感恩节英文介绍
感恩节是最地道、最美国式的美国国定假日中最密切相关,和早期美国历史。在1620年,殖民者或清教徒,他们航行到美国在五月花,寻找一个地方,他们可以有信仰自由。经过两个多月的暴风雨航行他们降落在在冰冷的十一月里,在现在的马萨诸塞州的普利茅斯。在第一个冬天,半数以上的移民都死于饥饿和传染病[1]。活下来的人在第一个春季开始播种。整个夏天他们都热切地盼望着丰收的到来,他们深知自己的生存以及未来殖民地的存在与否都将取决于即将到来的收成。最后,庄稼获得了意外的大丰收。所以人们决定选一个日子来感谢上帝的固定[2]。多年以后,美国总统宣布十一月的第四个星期四为感恩节每年。感恩节庆祝活动便定在这一天,直到今天。感恩节的庆祝形式多年来从未改变。丰盛的家宴计划未来几个月。人们在餐桌上可以吃到苹果、桔子、栗子、胡桃和葡萄。另外还备有葡萄干布丁、肉馅饼、各种其它食物以及红莓苔汁和鲜果汁。最好的和最具吸引力的其中有烤火鸡和南瓜馅饼。他们一直是最传统和最喜欢的食物在感恩节在整个年。人人都赞成感恩节大餐必须建立在烤火鸡塞满了面包酱[3]吸收它烤的美味汁液。但随着烹饪随家庭和地区的生命,它是不容易得到共识[4]的精确类型的填料为皇家鸟类。今天是感恩节,在每一个意义上说,一个国家一年一度的节日,所有的信仰和背景的美国人加入来表达他们的感谢今年的赏金,虔诚地祈求上帝继续赐福。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[1] 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[2]. 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[3] 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[4] 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[5] blessings.
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