世界節(jié)假日博覽 第116期:父親節(jié)

Father's Day is celebrated all around the world to say thank you to dads. An old English proverb tells how important fathers are. It says: “A father is more than a hundred schoolmasters.” Many of us perhaps think our father is even more important. There is no age limit for the person saying thank you, nor for the dad. There is no universal date when every country celebrates Father’s Day. In many countries it is on the third Sunday in June. Most fathers receive presents and cards and perhaps even a special dinner. The day has a special punctuation point. The apostrophe is placed before the 's’. This means we all think about our own father. Of course, if the apostrophe was placed after the 's’, we would be honouring all the fathers in the world.

父親節(jié)為全球性節(jié)日，我們要在這天向爸爸們說聲謝謝。一句英語格言告訴了我們父親的重要意義。它稱：“父親勝過師長百位。”許多人或許認為父親的地位更加重要。所有人都能夠?qū)λ苏f聲謝謝，沒有年齡限制，更不要說對爸爸說了。全球父親節(jié)日并不固定。在許多國家，每年6月的第3個周日為父親節(jié)。多數(shù)父親會收到禮物，賀卡，甚至是一頓特殊的晚餐。該節(jié)日的標(biāo)點符號極為特殊。撇號放在了“s”之前。旨在感謝自己的父親。如果撇號放在“s”之后，那么我們會紀念全天下的父親。


Father’s Day historians believe the day started in Washington state in the USA. A lady called Sonora Dodd was sitting in church one Sunday in 1909, listening to a sermon on Mother’s Day. She decided it was only fair to also have a day for fathers. In 1910, she arranged a special church service to say thank you for own father. The idea took off very slowly. U.S. Presidents. from Calvin Coolidge in 1926 to Richard Nixon in 1972, supported the idea. Nixon started the permanent official Father's Day in June, 1972. Today it is a major holiday. It has become extremely commercialized, which is good and bad. The shops are so full of Father’s Day stuff, it is almost impossible to forget when the day is.

相關(guān)歷史學(xué)家認為，該節(jié)日起源于美國華盛頓州。1909年某個周日，一位名叫索諾拉·多德的女士坐在教堂里，聆聽母親節(jié)布道。她認為人們也應(yīng)該清楚父親節(jié)。1910年，她安排了一次特殊的禮拜儀式，向自己的父親說聲謝謝。該項提議起步緩慢。從1926年的卡爾文·庫利奇總統(tǒng)，到1972年的尼克松總統(tǒng)，他們均支持設(shè)立該節(jié)日。1972年6月，尼克松將父親節(jié)定為官方節(jié)日。如今，父親節(jié)成為了我們的主要節(jié)日。但卻商業(yè)化濃重，這既是好事又是壞事。商店滿是父親節(jié)禮物，你想忘記也幾乎不可能。