One Christmas Eve, Scrooge sees the ghost of Jacob Marley, his dead business partner.

一个圣诞夜，斯克鲁奇看到了他死去的商业伙伴雅各布·马利的鬼魂。

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President Herbert Hoover occupied the Secretary of Navy's office for a few months following a fire in the Oval Office on Christmas Eve 1929.

1929年圣诞节前夕，白宫总统办公室发生火灾，在这之前的几个月，赫伯特·胡佛总统一直在海军部长办公室工作。

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President Herbert Hoover occupied the Secretary of Navy's office for a few months following a fire in the Oval Office on Christmas Eve 1929.

1929年圣诞节前夕，白宫总统办公室发生火灾，在这之前的几个月，赫伯特·胡佛总统一直在海军部长办公室工作。

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He says that at the early service on Christmas Eve, he will begin with a question for the children.

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Connecticut Democrat Chris Dodd noted that Thursday's vote will be only the second time the Senate will be in session on Christmas Eve since 1963.

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But they can never engage in those efforts, if we do not do the job that I am confident we will do tomorrow morning at 7:00 AM on Christmas Eve, and that is to renew the American dream, and revive our middle class, and rebuild the foundation upon which future generations will stand.

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Near Christmas, volunteers put on a dazzling display of lights and, on the day before Christmas Eve, The Ship Inn cooks up a traditional dish of stargazy pie in honour of local lad Tom Bawcock, who supposedly ended a village famine by braving storms to land a bounty of fish.

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With due diligence continuing throughout the month, on Christmas Eve the south Londoners said that "work on the proposed acquisition of the club is continuing".

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It's the same reason you watched the NFL on Christmas Eve and the NBA on Christmas Day: money.

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