People are busy shopping and wrapping presents for relatives and friends before Christmas Eve.
在圣诞节前夜,人们忙着为亲朋好友买东西、包礼物。
You'll come into this house over my dead body.
除非我死了,否则你休想进这所房子。
In the nineteenth century, a novelist would bring his story to a conclusion by presenting his readers with a series of coincidences -- most of them wildly improbable.