PRINCETON – This Christmas, like every Christmas, thousands of pilgrims and tourists will travel to the Middle East to celebrate the holiday in the land of the Bible. In Bethlehem, the birthplace of Jesus, the Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem will lead a midnight mass, while in Syria – where some Christians still speak dialects of Aramaic, similar to the ancient language Jesus spoke – celebrations are likely to be subdued, curtailed by the dangers of a war that is tearing the country apart.
普林斯顿—今年圣诞节和所有的圣诞节一样，成千上万的朝圣者和游客将前往中东，在《圣经》的土地上庆祝节日。在耶稣降生地伯利恒，耶路撒冷的拉丁宗主教（Latin Patriarch）将领衔子夜弥撒，而在叙利亚——那里的一些 基督徒仍说着类似于耶稣所说的古代语言的阿拉姆语——庆祝活动可能会有所抑制，受到正在分裂这个国家的战争的威胁。