Once upon a time， a man punished（懲罰） his 5-year-old daughter for using up the family’s only roll of expensive gold wrapping paper（包裝紙）. Money was tight（拮據(jù)的）， and he became even more upset on Christmas Eve when he saw that the child had pasted（粘貼） the gold paper so as to decorate a shoebox to put under the Christmas tree.

從前，一個人懲罰了他5歲的女兒，因為她把家里僅剩的一卷貴重的金色包裝紙用了。當(dāng)時家里經(jīng)濟拮據(jù)，在圣誕節(jié)前夜，這位父親看見他女兒把那些金紙貼在一個鞋盒上放在圣誕樹下，這使得他更加沮喪。

Nevertheless（然而）， the next morning the little girl， filled with excitement， brought the gift box to her father and said， “This is for you， Daddy！” As he opened the box， the father was embarrassed （尷尬的） at his earlier overreaction （過度反應(yīng)）. But when he opened it， he found it was empty and again his anger flared（燃燒）. “Don’t you know， young lady？” he said harshly （嚴(yán)厲地）， “when you give someone a present， there’s supposed to be something inside the package！”

然而，第二天早上，小女孩滿心歡喜地把禮物盒拿給爸爸，并說道：“爸爸，這是給你的禮物！”父親開啟著盒子，并為自己曾經(jīng)的過激感到羞愧。但當(dāng)他打開盒子的時候，他發(fā)現(xiàn)里面是空的，他的憤怒又一次燃燒起來?！半y道你不知道嗎，小姐？”他嚴(yán)厲地說，“當(dāng)你送給別人一份禮物的時候，包裝里面應(yīng)該要放東西的！”

The little girl looked up at him with tears rolling from her eyes and said：“Daddy， it’s not empty. I blew kisses into it until it was all full.” The father was crushed. He fell on his knees and put his arms around his precious little girl. He begged her to forgive him for his unnecessary anger.

小女孩抬頭看著他，淚水從她眼睛里滾落下來，她說：“爸爸，盒子不是空的。我放了好多吻在里面一直到它盛滿?！备赣H怔住了，心都要碎了，他跪下來，用雙臂攬著他的寶貝女兒，乞求她原諒他那些不必要的憤怒。

An accident took the life of the child only a short time later. It is told that the father kept that little gold box by his bed for all the years of his life. Whenever he was discouraged（灰心的） or faced difficult problems， he would open the box， take out an imaginary （想象中的） kiss， and remember the love of his beautiful child.

沒過多長時間，一場車禍奪去了這個小女孩的生命。據(jù)說那位父親一生都把那個金色的小盒子放在自己的床邊。當(dāng)他感覺灰心或是面對棘手的問題時，他就會打開這個盒子，取出一個想象中的吻，記起他美麗的小女兒放在那里的愛。