感恩节传统丨25分钟的美式动画之旅
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今天是感恩节，美国人会在这一天与家人团聚，享受火鸡大餐，感恩生活赐予他们的一切。
《落难见真情》（Planes, Trains & Automobiles）是一个传统的感恩节喜剧片，这档节目讲述了两个不相熟的朋友的囧途，他们在感恩节前踏上了回家的路，途中却遇到了意想不到的延误。去年感恩节，我与你分享这部电影和它的意旨:常怀感恩之心。
感恩节有很多传统。大多数美国人会选择回家是为了和家人一起享受火鸡大餐。他们通常会选择参加感恩节大游行或观看感恩节橄榄球赛。一些人会到无家可归者的收容站做志愿者，为那些不幸的人们提供食物。许多家庭都有自己代代相传的保留传统。
史努比进行感恩节大餐
其中最受欢迎的传统节日项目之一是观看动画片《史努比的故事：查理布朗的感恩节》（A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving），从1973年开播至今，每年感恩节前一天晚上节目都会准时上线。这部25分钟的短片很好的把握了感恩节的情感。许多成年人还会去观看这部电影以寻求一种nostalgia（怀旧感），追忆着往昔的美好。孩子们则享受动画带来的欢乐，这些都是传统的一部分。
《史努比的故事：查理布朗的感恩节》
我无法找到中文字幕的版本，但故事其实很容易理解，人物的配音也说的很慢。也许你可以把它这当成你的“感恩节挑战”，看看电影，试着直接理解英文的版本！视频中可能有一些你不理解的俚语词汇和表达方式，但更应该把重点放在理解故事的主旨上。为了更好的帮助大家理解这部动画，下面请看我的观影指南:
查理·布朗（Charlie Brown）是花生漫画（Peanuts）中创造的人物，这部漫画一直在1950 - 2000年间连载，之后又被改编成动画、电影等形式。《花生》是历史上最受欢迎和最具影响力的漫画。其中的主要人物是查理·布朗和史努比，他们总能在日常生活中发现有趣的故事。
然后系列包括电影（于2015年上映的《史努比:花生大电影》），文艺作品、视频游戏、和节日电视专题片，所以《花生》漫画一直是美国文化非常重要的一部分。
在《史努比的故事：查理布朗的感恩节》中，你将会看到以下人物：
又称Chuck（小查），他是一个正直的男孩，总是能够克服各种生活中的困难，在生活中他是一个老好人。
她是查理的妹妹，总是会抱怨或是对发生的事有过度的反应。
查理·布朗聪明的宠物狗，是一只富于幻想的小猎犬。
一只黄色的小鸟，它史努比虽不聪明但却很要好的朋友。
露茜·范佩特
Lucy Van Pelt
一个傲慢的女孩，总是对发生的事情吹毛求疵。
他是露茜的兄长和查理·布朗关系最好的朋友。
他是非裔美国人，非常健谈并通常对身边发生的事情感到困惑。
她是一个有进取心的假小子，暗恋着查理·布朗。
一位温文尔雅，戴着眼镜的小书虫。
感恩节那天，查理·布朗和莎莉待在家，他们打算去外婆家吃晚饭。薄荷·派蒂打电话给查理·布朗，邀请她和玛西和富兰克林一起去他家。查理·布朗quandary（进退两难），因为他认为他不能邀请他们去他祖母家，但也不想在这个特殊的日子拒绝他的朋友。
莱纳斯这时出现了，他建议查理·布朗为他的朋友做晚餐，之后再去他祖母家。但是查理·布朗不知道如何做饭，他们找来史努比和糊涂塌客帮他出主意。他们还把一张乒乓球桌当做餐桌，并将它放在后院。
莱纳斯发言
当客人们到达并坐下时，莱纳斯讲述了1621年刚刚踏上美洲大陆的清教徒和印第安人如何庆祝第一个感恩节的故事。1620年11月，“五月花”号上的清教徒在今天的波士顿附近登陆，他们度过了一个严酷的冬天。正是由于印第安人的帮助，他们才在第二年享受到了第一次大自然丰收的bounty（慷慨）。
随后莱纳斯富有礼节的带领大家开始餐前祈祷：“我们感谢上主赐予我们一片新天地，让我们拥有家庭、食物和安宁的生活。感谢上主赐予我们创造自由和正义新世界的机会。”
史努比随后烹饪了一顿有别于传统的晚餐：黄油吐司、椒盐卷饼、爆米花、果冻豆和冰淇淋圣代。薄荷·派蒂突然变得很愤怒，她希望眼前的晚餐应当是火鸡，土豆泥，蔓越莓酱和南瓜派。所以她berate（斥责）查理·布朗准备了如此不尊重传统的晚餐。
查理·布朗感觉很糟糕，他认为这毁掉了大家的感恩节——尽管他已经尽力了，而且从未邀请过这些朋友来自己家做客。
能去祖母家大家都很开心
然后玛茜让薄荷·帕蒂明白了自己的问题所在，薄荷·派蒂于是向查理·布朗道歉，随后两人最终和解。故事的最后，查理·布朗的祖母邀请所有的孩子到她的家共度感恩节，于是所有人都非常delight（高兴）。而史努比和糊涂塌客最后留下来享受他们自己的感恩节大餐。
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当他详细叙述感恩节历史的故事时，莱纳斯还暗示感恩节不仅仅是享受美食的日子。玛茜也提醒查理·布朗，告诉他清教徒们对当时发生的一切有多么的感激，今日的我们也同样应该心怀感恩之情，感谢所有人都在一起的时光——无论何时何地。
这些年来，我和许多朋友们共进过晚餐，有些时候我们会对食物感到不太满意。这可能会影响整个聚会的气氛。但是，事实上朋友之间的情感远远比一顿晚餐重要，味觉上的不尽人意其实是在提醒我们，友情是无价的至宝。
最近几个朋友聚在一起给我过了一次难忘的生日会。我非常感动，他们从繁忙的日程中抽出时间来为我庆生。虽然邀请的一些朋友没能参加，他们有的正在旅途奔波中，有的家里还有事情，但我知道如果他们能来的话，他们一定会参加的——我很感激他们精神上的支持。
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史努比与糊涂塌客共享伙计晚餐
查理·布朗和他的朋友们去祖母家后，史努比和糊涂塌客留下来享受他们自己的盛宴。虽然他们没有与大家在一起庆祝，但他们沉浸在彼此的幸福中。
我在中国被邀请参加过很多次晚宴，通常很多人都会被邀请。不过，对于某些晚宴，一些受邀者却出于某种原因临时请假，这一般都是出于可以理解的缘由。但宴会的主人却感到很尴尬。不过，我总是向主持者说，很感激他们的付出，也很高兴能和到场的朋友们一同享受这段时光。
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动画片中，史努比和糊涂塌客正在享用晚餐，他们共同折断了火鸡的许愿骨。这是节日庆祝的一个传统习俗。当火鸡肉被一扫而空，而许愿骨变得又干又脆时，两个人各取骨头的一端，许下心愿，然后用力折断。谁得到了更大的骨头，谁的心愿就能实现！
虽然我不相信幸运符，但我相信感恩是成功的基石。许愿代表着希望。当你对自己所拥有的事物心存感激时，你就会对自己和自己的生活充满信心，这种信心会给你正确的视角，帮助你制定计划，实现宏伟的设想，把心愿变成现实。
我的朋友，我希望大家能在感恩节到来之际与我分享你的感受。感谢大家一直以来对我博客的支持，在你经历人生的起伏时，我将继续陪伴你。虽然在中国我们并不会庆祝感恩节，但我们其实也不必一定要把所有的感恩局限在的一天来进行表达。谢谢大家一直以来的支持，祝大家感恩节快乐!
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I'm John Smagula. 」
Today is Thanksgiving Day, a day when Americans reunite with their families, enjoy a turkey dinner, and take time to appreciate what they have in life.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles is a classic Thanksgiving comedy film, which features the hilarious journey of two unwitting friends as they try to get home during the Thanksgiving travel rush full of unexpected delays. Last Thanksgiving I shared this movie with you, along with its main idea: have an attitude of gratitude.
There are many Thanksgiving traditions. Most Americans travel to be with family and enjoy a turkey feast. They often attend Thanksgiving Day parades or watch Thanksgiving Day football games. Some people volunteer in homeless shelters, serving meals to the less fortunate. Many families have their own customs that have been passed down for generations.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
One of most beloved traditions is to watch A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, the 1973 cartoon that is broadcast every year the night before Thanksgiving. This 25-minute short film captures the essence of the holiday. Many adults watch this movie with a sense of nostalgia, yearning for past Thanksgiving memories. Children enjoy the entertainment, becoming part of the tradition.
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
I was unable to find a version with Chinese subtitles, but the story is easy to follow, and the characters speak slowly. Perhaps you can make this your “Thanksgiving Challenge,” to watch the film and try to understand the English! There may be some slang terms and expressions you don’t understand, but focus on the main idea. To help you along, here’s my guide to the movie:
Pilgrim Costumes
Charlie Brown is a member of the Peanuts gang, a comic strip that ran from 1950-2000, and continued with reruns afterward. Peanuts is among the most popular and influential in the history of comic strips. The main characters, led by Charlie Brown and Snoopy, found many fun and amusing situations in daily life.
The series then grew to include movies (The Peanuts Movie was released in 2015), theatrical productions, video games, and holiday-themed television specials, so Peanuts is a very familiar part of American culture.
In A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, we meet the following characters:
Charlie Brown
(also known as Chuck)
an upright boy who rises out of every downfall and tries to get along with everyone.
Charlie’s younger sister, who complains and overreacts to situations.
Charlie Brown’s intelligent pet dog, a beagle prone to fantasies.
A tiny yellow bird, and Snoopy’s not-too-bright best friend.
a bossy girl who makes a fuss about everything.
Lucy’s philosophical brother and Charlie Brown’s best friend.
the African-American child, a great conversationalist often bemused by events in the neighborhood.
a pushy tomboy with a romantic interest in Charlie Brown.
a mild-mannered, bespectacled bookworm.
On Thanksgiving Day, Charlie Brown and Sally are at home, planning to go to dinner at their grandmother’s house. Peppermint Patty calls Charlie Brown and invites herself over to his house with Marcie and Franklin. Charlie Brown is in a quandary, as he didn’t think he could invite them to his grandmother’s, but he also didn’t want to reject his friends on this special day.
Linus shows up and suggests Charlie Brown cook dinner for his friends, and then later go to his grandmother’s as planned. But Charlie Brown doesn’t know how to cook, and they recruit Snoopy and Woodstock to come up with something. They also convert a ping-pong table into a dinner table and set it up in the back yard.
Snoopy makes toast
As the guests arrive and sit down, Linus tells the story of how the Pilgrims and Indians celebrated the First Thanksgiving in 1621. The Pilgrims on the Mayflower had landed near present-day Boston in November 1620 and survived a harsh winter. Together with the Indians, they enjoyed the bounty of their first harvest the following year.
Linus then leads the group in grace, based on the original prayer, “We thank God for our homes and our food and our safety in a new land. We thank God for the opportunity to create a new world for freedom and justice.”
Snoopy then serves a non-traditional dinner: buttered toast, pretzel sticks, popcorn, jelly beans, and ice cream sundaes. Peppermint Patty becomes outraged, demanding turkey, mashed potatoes, cranberry sauce, and pumpkin pie. She berates Charlie Brown for preparing such an unconventional dinner.
Charlie Brown feels bad, thinking he ruined everyone’s Thanksgiving—even though he did his best and never invited these friends over to begin with.
Wishbone
Marcie then helps Peppermint Patty see the wrongness of her ways, and Peppermint Patty apologizes and reconciles with Charlie Brown. In the end, Charlie Brown’s grandmother invites all the children to her home, and they shout with delight. Snoopy and Woodstock stay behind, enjoying their own Thanksgiving feast.
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Friends are more important than food
Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, New York
As he detailed the history of the holiday, Linus implied that Thanksgiving is more than eating. Marcie reminds Charlie Brown about this, telling him that the Pilgrims were thankful for what had happened to them, that we should also be grateful, and that we should just be thankful for being together—regardless of the circumstances.
I have been to many dinners with friends over the years, and in some way or another, we have sometimes been disappointed with the food. This could influence the mood of the whole gathering. In the end, being in the company of friends is more important than the quality of the food, and in fact, a bad meal could be a reminder of the more valuable gift of friendship.
Several friends recently gathered together to throw me a birthday party in Beijing. I was very touched that they took time out of their busy schedules to celebrate with me. Some people we invited couldn’t attend, as they were traveling or had family commitments, but I knew they’d be there if they could—and I was grateful they were there in spirit.
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After Charlie Brown and his friends leave for his grandmother’s house, Snoopy and Woodstock stay behind to enjoy their own feast. They found happiness in being together, as opposed to being part of a large crowd.
I have been hosted for many dinners in China, and often, many people are invited. For some dinners, though, some of the invitees cancel for some reason or another, generally for understandable reasons. The host then feels awkward. I always assure the host, though, that I am grateful for the effort and am happy to enjoy the time with those who actually came.
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As Snoopy and Woodstock enjoy their dinner, they break the turkey’s wishbone. This is a common part of the holiday celebration. After the meat has been removed and the wishbone becomes dry and brittle, two people each take one end of the bone, make a wish, and pull. Whoever ends up with the larger part of the bone gets their wish!
Although I don’t believe in good luck charms, I do believe that gratitude is the foundation of success. To a make a wish is to have hope. When you are grateful for what you have, you grow in confidence with yourself and your life, and this confidence gives you proper perspective and enables you to make plans and do great things, turning your hopes into reality.
My friend, I hope you enjoyed sharing in this traditional Thanksgiving event with me. I am grateful for your support of my blog, and I will continue to be with you as you go through the ups and downs of life. Even though we don’t officially celebrate Thanksgiving in China, we don’t need a holiday to be grateful. And I am grateful for you. Happy Thanksgiving!
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1.Nostalgia
\ nä-ˈstal-jə \
a)含义：n. 乡愁；思乡病
b)例句：
i.Many adults watch this movie with a sense of nostalgia, yearning for past Thanksgiving memories.
许多成年人还会去观看这部电影以寻求一种怀旧感，追忆着往昔的美好。
ii.I hope my poem is about loss, not nostalgia, that the tenor singing an Italian aria, like the ruined pilasters of the theater, suggests an historical dimension of loss.
我希望我的诗表现的是失落，而非乡愁，如同那名男高音唱着意大利咏叹调，宛如剧院的断壁颓垣，都流露出历史的失落。
c)近义词： recollection, remembrance, reminiscence
2.Quandary
\ˈkwän-d(ə-)rē \
a)含义： n. 困惑；窘境
b)例句：
i.Charlie Brown is in a quandary, as he didn’t think he could invite them to his grandmother’s, but he also didn’t want to reject his friends on this special day.
查理·布朗进退两难，因为他认为他不能邀请他们去他祖母家，但也不想在这个特殊的日子拒绝他的朋友。
ii.The new economics of the e-book make the author's quandary painfully clear: A new $28 hardcover book returns half, or $14, to the publisher, and 15%, or $4.20, to the author.
电子图书带来的新盈利模式切切实实地令作家陷入了窘境：以前，每售出一本28美元的实体书，出版社能拿到一半的收入，即14美元，作者提15％，即4.20美元。
c)近义词： bind, dilemma, predicament
3.Bounty \ˈbau̇n-tē \
a)含义：n. 慷慨
b)例句：
i.Together with the Indians, they enjoyed the bounty of their first harvest the following year.
正是由于印第安人的帮助，他们才在第二年享受到了第一次大自然丰收的慷慨。
ii.Ours is an age of unprecedented bounty and convenience—and almost nonstop nutritional advice, much of it subject to change as new research findings come along or scientists change their minds.
在我们的时代，有着空前的恩惠和便利，拥有几乎无穷无尽的营养建议，很多建议由于新研究发明的出现或科学家观点的改变而遭到更改。
c)近义词： haul, take, yield
4.Berate \ bi-ˈrāt \
a)含义：v. 严责；申斥
b)例句：
i.She berates Charlie Brown for preparing such an unconventional dinner.
所以她斥责查理·布朗准备了如此不尊重传统的晚餐。
ii.In fact, logic usually makes things worse, as you berate yourself for being silly.
事实上，逻辑思维通常做出错误判断，就像你因为太糊涂而严厉斥责自己。
c)近义词： rebuke, reprimand, reproach
5.Delight \ di-ˈlīt \
a)含义：n. 高兴
b)例句：
i.In the end, Charlie Brown’s grandmother invites all the children to her home, and they shout with delight.
故事的最后，查理·布朗的祖母邀请所有的孩子到她的家共度感恩节，于是所有人都非常高兴。
ii.If I was unaware of the potential for dark, gray skies, I would never have taken so much delight in seeing those beautiful clouds littering the sky last Thursday night.
如果我对潜在的黑暗、阴暗天气的可能一无所觉，我从没想上周四晚上看到零星散落在天空中的那些美丽的云彩那么高兴的事情。
c)近义词： happiness, pleasure, relish
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