影片對白  Very difficult to appreciate a Thanksgiving dinner once you've seen it in reverse.

文化面面觀  Thanksgiving 感恩節

Celebration

Turkey, corn (or maize), pumpkins and cranberry sauce are symbols which represent the first Thanksgiving. Now all of these symbols are drawn on holiday decorations and greeting cards.

The use of corn meant the survival of the colonies. "Indian corn" as a table or door decoration represents the harvest and the fall season.

Sweet-sour cranberry sauce, or cranberry jelly, was on the first Thanksgiving table and is still served today. The cranberry is a small, sour berry. It grows in bogs, or muddy areas, in Massachusetts and other New England states. The Indians used the fruit to treat infections. They used the juice to dye their rugs and blankets. They taught the colonists how to cook the berries with sweetener and water to make a sauce. The Indians called it "ibimi" which means "bitter berry." When the colonists saw it, they named it "crane-berry" because the flowers of the berry bent the stalk over, and it resembled the long-necked bird called a crane.

The berries are still grown in New England. Very few people know, however, that before the berries are put in bags to be sent to the rest of the country, each individual berry must bounce at least four inches high to make sure they are not too ripe!

In 1988, a Thanksgiving ceremony of a different kind took place at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine. More than four thousand people gathered on Thanksgiving night. Among them were Native Americans representing tribes from all over the country and descendants of people whose ancestors had migrated to the New World.

The ceremony was a public acknowledgment of the Indians' role in the first Thanksgiving 350 years ago. Until recently most schoolchildren believed that the Pilgrims cooked the entire Thanksgiving feast, and offered it to the Indians. In fact, the feast was planned to thank the Indians for teaching them how to cook those foods. Without the Indians, the first settlers would not have survived.
(http://homeschooling.about.com/cs/unitssubjhol/a/thanksday3.htm)

考考你

用今日所學將下面的句子譯成英語。

1. 他所有的親戚都湊錢給他交高昂的學費。
2. 先發制人，羅伯特說，不是美國的風格--那將是“第二個珍珠港”。
3. 有些時候你需要放松放松，享受生活。
4. - 你是我見過的最漂亮的女生。
   - 胡說。我沒那么好啦。

Friends 1 《老友記》1（精講之八）考考你 參考答案

1. 真的很遺憾，但是我要離開了，因為我不能接受你對待我的方式。
It's such a shame, but I'm leaving, 'cause I can't take the way you treated me.

2. 我需要你給我介紹一個合適的對象。
I need you to set me up with someone right for me.

3. 他們自貶形象，說：“我配不上她，”而不是說“我知道如何制造吸引力。”
"They say, "She's out of my league," diminishing their own self image, instead of saying, "I know how to create attraction."

4. 女為悅己者容。
Women dress up for their beholders.

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