Christmas is a largely celebrated holiday in Brazil, since we are the biggest catholic country in the world. The official celebration takes place from the 24th to the 25th of December (the famous Christmas Eve) where the whole family gets together.
在巴西圣诞节是一个非常重要的节日，巴西是世界上最大的天主教国家之一，从12月24号开始到12月25号（著名的圣诞夜），整个家族都要聚集在一起庆祝这个节日。
We start to enjoy Christmas holidays much time before the actual date,
preparing everything for the big night: the menu of the dinner, deciding who
is going to dress like Santa, making sure to have a nice house decoration etc.
我们开始庆祝圣诞节要比12月24号还要早，在那个夜晚之前我们要准备好所有的事情:晚饭的菜单，决定由谁来扮成圣诞老人，确保我们的屋子装扮得非常漂亮。

On the 24th is already holidays and people stay the whole day cooking, wrapping gifts and writing cards.Later, around 5 pm,thewhole family reunite usually in the grandparent’s house,and exchange gifts,pray, have dinner.The young ones go to sleeparound 10pm, or stay wakeup amazed with their news toys, and the rest of the family have dinner together around12 pm is always a long and happy night with people talking, drinking, celebrating.
24号这天节日就开始了，人们要在厨房忙乎一天，包装礼物，写贺卡。在之后的下午5点左右，整个家族一般都要聚集在祖父母的家里，大家交换礼物、一起祈 祷、一起吃晚餐。孩子们或者10点左右就睡了，或者是很兴奋地玩自己的新玩具。其他人要一直吃到夜里12点，大家一遍聊天一遍吃饭喝酒，一起庆祝这个漫长 而欢快的夜晚。
The Christmas tradition is extended to the day after- 25th of December-when normally everybody wakes up late because of the previous night, and wants a relaxing day to recover.Since is summer during this holidays we often have barbecue and a relaxed day in the pool with the family or just a casual lunch together.
圣诞节的惯例是，节日要继续延伸到接下来的那天，也就是12月25号，由于前一天晚上的庆祝，每个人第二天都起得很晚，大家需要一天的时间来恢复一下。虽然在巴西圣诞节是在夏天过的，但是我们还是会做户外烧烤，全家在泳池里放松一天，或者是随便吃一顿午饭。

Although in recent years is becoming more and more common to travel
just parents and sons on this holiday, Christmas still have a really strong role
bonding the whole family at least this day of the year.
尽管现在全家人旅行度过圣诞节变得越来越普遍，圣诞节依然是一个让全家在这一天团聚的重要日子。