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.
感恩节是美国国定假日中最地道、最美国式的节日,美国和最最早的历史紧密相连。
在1620年,殖民者或朝圣者,五月的花他们航行到美国,寻求宗教自由的地方。之后他们在海上颠簸折腾了两个落终于在酷寒的十一月里,现在的普利茅斯,马萨诸塞。在他们的第一个冬天,半数以上的.移民死于饥饿和传染病。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等待着丰收的焦虑,知道他们的生活和未来的殖民地的存在与否都将取决于即将到来的收成。最后生成的区域产量丰富超出预期。因此我们决定向耶和华的感恩节是固定的。多年以后,美国总统宣布每年十一月的第四个星期四为感恩节。感恩节庆祝活动便定在这一天,直到如今。
感恩节的庆祝形式多年来从未改变。未来几个月大家庭晚餐计划。在餐桌上,人们会发现苹果、桔子、栗子、胡桃和葡萄。会有葡萄干布丁、肉馅饼、其他种类的食物和蔓越莓汁和南瓜。最好的和最具吸引力的是烤火鸡和南瓜馅饼。他们一直是最传统和最喜欢的食物在感恩节。
每个人都同意晚餐必须建立在烤火鸡塞满了面包酱吸收烤肉美味的果汁。但随着烹饪随家庭和地区一个生命,是不容易得到共识的精确的填料为皇家鸟。
今天是感恩节,在每一个意义上说,一个国家的年度假期的各种信仰和背景的美国人加入来表达他们的感谢今年的赏金,虔诚地要求继续祝福。
the thankful great universe provides the environment of existence for us and give us sunlight, air, water and everything in keeping with we existence of space, bring storm to let us accept to toughen for us, bring to us mysterious let us look for.
the thankful parents give us the life, make us feel the merriment of the human life, feel the genuine feeling of the human life, feel the comity of the human life, feel happiness of the human life, also feel hardships and pain and sufferings of the human life!
the thankful teacher works with diligence and without fatigue everyday of teach, give us knowledge ability, put on the wing which flies toward the ideal for us.
the thankful classmate and friend grows up road of, let i no longer standing alone in the itinerary of life; the with gratitude is frustrated and let us become in a time the failure stronger.
“what if you gave someone a gift, and they neglected to thank you for it – would you be likely to give them another? life is the same way. in order to attract more of the blessings that life has to offer, you must truly appreciate what you already have.” — ralph marston
"假设你给别人一份礼物，如果他们忘了感谢你，你还会给予他们其他礼物吗?人生亦是同一道理。为了得到更多的福乐，你必须对自己所拥有的感恩。”
“thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. thankfulness may consist merely of words. gratitude is shown in acts.” — henri frederic amiel
"感恩始于感谢之心，谢意正好完成了感恩。感恩也许只是一堆言语文字，感谢却要以行动去表逹。”
it isn’t what you have in your pocket that makes you thankful, but what you have in your heart.
令你感恩的，不是你口袋
“to educate yourself for the feeling of gratitude means to take nothing for granted, but to always seek out and value the kind that will stand behind the action. nothing that is done for you is a matter of course. everything originates in a will for the good, which is directed at you. train yourself never to put off the word or action for the expression of gratitude.” — albert schweitzer
"学习感恩即是要明白没有东西是理所当然的，经常寻求和重视行动的背后。没有东西是奉旨的，一切都源于为你好。必须训练自己不要延迟表达谢意。”
“to live a life of gratitude is to open our eyes to the countless ways in which we are supported by the world around us. such a life provides less space for our suffering because our attention is more balanced. we are more often occupied with noticing what we are given, thanking those who have helped us, and repaying the world in some concrete way for what we are receiving.” — gregg krech
"感恩之心有无数的方法打开我们的`眼睛，让我们看清周围的世界是多麽支持我们的。感恩的生活容不下痛楚，因为我们的注意力会集中在我们所拥有的，感谢身边帮忙过我们的人，并以实际行动回馈。”
“be thankful for what you have; you’ll end up having more. if you concentrate on what you don’t have, you will never, ever have enough.” — oprah winfrey
"如你对自己所拥有的感恩，你将会得到更多。但如果你专注于自己所没有的东西，那你永远都不会满足。”
when i started counting my blessings, my whole life turned around.” — willie nelson
"当我开始计算我所拥有的福乐，我的整个生命立即给扭转过来。”
“you simply will not be the same person two months from now after consciously giving thanks each day for the abundance that exists in your life. and you will have set in motion an ancient spiritual law: the more you have and are grateful for, the more will be given you.” — sarah ban breathnach
“若你从今起每天自觉地对生活的种种感恩，两个月后，你将会是一个不同的人。你会启动了一个古老的精神定律：你感谢得愈多，你将得到更加多。”
“gratitude is the inward feeling of kindness received. thankfulness is the natural impulse to express that feeling. thanksgiving is the following of that impulse.” — henry van dyke
"谢意是受到恩惠后的内心感觉，感恩是渴望表达这感觉的自然反应，感恩节就是为这反应要生的。”
“if a fellow isn’t thankful for what he’s got, he isn’t likely to be thankful for what he’s going to get.” — frank a. clark
"如果一个家伙不为所拥有的感恩，他不可能会为自己将来所拥有的感恩。”
“you won’t be happy with more until you’re happy with what you’ve got.” — viki king
"若你对现在拥有的不感到高兴，你将不会因为得到更多而感到快乐。”
“i thank god for my handicaps, for, through them, i have found myself, my work, and my god.” — helen keller
"我感激上帝赐我残缺。透过伤残，我找到自己、我的工作、我的主宰。”— 海伦凯勒
difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping stones to greater experience. perhaps someday you will be thankful for some temporary failure in a particular direction. when one door closes, another always opens.
困难是好景的机遇，是重任的垫脚石。也许有一天你会感谢一些暂时性的错败，当一扇门关闭时，一定会有另一扇门打开。
“one of life’s gifts is that each of us, no matter how tired and downtrodden, finds reasons for thankfulness.” — j. robert moskin
"生命赋予我们每个人能力，无论多麽疲倦或被践踏过，我们都可以找到感恩的理由。”
相反，在施予的时候，不要介怀对方感恩与否。
“blessed are those who give without remembering. and blessed are those who take without forgetting.” — bernard meltzer
幸福的是那些施予而又不记著的人;有福的是那些受恩而又不忘记的人。
“a thankful heart is not only the greatest virtue, but the parent of all other virtues.” — cicero
"感恩不单是美德，更是美德之母。”
“develop an attitude of gratitude, and give thanks for everything that happens to you, knowing that every step forward is a step toward achieving something bigger and better than your current situation.” — brian tracy
"培养感恩之心，答谢身边所有。这样的话，每一步都会是迈向更佳未来的一步。”
“if you concentrate on finding whatever is good in every situation, you will discover that your life will suddenly be filled with gratitude, a feeling that nurtures the soul.” — rabbi harold kushner
如果在每一件事情上你能够集中注意力寻找好的，那麽你会突然发现你的生活充满欣慰感激——一种培养心灵的感觉。
