每到春節，最招人喜歡的就是收紅包了，捧着紅包喜氣洋洋的心情是小編對年節最深刻的記憶之一。如今互聯網發展迅速，社交平台也迎來了一波又一波的紅包大戰。我們該如何用英語講述這幾種種紅包呢？

常見的紅包翻譯是red envelope、red packet，壓歲錢（紅包）則是lucky money或gift money。

如：今年春節，我收了很多紅包，我很高興。

Spring Festival this year, I received a lot of red packets, I am very happy.

在春節那天，孩子們都會從自己的父母和爺爺奶奶那裡收到包着紅包的壓歲錢。

On New Year's Day the children receive gifts of money in red envelopes from their parents and grandparents.

Wish you a fortune! Give me a red packet!恭喜發财，紅包拿來！

Every year on Spring Festival, my parents give me a red envelope.每年的春節，我的父母都會給我一個紅包。

Instead of a red envelope at Chinese New Year, he now got a year-end bonus.農曆年他沒有拿到紅包，現在反而拿到了年終獎金。

那麼互聯網中的電子紅包就是electronic red envelope，紅包大戰就是red-envelope war/fight, battle of the red envelopes。

而讓紅包再成熱潮的是微信推出的“紅包功能”，讓用戶通過電子支付發紅包。

"Red envelope" fever has swept the country when WeChat, China's popular mobile chat app, rolled out a program allowing users to send cash through electronic payments.

這個功能的衍生玩法“紅包抽獎”red envelope lucky draw，又稱“搶紅包”，更是大受歡迎，因為它是由程序來随機發錢allocate the money randomly，增加了許多趣味性。

The 'grouped' red envelope can then be posted to a group chat and the application randomly assigns the amount in each envelope to each recipient.

搶紅包通常用snatch/grab red envelopes來表示，用snatch或grab來體現微信群中搶紅包的興奮和喜悅，比較貼切和生動。