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关键词：Mother’s Day/母亲节，Anna Jarvis/安娜·贾维斯 |
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目录：Festival/节日 |
话题：
母亲节，母亲 |
类型：记叙文 |
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难度级别：初级 |
词汇要求：1000 |
文章词数：293 |
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After that, the second Sunday in May became a day
to express love for mothers throughout the country.
从那以后，五月的第二个星期天
就变成了举国上下向母亲们表达爱心的日子。 |
Mother’s Day
母亲节
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作者：VOA Specialenglish |
来源：http://www.unsv.com |
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日期：2008-5-6 |
责编：Emma |
Mother's Day is a special day
when people honor their mothers.
Writer Julia Ward Howe made the
first known suggestion for a Mother's Day in the United States.
That was in 1872. She said it should be a day to celebrate
peace. For several years, she held a yearly Mother's Day meeting
in June in Boston, Massachusetts.
Mother's Day as it is celebrated
now began with a woman named Anna Jarvis. She started a campaign
for a national observance in the early nineteen hundreds. She
wrote thousands of letters to public officials. She urged that
the second Sunday in May be declared Mother's Day.
In 1914, President Woodrow Wilson
and the United States Congress finally agreed. After that, the
second Sunday in May became a day to express love for mothers
throughout the country.
On Mother's Day, children of all
ages give their mothers special gifts. Popular gifts include
flowers, jewelry or candy. Children also do nice things so their
mother will not have to do any work on her special day. They
might bring her breakfast in bed or clean the house.
Children who no longer live at
home may travel to visit their mother on Mother's Day. The whole
family may go to a restaurant for a holiday meal. Children who
cannot be with their mother on the holiday send a special card
with a message of love. They also call their mother on the
telephone to wish her a happy day. Mother's Day is one of the
busiest days of the year for telephone use in the United States.
So, you may
ask, do people have a special day to honor their fathers? The
answer is yes. Father's Day is in June, but that is a story for
another time!
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