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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.
　　感恩节是一个很首要的美国传统节日。每年11月的第四个周四，大家都会与家人、朋友欢聚一堂，下午3时摆布吃传统的火鸡大餐。该节日开端首要是为了庆祝一年的丰盈，与我国的中秋节有些类似。
　　This American tradition started in 1621 before the United States of America was established. It was a huge celebration for a hard-earned harvest in the first year after the first group of immigrants arriving in the New World.
　　这个美国传统节日始于1621年，美国建立曾经。来源于美洲新内地第一批移民为庆祝到达新内地以后第一年的辛苦劳动取得的丰盈而举办的盛大宴会。
　　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.
　　1620年9月6日，一批不胜忍耐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动身，开端了到美洲新内地的飞行。这批清教徒大约有100人。
　　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.
　　清教徒们在海上飞行了66天，总算在当年的11月到达美洲新内地。他们开端在本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。
　　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.
　　1620年那个冰冷而绵长的冬季，他们在这块土地上费尽含辛茹苦地劳动着，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端自动协助他们。部落里的大家教这些清教徒如何播种土地，如何种植玉米、大豆、南瓜以及别的农作物。
　　In late September 1621, the Pilgrims were pleased with their great harvest. To celebrate their first harvest, the Pilgrims wanted to thank God and the Native Indian. They invited Squanto and the entire Wampanoag tribe to celebrate together in a shared feast.
　　1621年9月底，他们的勤劳劳动总算取得大丰盈，清教徒们欢天喜地。为了庆祝这首次来之不易的大丰盈，他们想要好好谢谢一下上帝和本地的印第安人，便约请Squanto及其瓦帕浓部落参与他们的庆祝盛宴。
　　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 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 become the first generation of settlers in this new land holding so much promise.
　　这首次的丰盈庆祝盛宴听说从三天一向延长到一个星期。关于清教徒们来说，这的确是一段享用高兴、愉悦、友谊的时刻。他们和仁慈的本地印第安人一同预备了庆祝盛宴，在荒野中盖了房子，并为即将来临的绵长冬季贮存了充足的食物。所以，在这块充满希望、神往和神往的新内地上，清教徒们便成了第一代移民定居者。
　　Fromthen on, Thanksgiving became a holiday for celebrating the harvest in the New World, dates varied from October to November each year over the next 150 years.
　　从那以后的150多年里，感恩节便变成一个庆祝新内地丰盈的固定节日，在每年的10月或11月举办庆祝活动。
　　The first National Thanksgiving was declared by the Continental Congress in 1777. On October 3, 1789, President George Washington declared that the people of the United States should observe "a day of public thanksgiving and prayer" on Thursday, 26 November. In 1941, a Congressional Joint Resolution set the fourth Thursday of November as a national holiday for Thanksgiving.
　　1777年，美国内地会议首次宣告感恩节为全国性节日。1789年10月3日，美国总统乔治·华盛顿召唤美国人民把当年的11月26日(周四)看作“一个感恩、祈求的公开纪念日”。1941年，一项国会联合抉择把感恩节定为全国性节日，时刻定在每年11月的第四个周四。