Father's Day
父亲节絮语
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安徽省安庆商业学校外语教研室 邱效瑾 编注
Father's Day was born in memory and gratitude
by a child who thought that his/her father and all good fathers should
be honored with a special day just like we honor our mothers on Mother's
Day.
Mother's Day came first, but Father's Day wasn't too far behind. It's
amazing what people accomplish when they put their minds to good use
and encourage others to join their cause.1 It just wouldn't be the
same without many of our holidays and Father's Day is one of them.
A: Her name was Sonora Louise Smart Dodd and she lived in Spokane,2
Washington. Sonora was the oldest of six children raised by their father,
William Jackson Smart, when their mother died during childbirth. Sonora
honored and revered her father,3 and while listening to a Mother's Day
sermon,4 in 1909, she determined there should also be a day to honor5
fathers.
Sonora gained local support and made her dream a reality, one year later,
within her own city of Spokane, Washington. Sonora married John Bruce
Dodd. She died March 22, 1978, several years after Father's Day became
a permanent national observance.6
A: In 1910 Sonora chose June 19th, as the day to celebrate Father's
Day because that was her father's birthday. With support from the Spokane
Ministerial Association and the YMCA,7 the first Father's Day was celebrated
in Spokane on June 19, 1910.
A:1910 Spokane, Washington celebrates Father's Day.
1924 President Calvin Coolidge proclaimed the third Sunday in June as
Father's Day.
1926 The formation of National Father's Day Committee in New York City.
1956 Father's Day was recognized by Joint Resolution of Congress.8
1966 President Lyndon B. Johnson signed a presidential proclamation
declaring that the third Sunday of June as Father's Day.
1972 President Richard Nixon established a permanent national observance
of Father's Day to be held on the third Sunday in June.
A: Father's Day is celebrated in every part of the world. In the United
States, Canada and most countries in Asia, Father's Day is celebrated
on the third Sunday in June. Apart from flowers, on the third Sunday
in June each year, all the fathers are still given presents, treated
to dinner or otherwise made to feel special.
A: In both early times and these days, wearing flowers was a common
way of celebrating Father's Day. Mrs. Dodd favored the red rose to honor
a father still living, while a white flower honored a deceased dad.
J.H. Berringer, who also held Father's Day celebrations in Washington
State as early as 1912, chose a white lilac9 as the Father's Day Flower.
1．人们一旦花心思去做好事，并能鼓励他人也参加进来，就会有令人惊奇的收获。
2．Spokane/sp2%#k*n/：斯波坎[美国华盛顿州东部城市]。
3．honor和revere都是尊敬，敬畏的意思。
4．sermon：（教堂的）布道。
5．honor：向……表示敬意。
6．observance：规章，风俗习惯。
7．Ministerial Association：指牧师协会；YMCA：Young
Men's Christian Aassociation，基督教青年会。
8. 国会两院联合决议。
9. lilac:［植］丁香。
