感恩節(jié)的由來(lái)英文版
Thanksgiving Day is the most truly American of the national Holidays in the United States and is most closely connected with the earliest history of the country.
In 1620, the settlers, or Pilgrims, they sailed to America on the May flower, seeking a place where they could have freedom of worship. After a tempestuous two-month voyage they landed at in icy November, what is now Plymouth, Massachusetts.During their first winter, over half of the settlers died of starvation or epidemics. Those who survived began sowing in the first spring.
All summer long they waited for the harvests with great anxiety, knowing that their lives and the future existence of the colony depended on the coming harvest. Finally the fields produced a yield rich beyond expectations. And therefore it was decided that a day of thanksgiving to the Lord be fixed . Years later, President of the United States proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day every year. The celebration of Thanksgiving Day has been observed on that date until today.
The pattern of the Thanksgiving celebration has never changed through the years. The big family dinner is planned months ahead. On the dinner table, people will find apples, oranges, chestnuts, walnuts and grapes. There will be plum pudding, mince pie, other varieties of food and cranberry juice and squash. The best and most attractive among them are roast turkey and pumpkin pie. They have been the most traditional and favorite food on Thanksgiving Day throughout the years.
Everyone agrees the dinner must be built around roast turkey stuffed with a bread dressing to absorb the tasty juices as it roasts. But as cooking varies with families and with the regions where one lives, it is not easy to get a consensus on the precise kind of stuffing for the royal bird.
Thanksgiving today is, in every sense, a national annual holiday on which Americans of all faiths and backgrounds join in to express their thanks for the year' s bounty and reverently ask for continued blessings.
感恩節(jié)是美國(guó)國(guó)定假日中最地道、最美國(guó)式的節(jié)日,美國(guó)和最最早的歷史緊密相連。
在1620年,殖民者或朝圣者,五月的花他們航行到美國(guó),尋求宗教自由的地方。之后他們?cè)诤Ｉ项嶔ふ垓v了兩個(gè)落終于在酷寒的十一月里,現(xiàn)在的普利茅斯,馬薩諸塞。在他們的第一個(gè)冬天,半數(shù)以上的移民死于饑餓和傳染病。活下來(lái)的人在第一個(gè)春季開(kāi)始播種。
整個(gè)夏天他們都熱切地等待著豐收的焦慮,知道他們的生活和未來(lái)的殖民地的存在與否都將取決于即將到來(lái)的收成。最后生成的區(qū)域產(chǎn)量豐富超出預(yù)期。因此我們決定向耶和華的感恩節(jié)是固定的。多年以后,美國(guó)總統(tǒng)宣布每年十一月的第四個(gè)星期四為感恩節(jié)。感恩節(jié)慶祝活動(dòng)便定在這一天,直到如今。
感恩節(jié)的慶祝形式多年來(lái)從未改變。未來(lái)幾個(gè)月大家庭晚餐計(jì)劃。在餐桌上,人們會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)蘋果、桔子、栗子、胡桃和葡萄。會(huì)有葡萄干布丁、肉餡餅、其他種類的食物和蔓越莓汁和南瓜。最好的和最具吸引力的是烤火雞和南瓜餡餅。他們一直是最傳統(tǒng)和最喜歡的食物在感恩節(jié)。
每個(gè)人都同意晚餐必須建立在烤火雞塞滿了面包醬吸收烤肉美味的果汁。但隨著烹飪隨家庭和地區(qū)一個(gè)生命,是不容易得到共識(shí)的精確的填料為皇家鳥(niǎo)。
今天是感恩節(jié),在每一個(gè)意義上說(shuō),一個(gè)國(guó)家的年度假期的各種信仰和背景的美國(guó)人加入來(lái)表達(dá)他們的感謝今年的賞金,虔誠(chéng)地要求繼續(xù)祝福。