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Everybody knows that Americans celebrate Thanksgiving on the fourth Thursday of November every year. The day is a national holiday for giving thanks to God. But do you know how Thanksgiving happened?

In 1620， a hundred English people wanted to start a new life. They left England for the new world in a small ship. The ship’s name was Mayflower. But half of them died of hunger， cold or illness. The other half lived through the terrible winter. As spring came， their life became easier. And the native Indians gave them a lot of help. So when they got in a good harvest the next autumn， they had a good celebration to remember the dead and to give thanks to God. They asked their Indian friends to join them in a big dinner with wild turkeys， geese， ducks and pumpkin. This was the first Thanksgiving celebration. It was held on December 13th， 1621.

譯文：所有人都知道，每年11月的第四個星期四美國人慶祝感恩節(jié)。這個日子是向上帝表示感謝的傳統節(jié)日。但是，你知道感恩節(jié)是如何產生的嗎？

1620年，有100多個英國人想要開始一種新的生活。他們趁著一條小船離開英格蘭，去一個新的世界。這艘船的名字叫五月花。但是他們中有一半人都死于饑餓、嚴寒或者疾病。另一半人度過了糟糕的冬天。當春天來臨時，他們的生活開始變得容易些了。當時的印地安人給了他們很多幫助。因此，當他們在秋天獲得豐收的時候，他們進行了隆重的慶祝，以銘記死去的人，并向上帝表示感謝。他們邀請他們的印地安朋友參加他們盛大的晚宴，晚宴上有火雞、鵝、鴨和南瓜。這就是最初的感恩節(jié)慶祝，在1621年12月13日舉行。