问答题
{{B}}Directions:{{/B}} Read the following text carefully and then translate
the underlined segments into Chinese. Your translation should be written neatly
on the ANSWER SHEET. More than any other
date on the calendar, Thanksgiving has remained private and personal, without
the trappings that spoil the rest of contemporary life. {{U}}{{U}} 1
{{/U}}{{/U}}{{U}}On this holiday, Americans are allowed to be as prayerful or as
worldly as they choose, with no one complaining that they have somehow taken the
thanks out of Thanksgiving{{/U}}. For all the public talk about
family values, no other holiday brings generations together without the lure of
anything more tangible than a good dinner. Distractions are gloriously limited:
the malls are closed and the televised sports offerings sparse. {{U}}{{U}}
2 {{/U}}{{/U}}{{U}}Unlike New Year's Eve, no one feels compelled to have the
time of one's life or broods excessively when reality fails to conform to these
exaggerated expectations{{/U}}. The perfect Thanksgiving is timeless.
No gastronomical (art of cooking good food or the pleasure of eating it)
theory can explain the enduring appeal of the Thanksgiving dinner. Americans
have grown accustomed to utter commercialism taken to excess, but somehow
Thanksgiving has resisted the lure of an age of agreed. {{U}}{{U}} 3
{{/U}}{{/U}}{{U}}The greeting- card producers and the florists must lament a national
holiday in which they are doomed to play such a minor role{{/U}}. For if one cares
to send the very best, one flies home for Thanksgiving. Even the TV networks
have never figured out a way to transform Thanksgiving into a prime-time
pageant. {{U}}{{U}} 4 {{/U}}{{/U}}{{U}}Politicians are
happily silent on Thanksgiving, and such restraint is appropriate for a holiday
that commemorates one of the rare occasions when the white man treated the
Indian with dignity and respect{{/U}}. But public officials may also be restrained
by the experience of Franklin Roosevelt, the only modem President to try to
tamper with Thanksgiving. Back in 1939, Roosevelt touched off a patriotic
uprising when he issued a proclamation unilaterally shifting Thanksgiving from
the then customary last Thursday in November (the 30th) to the fourth Thursday
(the 23rd) as a way of granting Depression-era merchants a longer Christmas
selling season. {{U}}{{U}} 5 {{/U}}{{/U}}{{U}}What adds an
odd, almost innocent flavor to this bygone controversy is the old-fashioned
notion that department stores wait patiently until the end of Thanksgiving to
unveil Santa's workshop{{/U}}. In a nation where the mall never gets tedious and
seven-days-a-week shopping seems valued as a civic religion, Thanksgiving stands
out as an oasis of quietness and a reminder of the values that once tempered
America's materialism. This Thursday give thanks for the one holiday that cannot
be bought.