In grade school we used to make paper-chains to count down the days till Christmas, I've not gone that far this year, but I am definitely counting down the days.
小学的时候，我们经常做圣诞节的倒计时卡片，这些年华早已不再，但我依然在倒计时。
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The room was festooned with gay paperchains.
房间里挂上了色彩鲜艳的花彩纸链条。
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Angels and fairy dolls were made from stiff paper and the blue packets in which cotton wool was sold were opened out and cut in to strips for paperchains.