父親節不止中國有 美國家庭週日默默紀念父輩
Sunday is Father's Day in the United States, an occasion to mark and celebrate the contributions of fathers.
這個星期天是父親節，人們在這一天慶祝和讚美父親的貢獻。The non-federal holiday is observed each year on the third Sunday in June, which this year, falls on the first day of summer (in the Northern Hemisphere).
每年6月的第三個星期天是美國的父親節。今年的父親節恰好是北半球夏季的開始。
Families usually celebrate the day with taking Dad out to dinner and plying him with gifts, including (-as the joke goes-) far too many ties. Economists say Americans spend more than $1 billion each year on Father's Day gifts.
父親節這一天，很多家庭請父親去餐館吃飯，並給父親買禮物, 包括（象笑話裏說的那樣）太多的領帶。經濟學者說，美國人每年父親節買禮物要花費10億美元。
The humble origins of Father's Day began on July 5, 1908 when a (state of) West Virginia church held a Sunday service in memory of 362 men who had died the previous year in explosions in coal mines.
父親的起源平凡。1908年7月5日，當時西維吉尼亞州的一個教堂舉行星期日禮拜，紀念前一年在煤礦爆炸中遇難的362人。The next year, a Spokane, Washington woman who was raised by her widowed father set out to establish a male equivalent of Mother's Day. She was successful and in 1910 Washington state celebrated the nation's first statewide Father's Day.
第二年華盛頓州斯波坎一位由喪偶父親獨自撫養長大的婦女着手推動建立父親節獲得成功。該州1910年首次在全州範圍內慶祝父親節。By the end of the war, Father's Day was a national institution.
第二次大戰結束後，父親節成爲美國人普遍慶祝的節日。
