世界節(jié)假日博覽 第1期:新年

New Year’s Day is, of course, the first day of the year. It is a national holiday in most countries around the world. It is a time when families get together and celebrate with a meal. Many people make new plans for the rest of the year. These plans are called New Year resolutions. People decide to lose weight, get fit, stop smoking, study English every day or save lots of money. I think most people are serious about these plans on January 1st, but then forget about them before the end of the week. Then one year later, it’s New Year’s Day all over again and people make the same resolutions again. I guess people all around the world make the same kinds of plans. I guess they also break their resolutions at the same time.

自然，新年就是一年的第一天。在全世界的許多國家，新年都是一個全國性的假日。這一天家人團聚，享用美味佳肴，慶祝新年。在這一天許多人會制定全年計劃。人們把這些計劃稱之為新年愿望。人們下決心要減肥、健身、戒煙、每天學(xué)習(xí)英語或是存一大筆錢。我認為許多人在1月1號這一天都是以認真的太對對待這些計劃，但是還沒到周末就忘得一干二凈。一年之后又是新年，人們又制定了與前年一樣的計劃。我猜全世界的人們都會制定相同的計劃。我想他們也會同時忘掉自己的愿望。

One thing I like about New Year’s Day are the TV programmes that look back at the previous year. They are like highlights shows of the news. These always remind me how lucky I am because a lot of the news is about wars, famines, natural disasters, plane crashes and other terrible things. The shows also look back at the lives of people who died that year. Hmmm… That all sounds a bit depressing really. But then there are happier things, like the top sports and music stories. Another thing that happens on New Year’s Day is lists. The top ten movies of the year, the ten best sporting achievements of the year, etc. There is even a list for the top ten new English words of the year. Previous winners of this are the words ‘blog’ and ‘podcast’.

我對新年的喜愛原因之一，就是這一天的電視節(jié)目會回顧上一年的事件。比如重點新聞集錦。這些時時提醒著我，我有多幸運，因為這些新聞都是關(guān)于戰(zhàn)爭、饑荒、自然災(zāi)害、飛機失事以及其他災(zāi)難性事件。節(jié)目還會回顧這一年所離世的人們的生活。恩……這些聽起來確實令人感覺有些壓抑。但是這一年也有好事發(fā)生，例如頂級體育賽事和音樂故事。上一年的一些清單也會在新年這天產(chǎn)生，像年度十佳電影、年度十佳體育成就等。甚至還會有“年度新詞前十”。去年獲此殊榮的單詞是“博客”和“ 播客”。