holiday和vocation

holiday和vocation

第一篇：holiday和vocation

holiday: 假日

vacation：假期

a、对于英国人或者澳大利亚人来说，“假日”的意思等同于“假期”（尽管他们很少用“假期”）

b、如果你是美国人，“假日”是指一个特殊的日子，好像圣诞节，而“假期”是指你会花两到三周的时间和你的家人出去旅行。

holiday n.一般表示时间可长可短的假期，为可数名词。与季节连用时多用复数；与数词连用时只表示次数，不表示日期。例如： We

have had three holidays since the beginning of the year.但三天的假期应说：a holiday of three days或a three days’ holiday。vacation n.一般表示比较长的假期，多指大学的假期、法庭的休庭期。至于寒、暑假，英国人喜欢用：summer/winter holidays，美国人喜欢用：summer/winter vacation，区别不大。例如：

We spent our summer holidays/vacation in the countryside

this Dad is now on holiday/vacation in Beijing.(表示状态)

Every year, we go to the island for holiday/vacation.(表示目的)

(holiday/vacation用单数，前面也不加冠词，但可用on/for

one’s holidays)

vacationv 休假； n（地方的）腾出、（职位的）辞去，例如：

Let’s vacation in Hawaii next month.(《英汉多功能词典》 外研社/建宏出版社)

The vacation of the housewas demanded.(《当代英语搭配词典》)

第二篇：holiday

感恩节的由来及习俗

感恩节（Thanksgiving Day）是美国和加拿大共有的节日，由美国人民独创，原 意是为了感谢上天赐予的好收成。在美国，自19

而加拿大与美国的感恩节时间不同，10月第二个星期一。像中国的春节一样，在这一天，成千上万的人们不管多忙，都要和自己的家人团聚。加拿大的感恩节则

起始于1879年，是在每年10月第二个星期一，与美国的哥伦布日相同。

1.集体庆祝

初时感恩节没有固定日期，由各州临时决定，直到美国独立后，感恩节才成为全国性的节日。

每逢感恩节这一天，美国举国上下热闹非常，基督徒按照习俗前往教堂做感恩祈祷，城市乡镇到处都有化装游行、戏剧表演或体育比赛等。分别了一年的亲人们也会从天南海北归来，一家人团圆，品尝以“火鸡”为主的感恩节美食。

美国当地最著名的庆典则是从1924年开始的梅西百货感恩节游行（Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade）。

每逢感恩节这一天，美国举国上下热闹非凡，人们按照习俗前往教堂做感恩祈祷，城乡市镇到处举行化装游行、戏剧表演和体育比赛等，学校和商店也都按规定放假休息。孩子们还模仿当年印第安人的模样穿上离奇古怪的服装，画上脸谱或戴上面具到街上唱歌、吹喇叭。散居在他乡外地的家人也会回家过节，一家人团团围坐在一起，大嚼美味火鸡，并且对家人说：“谢谢！”。感恩节后，学校会让同学们画一张感恩节的画，大部分学生都画的是火鸡。

同时，好客的美国人也忘不掉这一天邀请好友、单身汉或远离家乡的人共度佳节。从18世纪起，美国就开始出现一种给贫穷人家送一篮子食物的风俗。当时有一年轻妇女想在一年中选一天专门做善事，认为选定感恩节是最恰当不过的。所以感恩节一到，她们就装上满满一篮食物亲自送到穷人家。这件事远近传闻，不久就有许多人学着她们的样子做起来。不管遇到谁，他们都会说：“Thank you！” 2.节日购物

感恩节购物已经成为了美国人的习俗。从感恩节到圣诞节这一个月，美国零售业总销售额能占到全年的1/3强，是各个商家传统的打

折促销旺季。疯狂的购物月从感恩节的次日（星期五）开始，这一天即被称为Black Friday（黑星期五）。之所以叫这个名字，据说是因为周五这天一大早，所有人都要摸着黑冲到商场排队买便宜货，这种行为有个非常形象的说法，叫Early Bird（早起的鸟儿）。在外国“感恩节”和中国的春节一样重要！3.总统放生火鸡仪式

每年一度的总统放生火鸡仪式始于1947年杜鲁门总统当政时期，但实际上这个传统仪式可以追溯到美国内战林肯总统当政的时期。1863年的一天，林肯的儿子泰德突然闯入内阁会议请求赦免一只名叫杰克的宠物火鸡，因为这只被送进白宫的火鸡，即将成为人们的感恩节大餐。

2006年11月22日，布什在白宫玫瑰花园举行感恩节放生仪式上，特赦了一只名叫“飞鸟”的火鸡。

美国总统奥巴马25号特赦感恩节火鸡．并将火鸡被命名为“勇气”。这也是他上任以来，首次特赦火鸡．奥巴马并对保护美国人民身家安全的英勇战士表示感恩。

每年11月的第4个星期四是美国感恩节。在女儿萨莎和玛丽亚的陪伴下，奥巴马特赦了本来要用做盘中餐的火鸡．奥巴马说，我原本打算吃掉这只火鸡。由于萨莎和玛丽亚的干预，我赦免了“勇气”。这只火鸡将被送到迪士尼乐园。为防止意外，当局还准备了一只备用火鸡，名叫“卡罗琳娜”。4.蔓越桔竞赛

感恩节宴会后，有些家庭还常常做些传统游戏。第一次感恩节，人们进行了跳舞、比赛等许多娱乐活动，其中有些一直流传至今。有种游戏叫蔓越桔竞赛，是把一个装有蔓越桔的大碗放在地上，4-10名竞赛者围坐在周围，每人发给针线一份。

比赛一开始，他们先穿针线，然后把蔓越桔一个个串起来，3分钟一到；谁串得最长，谁就得奖。至于串得最慢的人，大家还开玩笑地发给他一个最差奖。

5.南瓜赛跑

人们最喜爱的游戏要算南瓜赛跑了。比赛者用一把小勺推着南瓜跑，规则是绝对不能用手碰南瓜，先到终点者获奖。比赛用的勺子越

小，游戏就越有意思。

除去这些活动外，有些家庭在节日里驱车到乡间去郊游，或是坐飞机出去旅行，特别是当年移民们安家落户的地方－－普利茅斯港更是游客们向往的所在。在那里，可以看到按照“五月花”号仿制的船和普利茅斯石，还可以花几个小时在移民村里参观。移民村是仿照当年的样子建成的。参观时，还有专门人员扮成清教徒同游客们谈天，给人以身临其境的感觉。

Originally called Armistice Day, this holiday was established

to

honor Americans who had served in World War falls on

November 11, the day when that war ended in 1918, but it

now honors veterans of all wars in which the United States

has

observation was originally designated in 1919 by

President

Woodrow Wilson as Armistice selected

November 11

because the Armistice ending World War I had been signed

on

this date in wanted to make sure that Americans

did

not forget the tragedies of the 1938, Congress passed

legislation which designated Armistice

Day as a federal name was changed to Veterans

Day in 1954 so that all

veterans would be a brief period(1971-1977),

the

holiday was celebrated on the fourth Monday in

:

I have today signed a proclamation calling upon all of our

citizens to

observe Thursday, November 11, 1954 as Veterans is

my

earnest hope that all veterans, their organizations, and the

entire

citizenry will join hands to insure proper and widespread

observance of this the thought that it will be most

helpful

to coordinate the planning, I am suggesting the formation of

a

Veterans Day National view of

your great personal interest as well as your official

responsibilities, I

have designated you to serve as may include

in the

Committee membership such other persons as you desire to

select

and I am requesting the heads of all departments and

agencies of

the Executive branch to assist the Committee in its work in

every

way possible.I have every confidence that our Nation will

respond

wholeheartedly in the appropriate observance of Veterans

Day，ely，DWIGHT OWER

The difference between Veterans Day and Memorial Day

Memorial Day honors service members who died in service

to their

country or as a result of injuries incurred during

ed

veterans are also remembered on Veterans Day but the day

is set

aside to thank and honor living veterans who served

honorably in

the military-in wartime or peacetime.

第三篇：holiday

VShould We Adopt Thanksgiving as Our National Holiday?

Topic演讲稿 2010-05-14 12:23:22 阅读4 评论0 字号：大中小

Holiday

The western holiday become more and more popular in

China and most of Chinese people prefer Western holiday to

Chinese traditional giving is also one of the most

popular western holidays in people suggest adopt

thanksgiving as our national my opinion, we

shouldn’t adopt thanksgiving as our national holiday because

it is a cultural should improve our own traditional

you will say the thanksgiving is a good way to

express gratitude to I think we need not choose a

certain day to thank others on purpose once a ionally,

we are taught to be polite when we were someone

gives me a hand, I would say thank there’s no need to

celebrate thanksgiving because we can say thanks to others

every our daily life, we are always say we

needn’t adopt thanksgiving as our national there are

so many

Chinese traditional holidays to be improved, we shouldn’t

adopt thanksgiving as our national holiday.另一篇文章，与上一篇可以结合As China is accessing to the world, not only the world

knows more about China, but we Chinese learn more about the

world as the celebration of western holidays is an

1950s, Chinese people knew little about the

western countries, not to mention the the reform

and open policy, all kinds of western holidays have gradually

come into people’s life, and played a more and more

Chinese people even get crazy on them, especially the college

a Chinese, should we celebrate the western holidays?

Holiday is a kind of value of a country, which reflects the

country’s , in my opinion, the celebration of

western holiday is a good way of learning the western

countries’

offers us an

opportunity to get together so that we can learn each other

I’m afraid I can’t agree with the way of celebration

as most Chinese people example, when Christmas Day is

coming, most people just go shopping, make decorations of

their houses, hold parties, few people even know the

origin of the holiday.“What do you celebrate the holiday for?”

"Nothing, just for fun!” “We celebrate it because it is an

opportunity to get together!” These answers are very common

among course, it is a good way of relaxation, but

what can we learn from them? Maybe it is a question we should

have a my opinion, the celebration should be nice and

significant, which will give us unforgettable memories and learn

, I think we'd better absorb the different

cultures, but not abandon them, and we should pay more

attention to the ways of celebration.//以上均为反对方面

//以下均为赞成方面

You see this is an old have already met this title

somewhere, from the newspapers, magazines or even your test

culture, which helps to promote better

understanding and s, the celebration

common view about this issue is that the atmosphere

is more romantic and the ornaments or decoration things are

much more

beautiful than our own Spring I walked along

the street, seeing those happy couples wondering around the

street arms in arms, an idea just occurred to me maybe the

reason why the teenagers or the young

generations love to celebrate those holidays like Christmas

and the Valentine’s Day is because we want have our own space

with our lovers or our friends who are at our want to

celebrate some special days with some special those

Western holidays, we can go out to see a movie with our lovers

or friends, we can go shopping, we can go out for a delicious

dinner while chat about something happen to us the

contrary, when it comes to The Spring Festival, we the young

generations should go home to visit our parents and relatives, to

see if they are sound or ok and the only

entertainment is playing mahjong less interesting as we are

with our friends, right?

But we should go home to take care of our parents who bring

us up with hardness and patient, the most important thing is

enjoy different holidays with different people who you

love and love you is the most important thing we should care~

What do you think about this?

Reason 1

the world has now got it new name, the earth

izaiton needs people to know more different

ating the weatern holidays can make Chinese

people get into 2

Weatern holidays remind us of something good we may

forget, like the exemple of Thanks Giving Day, which remind us

should have a thankful 3

we need more to celabrate, to share with others, to amuse

ys mean happy happiness is awlays the

hope and the dream for is better, doesn't it ?

Conclusion:

Western holiday is a extra activator for our life.

第四篇：summer holiday

summer holiday

we're all going on a summer holiday,no more working for a

week or two,____ and laughter on a summer holiday,no more

______ for me or you,for a week or 're going where the sun

shines ______we're going where the ______ is blue,we're seen it in

the ______,now let's see if this ________everybody has a summer

holiday doing things that always wanna to,so we're going on a

summer holiday to make our _______ come true for me and you

summer holiday

we're all going on a summer holiday,no more working for a

week or two,____ and laughter on a summer holiday,no more

______ for me or you,for a week or 're going where the sun

shines ______we're going where the ______ is blue,we're seen it in

the ______,now let's see if this ________everybody has a summer

holiday doing things that always wanna to,so we're going on a

summer holiday to make our _______ come true for me and you

summer holiday

we're all going on a summer holiday,no more working for a

week or two,____ and laughter on a summer holiday,no more

______ for me or you,for a week or 're going where the sun

shines ______we're going where the ______ is blue,we're seen it in

the ______,now let's see if this ________everybody has a summer

holiday doing things that always wanna to,so we're going on a

summer holiday to make our _______ come true for me and you

summer holiday

we're all going on a summer holiday,no more working for a

week or two,____ and laughter on a summer holiday,no more

______ for me or you,for a week or 're going where the sun

shines ______we're going where the ______ is blue,we're seen it in

the ______,now let's see if this ________everybody has a summer

holiday doing things that always wanna to,so we're going on a

summer holiday to make our _______ come true for me and you

summer holiday

we're all going on a summer holiday,no more working for a

week or two,____ and laughter on a summer holiday,no more

______ for me or you,for a week or 're going where the sun

shines ______we're going where the ______ is blue,we're seen it in

the ______,now let's see if this ________everybody has a summer

holiday doing things that always wanna to,so we're going on a

summer holiday to make our _______ come true for me and you

summer holiday

we're all going on a summer holiday,no more working for a

week or two,____ and laughter on a summer holiday,no more

______ for me or you,for a week or 're going where the sun

shines ______we're going where the ______ is blue,we're seen it in

the ______,now let's see if this ________everybody has a summer

holiday doing things that always wanna to,so we're going on a

summer holiday to make our _______ come true for me and you

summer holiday

we're all going on a summer holiday,no more working for a

week or two,fun and laughter on a summer holiday,no more

worries for me or you,for a week or 're going where the

sun shines brightly we're going where the sea is blue,we're seen

it in the movies,now let's see if this true

everybody has a summer holiday doing things that always

wanna to,so we're going on a summer holiday to make our

dreams come true for me and you

第五篇：7-day holiday

7-day holiday May is a special month for us for we will have

a 7-day holiday at the special in the world because

it is a time to celebrate the Working.7-day is a long time, many

people will go home to stay together with their family

is a precious time for many people in one year.A

family may choose to go somewhere famous such as the

people will visit the relatives and bring them

is a good chance to start business thus it bring many

profits in some every coin has two sides and the 7-day

holiday is no transportation will be fairly busy at

that may be tracked at the station or in the

the famous places may full of people which may cause

s, Many goods will raise pe during the

order to enjoy a happy holiday, the governments should send out

more police to ensure the we should ricfollow the rule

and be kind to each other.