我们要感谢一切，感谢微笑，感谢哭泣，感谢成功，感谢失败!感谢父母，感谢家庭，感谢老师，感谢伙伴，感谢所有爱我们和我们爱的人!值此感恩节，请不要吝啬我们的感谢，大声说出来吧!

　　Thanksgiving: AFavorite U.S. Holiday感恩节：美国人喜爱的节日

　　Thanksgiving in the United States is a timeto gather with family and friends, share a traditional meal and expressgratitude for the good things in life. It can also be a time of service toothers in the community.

　　美国每年一度的感恩节(Thanksgiving)是家人和朋友团聚的日子。在这一天，亲朋好友共进传统风格的大餐，对生活中的诸多恩惠表示感激。还有很多人为邻里社区的其他人提供服务。

　　Celebrated on the fourth Thursday in November, Thanksgiving traces its originsto harvest festivals. It was customary to express gratitude for a bountifulharvest in the cultures of both the Pilgrims who sailed from England in 1620and the Native Americans they encountered.

　　人们在每年11月的第四个星期四欢庆感恩节。庆祝传统的传统最早来自庆丰收的活动。不论是1620年从英国跨海来美洲的清教徒，还是他们遇见的美洲印第安人，他们对盛大的丰收表示感激都已形成习俗，成为各自文化的一部分。

　　A three-day harvest celebration held in 1621 in Plymouth Colony (part oftoday’s Massachusetts) is generally considered to be the first AmericanThanksgiving. The Pilgrims had arrived the year before on the ship TheMayflower. They hadn’t brought enough food, and it was too late to plant crops.Half the colony died during the winter of 1620–1621. In the spring, localWampanoag Indians taught the colonists how to grow corn (maize) and othercrops, and helped them master hunting and fishing. They also showed thecolonists how to cook cranberries, corn and squash.

　　1621年在普利茅斯殖民地(Plymouth Colony)，即今天的马萨诸塞州(Massachusetts)，人们举行为时三天的丰收庆典活动，一般被视为美洲的第一个感恩节。前一年，英国清教徒们乘坐“五月花”号(The Mayflower)抵达美洲大陆。他们没有带足够的粮食，重新种庄稼又太晚。1620至1621年冬，这个殖民地的一半人口不幸丧生。到了春天，当地万帕诺亚格部落的印第安人(Wampanoag Indians)向外来移民介绍如何种植玉米和其他庄稼，并帮助他们学会狩猎和捕鱼。他们还教他们如何烹制越橘、玉米和南瓜。

　　The colonists had bountiful crops in the fall of 1621. They invited theirWampanoag benefactors to feast on wild turkeys, duck, geese, fish andshellfish, corn, green vegetables and dried fruits. Wampanoag Chief Massasoitand his tribe brought venison.

　　1621年秋，移民们大获丰收。他们邀请当地万帕诺亚格部落的印第安族恩人前来就餐，食物十分丰盛，有野火鸡、鸭、鹅、鱼虾贝、玉米、蔬菜和干果。部落酋长马萨索伊特(Massasoit)及部落成员则带着鹿肉前来赴宴。

　　Harvest festivals became a regular affair in New England. Thanksgiving wasobserved on various dates in the states until 1863, when President AbrahamLincoln proclaimed the last Thursday in November as the national Thanksgivingholiday. In 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt signed a law fixing Thanksgivingon the fourth (not always the last) Thursday in November.

　　丰收庆典逐渐成为新英格兰地区的固定节日。1863年前，各州往往在不同日子庆祝感恩节。1863年，林肯(Abraham Lincoln)总统宣布11月份的最后一个星期四为全国感恩节。1941年，罗斯福(Franklin Roosevelt)总统签署法律，将感恩节确定为11月的第四个星期四(因为第四个星期四不一定总是最后一个星期四)。

　　感恩节双语美文：勿忘感恩

　　Thanksgiving Day is a jewel, to set in the hearts of honest men; but be careful that you do not take the day, and leave out the gratitude.

　　E.P. Powell (1833-1915); American Author And Journalist

　　感恩节犹如一颗宝石，安放在每个坦诚之人心中;但是你可别拿走了“宝石”，却忘了感恩。

　　感恩节，让我们一起来品味有关感恩的名言!

　　◆ 珍惜你所拥有的一切

　　In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.

　　Bertrand Russell (1872-1970); Philosopher, Mathematician

　　无论对于什么事情，我们都应该时常问问自己，那些我们长久以来想当然的东西真的理所应当吗。

　　We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.

　　Fredrick Koeing

　　我们几乎快要忘了，快乐并不在于得到了没有的东西，而在于知道自己拥有什么，并心存感激。

　　Who will tell whether one happy moment of love or the joy of breathing or walking on a bright morning and smelling the fresh air, is not worth all the suffering and effort which life implies.

　　Erich Seligmann Fromm (1900-1980); Social Psychologist

　　谁能说，一个充满爱的幸福时刻，或者在一个明媚的早晨散步、呼吸新鲜的空气所获得的快乐，就不值得用生命中的一切痛苦和努力去换取呢。

　　Reflect upon your present blessings, of which every man has plenty; not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

　　Charles Dickens (1812-1870); Novelist

　　思考当下的福祉，而非过去的不幸。福祉，每个人都有很多;不幸，每个人都有一点。

　　◆ 感恩让生活如此美好

　　To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant, to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch Heaven.

　　Johannes A. Gaertner (1912-1996); Art History Professor, Theologian, Poet

　　感恩于言是礼貌又令人愉悦的，感恩于行是慷慨又高尚的，而若能怀着一颗感之心去生活，那便是触到了天堂。

　　I still miss those I loved who are no longer with me but I find I am grateful for having loved them. The gratitude has finally conquered the loss.

　　Rita Mae Brown (born 1944); Writer

　　我依然很想念那些我曾经爱过但已不在身边的人，但是我感谢命里爱过他们。感恩之心最终战胜了丧失之痛。

　　In our daily lives, we must see that it is not happiness that makes us grateful, but the gratefulness that makes us happy.

　　Albert Clarke

　　在日常生活中，我们必须明白，我们不是因为快乐而感恩，而是因为感恩而快乐。

　　Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance, chaos to order, confusion to clarity. It can turn a meal into a feast, a house into a home, a stranger into a friend. Gratitude makes sense of our past, brings peace for today, and creates a vision for tomorrow.

　　Melodie Beattie - Motivational Author

　　感恩，会为你开启充实生活之门，使我们原本拥有的东西变得更多更充裕。它使抗拒变为接受，紊乱变为有序，困惑变为明晰。它让简单的饭菜成为盛宴，一个房间成为家庭，一个陌生人成为朋友。感恩，赋予过去以意义，赋予当下以平静，赋予未来以憧憬。

　　◆ 别忘了说一句感谢

　　The deepest craving of human nature is the need to be appreciated.

　　William James (1842-1910); Psychologist, Philosopher, Author

　　人类本性中最深切的渴求就是被他人赞赏。

　　When eating bamboo sprouts, remember the man who planted them.

　　Chinese Proverb

　　喝水不忘挖井人。

　　If the only prayer you ever say in your entire life is thank you, it will be enough.

　　Meister Eckhart [Johannes Eckhart] (1260-1328); Theologian, Mystic

　　如果你一生中唯一说过的祈祷是“谢谢”，那已经足够。

　　Let us be grateful to people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.

　　Marcel Proust (1871-1922); Novelist

　　让我们对带给自己快乐的人表示感激，他们就像可爱的园丁，让我们的灵魂之花尽情绽放。

　　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 (1821-1881); Philosopher, Poet, Critic

　　感谢是感恩的开始，感恩是感谢的升华。感谢可能止于言语，感恩却要付诸行动。