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1、感恩节材料Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in Canada and the United States. Traditionally, it is a time to give thanks for the harvest and express gratitude in general. While perhaps religious in origin, Thanksgiving is now primarily identified as a secular世俗的, 现世的, 不朽的,非宗教的hol

2、iday.The date and location of the first Thanksgiving celebration is a topic of modest contention争论, 争辩, 争夺, 论点. The traditional first Thanksgiving is the celebration that occurred at the site of Plymouth Plantation, in 1621. The Plymouth celebration occurred early in the history of what would become

3、 one of the original thirteen colonies that became the United States. The celebration became an important part of the American myth by the 1800s.citation needed This Thanksgiving, modeled after celebrations that were commonplace in contemporary Europe, is generally regarded as Americas first. Elemen

4、tary school teacher Robyn Gioia has argued that the earliest attested thanksgiving celebration in what is now the United States was celebrated by the Spanish on September 8, 1565 in what is now Saint Augustine, Florida. Today, Thanksgiving is celebrated on the second Monday of October in Canada and

5、on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States. Thanksgiving dinner is held on this day, usually as a gathering of family members and friends. 感恩节的由来要一直追溯到美国历史的发端。1620年，著名的“五月花”号船满载不堪忍受英国国内宗教迫害的清教徒102人到达美洲。1620年和1621年之交的冬天，他们遇到了难以想象的困难，处在饥寒交迫之中，冬天过去时，活下来的移民只有50来人。这时，心地善良的印第安人给移民送来了生活必需品，还特地

6、派人教他们怎样狩猎、捕鱼和种植玉米、南瓜。在印第安人的帮助下，移民们终于获得了丰收，在欢庆丰收的日子，按照宗教传统习俗，移民规定了感谢上帝的日子，并决定为感谢印第安人的真诚帮助，邀请他们一同庆祝节日。The European Origins of Thanksgiving许多人认为感恩节是北美的节日，但在更早之前的西欧社会，人们就已经举办丰收庆典，感谢富饶大自然给予的恩赐。当欧洲人移民到新大陆后，也带来了这一传统习俗。Hello, Im Matt Cail and on behalf of Expert Village Im here today to tell you all about t

7、he history of Thanksgiving. While people think of Thanksgiving as a North American holiday, one that goes back to the time of the earlier European settlers in North America. The fact is that Thanksgivings roots actually go back much further. Thanksgivings roots go actually across the Atlantic back i

8、nto Europe which is where a lot of the harvest celebrations originated at least in terms of European Western society. You can find a lot of these harvest celebrations actually worldwide. But, particularly around in Europe and just where you had like the cycles. And Europe definitely oscillatesbetwee

9、n warm and cold. There are very strong definite seasons and you have the harvest period when you brought in all the crops that you had planted throughout the season, toiledover and you are getting ready to ride out the winter and then you have the harvest. Often times people would celebrate by havin

10、g a feast during this time. And, places like Northern France and England were no exception to this. And, many of these groups would get together and there would be, I mean these feasts would last over a period of days not just one meal. And as we start actually entering into a period of European mig

11、ration to the new world a lot of these folks brought their customs with them. The Origin of Thanksgiving Day Parades化妆游行是感恩节一大习俗，最初是来自世界各地的移民们希望参与和庆祝节日、新家的一种方式。街上挂着各种大横幅，人们穿着各种服饰聚集在一起唱歌跳舞、表演艺术手艺等。Thanksgiving History of Pardoning the National Turkey每年一度的总统放生火鸡仪式始于1947年杜鲁门总统当政时期。被选中的火鸡可以在农场里自然地生老病死，随

12、心所欲地享受它的生活，没选中的只能成为白宫美味的晚餐了。那么，在美国，人们过感恩节都有哪些风俗习惯呢？Thankss giving is an annual one-day holiday to give thanks, traditionally to god, for the things one has at the close of the harvest season.感恩节是每年一次，传统意义上的感恩节，是指人们在临近丰收时对上帝的感恩之情。In the United States, certain kinds of food are traditionally served at

13、 thanksgiving meals. Turkey is usually the featured item on any thanksgiving feast table.在美国，感恩节人们会想用一些特色食物，比如说，火鸡就是最有代表性的食物。Mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet potatoes, cranberry sauce, Indian corn, other fall vegetables, and pumpkin pie are commonly associated with thanksgiving dinner.感恩节晚餐基本以土豆泥肉汤、番薯、酸果曼沙司，印第安玉米以及其他秋季时令蔬菜为主，当然还有还有美味的南瓜饼。