Thanksgiving Day
感恩节
Thanksgiving Day is a national holiday celebrated primarily in the United States and Canada as a day of giving thanks for the blessing of the harvest and of the preceding year. It is celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November in the United States and on the second Monday of October in Canada. Several other places around the world observe similar celebrations. Thanksgiving has its historical roots in religious and cultural traditions, and has long been celebrated in a secular manner as well.
感恩节是一个主要在美国或加拿大庆祝的法定假日，人们在这一天表达对丰收的感恩和对上一年度的感谢。美国的感恩节是11月的第4个星期四，而加拿大的感恩节是10月的第2个星期一。世界其他地区也有类似的庆祝节日。感恩节起源于宗教和文化传统，长期以来也一直以一种世俗的方式庆祝。
In the United States, the modern Thanksgiving holiday tradition is commonly, but not universally, traced to a poorly documented 1621 celebration at Plymouth in present-day Massachusetts. The 1621 Plymouth feast and thanksgiving was prompted by a good harvest. Pilgrims and Puritans who began emigrating from England in the 1620s and 1630s carried the tradition of Days of Fasting and Days of Thanksgiving with them to New England. Several days of Thanksgiving were held in early New England history that have been identified as the “First Thanksgiving”, including Pilgrim holidays in Plymouth in 1621 and 1623, and a Puritan holiday in Boston in 1631. There are also holidays similar to Thanksgiving Day in other countries.
在美国，现代的感恩节传统通常(而非全部)可追溯到鲜有文献记载的1621年感恩节庆祝活动，它在普利茅斯即今天的马萨诸塞州举行。1621年普利茅斯盛宴和感恩活动源于一次大丰收。17世纪20年代和30年代从英国移民过来的新教徒和清教徒们把他们的禁食传统和感恩传统也带到了新英格兰。新英格兰早期历史上有几个感恩日都被确认为“第一个感恩节”，包括1621年和1623年普利茅斯的几个新教徒节日和1631年波士顿的一个清教徒节日。在世界其他国家也有类似感恩节的节日。
