感恩节英文课件-PPT

Mayflower ['mei,flauə] 五月花号 → （英国清教徒首次去北美殖民地所乘之船名）
1620年9月6日，一批不堪忍受国内宗教迫害的英国清 教徒乘坐“五月花”号从英格兰德文郡普利茅斯出发， 开始了到美洲新大陆的航行。这批清教徒大约有100 人。
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• The Pilgrims sailed sixty-six days, arrived in the New World in November of the same year. They first settled in a cornfield abandoned by Native Indians and named it Plymouth Plantation.
become the first generation of settlers in this new land
这第ho一ldi次ng的so丰mu收ch庆pr祝omi盛se宴. 据说从三天一直延
长到一个星期。对于清教徒们来说，这的确
是一段享受高兴、愉悦、友谊的时间。他们
和善良的当地印第安人一起准备了庆祝盛宴，
在荒野中盖了房子，并为即将来临的漫长冬
天储存了充足的食物。于是，在这块充满希
望、憧憬和向往的新大陆上，清教徒们便成
了第代移民定居者。
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The custom of the Thanksgiving
感恩节是西方国家的传统节日(traditional festival)，届时放假三天，合家团聚(All the family members get together)。感恩节的食品 富有传统特色。在节日宴会上，有一道必不可少 的特色名菜(specialty)——“烤鸡”(turkey)。 火鸡是感恩节 的传统主菜，通常是把火鸡肚子 里塞上各种调料和拌好的食品，然后整只烤出， 由男主人用刀切成薄片分给大家。此外，感恩节 的传统食品还有甜山芋(sweet potato )、玉蜀 黍(maize )、南 瓜饼(pumpkin cake)、红莓苔 子果酱(cranberry jam)等。
1620年那个寒冷而漫长的冬天，他们在这块土地上 费尽千辛万苦地劳作着，困难重重，还遭遇了一场 灾难性的瘟疫，一半人在这场瘟疫中死去。到了 1621年的春天，一个名叫Squanto的印第安英雄率 其瓦帕浓部落开始主动帮助他们。部落里的人们教 这些清教徒怎样耕种土地，怎样种植玉米、大豆、 南瓜以及其他农作物。
感恩节是一个很重要的美国传统节日。每年11 月的第四个星期四，人们都会与家人、朋友欢 聚一堂，下午3时左右吃传统的火鸡大餐。该节 日最初主要是为了庆祝一年的丰收，与中国的 中秋节有些相似。
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Origin Of Thanksgiving Day
• On September 6, 1620, the Mayflower ship set sail from Plymouth, Devon, England, taking all the English Pilgrims to the New World. The English Pilgrims numbered about a hundred people, and left England to escape religious persecution.
friendly treaty with the Native American Indians, built houses
in the wilderness, and raised sufficient crops to feed
themselves for the upcoming long winter. The Pilgrims had
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what is thanksgiving day?
• Thanksgiving Day is a very important traditional holiday in America. On the fourth Thursday of each November, families and friends gather together for the occasion to celebrate with a traditional turkey dinner, usually in the mid-afternoon. Thanksgiving Day originated as a celebration of the year's harvest and is similar to the Mid-Autumn Festival in China.
清教徒们在海上航行了66天，终于在当年的 11月到达美洲新大陆。他们最初在当地印第 安人废弃的一个玉米地z安顿下来，并把它 命名为普利茅斯种植园。
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• They worked on the land with much difficulty and were beset by a devastating plague in which half of the Pilgrim died in the long winter of 1620. In the spring of 1621，an Indian brave named Squanto and her Wampanoag tribe came to their help.The tribe taught the Pilgrims how to work the earth and plant corn，beans，pumpkins，squash and other crops.
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• The first Thanksgiving dinner is said to have lasted from
three days to one week.It was indeed a time of happiness,
fellowship and rejoicing for the Pilgrims. They arranged a