【cyburkey thursday: the wired thanksgiving】
【introduction】
on thanksgiving, the internet is often used for looking up recipes.try to memorize your childhood and feel warm from this article,although the festival is not popular here in our country.
11月的第四個星期四是感恩節(jié)。感恩節(jié)是美國人民獨創(chuàng)的一個古老節(jié)日，也是美國人合家歡聚的節(jié)日，因此美國人提起感恩節(jié)總是備感親切。
美國國定假日中最地道、最美國式的節(jié)日( holiday )，它和早期美國歷史最為密切相關(guān)。
1620年，一些朝拜者乘坐"五月花"號船去美國尋求宗教自由。他們在海上顛簸了兩個月之后，終于在酷寒的十一月里，在現(xiàn)在的馬莎塞州的普里茅斯登陸。在第一個冬天，半數(shù)以上的移民都死于( die )饑餓和傳染病，活下來的人們在第一個春季即1621年開始播種。整個夏天( summer )他們都熱切地盼望著豐收的到來，他們深知自己的生存以及殖民地的存在都將取決于即將到來的收成。最后( finally )，莊稼獲得了意外的豐收，為了感謝上帝賜予的豐收，舉行了3天的狂歡活動。從此，這一習(xí)俗就沿續(xù)下來，并逐漸風(fēng)行各地。1863年，美國總統(tǒng)林肯宣布每年十一月的第四個星期四為感恩節(jié)。感恩節(jié)慶?；顒颖愣ㄔ谶@一天，直到如今.屆時，家家團(tuán)聚，舉國同慶，其盛大、熱烈的情形，不亞于中國人過春節(jié)。
感恩節(jié)慶祝模式許多年來從未改變。豐盛的家宴早在幾個月之前就開始著手準(zhǔn)備。人們在餐桌上可以吃到蘋果、桔子、栗子、胡桃和葡萄，還有葡萄干 布丁、碎肉餡餅、各種其他食物以及紅莓苔汁和鮮果汁，其中最妙和最吸引人的大菜是烤火雞( roast turkey )和南瓜餡餅( pumpkin pie )，這些菜一直是感恩節(jié)中最富于傳統(tǒng)和人喜愛的食品( food )。
人人都贊成感恩節(jié)大餐必需以烤火雞為主菜。火雞在烘烤時要以面包作填料以吸收從中流出來的美味汁液，但烹飪技術(shù)常因家庭和地區(qū)的不同而各異，應(yīng)用什么填料也就很難求得一致。
【section one】article
cyburkey thursday: the wired thanksgiving
from games of touch football with my older brother on the front lawn to the aroma of roasted turkey, fresh-baked rolls and sweet potato casserole that filled our home, my fondest memories of childhood revolve around thanksgiving day, my favorite holiday. kids today may have similar memories to cherish as they get older, but they'll probably also have a few others that didn't exist in the pre-internet era, when i was coming up: "thanksgiving screensavers," for example, or "thanksgiving day excel templates" and "thanksgiving myspace profile themes." (people really search for these things online. i can't make this stuff up.)
there are lots of surprises, actually, when you look at thanksgiving day internet activity. contrary to industry buzz, the busiest day for online shopping, in terms of market-share of site visits, isn't black friday (the day after thanksgiving) or even cyber monday (the following monday). for the past four years, it's been thanksgiving day itself — i need a catchy phrase, like brown thursday or perhaps cyburkey day — when we rush to our computers to surf the retail sites, perhaps to kill time while the bird is roasting or to start our holiday buying research. hitwise data reveals that a good portion of internet traffic on thanksgiving is research related — many people are searching for information on the biggest offline shopping day of the year, black friday.
the week of thanksgiving also marks the year's lowest volume of searches on the term "diet." and it marks the peak of online searches for the term "depression," perhaps related to the failure to stick with our diets or, more likely, because we're stuck with — or without — our families. the good news, however, is that searches for "depression" and popular antidepressant medications have declined overall since thanksgiving 2006.
another search that hits a peak around thanksgiving is "engagement rings" — that term logs the most searches during the week before thanksgiving and during the week of valentine's day. offline, most jewelers report that the busiest weeks for engagement ring shopping are those between chrismas and new year's (probably because most proposals occur on either christmas day or new year's eve). so, why does the online shopping spike take place a week earlier? my analyst team offers the "ultimatum theory" — to which i don't subscribe — as an answer. they think the online spike is likely caused by the potential bride's ultimatum: if she's going to bring her boyfriend home to meet the parents, she had better not be going empty handed. but as the only man in this particular debate, i subscribe to a research-mission theory that i call: "i don't want to get ripped-off at the jewelry store." i think the name is pretty self-explanatory.
beyond retail and rings, cyburkey day is a day spent searching on terms related to my favorite thing: food. recipe searches reveal that most of us don't start menu planning until thanksgiving week. and if last year is any indication, they also reveal that our favorite part of thanksgiving dinner is the holy trinity of desserts: "pumpkin pie," "pecan pie" and "apple pie." after desserts, people search mostly for the old standbys — "sweet potato casserole" and "green bean casserole." turkey-themed myspace profile's excepted, its nice to see that some things never change.
1. please translate the blue part into chinese.
2. what is the main idear of this article?
3. translate the blue part of the introduction into english!
參考答案:
1,當(dāng)我們沖向電腦查找站點,也許是在浪費(fèi)時間當(dāng)烤鳥肉或是開始我們的節(jié)日購物調(diào)查.數(shù)據(jù)現(xiàn)實一個好的網(wǎng)上交通部分在感恩節(jié)是搜索相關(guān)的-許多人隔天,黑色星期五在的脫機(jī)購物搜索相關(guān)信息.
2,tanksgiving is the most important holiday for americans ana many people will go shopping on the internet after it.
3,in 1620,some pilgrims go to america fortoleration by "may flowers".after 2 month-sailing on the sea,they disenbarked in a frostiness december.during the first winter,more than half of the immigrants were died of hunger and infectious disease,the surviving people bengan seminating in the first spring,that is 1621.the whole summer,they were strongly expected the coming of harvest,they deeply knew their survival and the existance of colonial was depending on the harvest at hand.finally,emblements got a unexpected bumper,to acknowledge the harvest given by god,they held 3-day jamboree.since then,the convention was continuing and in popular in every place.in 1863,chief executive lincon announced that every year,the fourth tursday as the thanksgiving day.the celebration of tahnksgiving was setted at this day till now.at that time,families reunite,nation celebate,the prosperous and impassioned situation is nothing less than chinese spring festival.
【introduction】
on thanksgiving, the internet is often used for looking up recipes.try to memorize your childhood and feel warm from this article,although the festival is not popular here in our country.
11月的第四個星期四是感恩節(jié)。感恩節(jié)是美國人民獨創(chuàng)的一個古老節(jié)日，也是美國人合家歡聚的節(jié)日，因此美國人提起感恩節(jié)總是備感親切。
美國國定假日中最地道、最美國式的節(jié)日( holiday )，它和早期美國歷史最為密切相關(guān)。
1620年，一些朝拜者乘坐"五月花"號船去美國尋求宗教自由。他們在海上顛簸了兩個月之后，終于在酷寒的十一月里，在現(xiàn)在的馬莎塞州的普里茅斯登陸。在第一個冬天，半數(shù)以上的移民都死于( die )饑餓和傳染病，活下來的人們在第一個春季即1621年開始播種。整個夏天( summer )他們都熱切地盼望著豐收的到來，他們深知自己的生存以及殖民地的存在都將取決于即將到來的收成。最后( finally )，莊稼獲得了意外的豐收，為了感謝上帝賜予的豐收，舉行了3天的狂歡活動。從此，這一習(xí)俗就沿續(xù)下來，并逐漸風(fēng)行各地。1863年，美國總統(tǒng)林肯宣布每年十一月的第四個星期四為感恩節(jié)。感恩節(jié)慶?；顒颖愣ㄔ谶@一天，直到如今.屆時，家家團(tuán)聚，舉國同慶，其盛大、熱烈的情形，不亞于中國人過春節(jié)。
感恩節(jié)慶祝模式許多年來從未改變。豐盛的家宴早在幾個月之前就開始著手準(zhǔn)備。人們在餐桌上可以吃到蘋果、桔子、栗子、胡桃和葡萄，還有葡萄干 布丁、碎肉餡餅、各種其他食物以及紅莓苔汁和鮮果汁，其中最妙和最吸引人的大菜是烤火雞( roast turkey )和南瓜餡餅( pumpkin pie )，這些菜一直是感恩節(jié)中最富于傳統(tǒng)和人喜愛的食品( food )。
人人都贊成感恩節(jié)大餐必需以烤火雞為主菜。火雞在烘烤時要以面包作填料以吸收從中流出來的美味汁液，但烹飪技術(shù)常因家庭和地區(qū)的不同而各異，應(yīng)用什么填料也就很難求得一致。
【section one】article
cyburkey thursday: the wired thanksgiving
from games of touch football with my older brother on the front lawn to the aroma of roasted turkey, fresh-baked rolls and sweet potato casserole that filled our home, my fondest memories of childhood revolve around thanksgiving day, my favorite holiday. kids today may have similar memories to cherish as they get older, but they'll probably also have a few others that didn't exist in the pre-internet era, when i was coming up: "thanksgiving screensavers," for example, or "thanksgiving day excel templates" and "thanksgiving myspace profile themes." (people really search for these things online. i can't make this stuff up.)
there are lots of surprises, actually, when you look at thanksgiving day internet activity. contrary to industry buzz, the busiest day for online shopping, in terms of market-share of site visits, isn't black friday (the day after thanksgiving) or even cyber monday (the following monday). for the past four years, it's been thanksgiving day itself — i need a catchy phrase, like brown thursday or perhaps cyburkey day — when we rush to our computers to surf the retail sites, perhaps to kill time while the bird is roasting or to start our holiday buying research. hitwise data reveals that a good portion of internet traffic on thanksgiving is research related — many people are searching for information on the biggest offline shopping day of the year, black friday.
the week of thanksgiving also marks the year's lowest volume of searches on the term "diet." and it marks the peak of online searches for the term "depression," perhaps related to the failure to stick with our diets or, more likely, because we're stuck with — or without — our families. the good news, however, is that searches for "depression" and popular antidepressant medications have declined overall since thanksgiving 2006.
another search that hits a peak around thanksgiving is "engagement rings" — that term logs the most searches during the week before thanksgiving and during the week of valentine's day. offline, most jewelers report that the busiest weeks for engagement ring shopping are those between chrismas and new year's (probably because most proposals occur on either christmas day or new year's eve). so, why does the online shopping spike take place a week earlier? my analyst team offers the "ultimatum theory" — to which i don't subscribe — as an answer. they think the online spike is likely caused by the potential bride's ultimatum: if she's going to bring her boyfriend home to meet the parents, she had better not be going empty handed. but as the only man in this particular debate, i subscribe to a research-mission theory that i call: "i don't want to get ripped-off at the jewelry store." i think the name is pretty self-explanatory.
beyond retail and rings, cyburkey day is a day spent searching on terms related to my favorite thing: food. recipe searches reveal that most of us don't start menu planning until thanksgiving week. and if last year is any indication, they also reveal that our favorite part of thanksgiving dinner is the holy trinity of desserts: "pumpkin pie," "pecan pie" and "apple pie." after desserts, people search mostly for the old standbys — "sweet potato casserole" and "green bean casserole." turkey-themed myspace profile's excepted, its nice to see that some things never change.
1. please translate the blue part into chinese.
2. what is the main idear of this article?
3. translate the blue part of the introduction into english!
參考答案:
1,當(dāng)我們沖向電腦查找站點,也許是在浪費(fèi)時間當(dāng)烤鳥肉或是開始我們的節(jié)日購物調(diào)查.數(shù)據(jù)現(xiàn)實一個好的網(wǎng)上交通部分在感恩節(jié)是搜索相關(guān)的-許多人隔天,黑色星期五在的脫機(jī)購物搜索相關(guān)信息.
2,tanksgiving is the most important holiday for americans ana many people will go shopping on the internet after it.
3,in 1620,some pilgrims go to america fortoleration by "may flowers".after 2 month-sailing on the sea,they disenbarked in a frostiness december.during the first winter,more than half of the immigrants were died of hunger and infectious disease,the surviving people bengan seminating in the first spring,that is 1621.the whole summer,they were strongly expected the coming of harvest,they deeply knew their survival and the existance of colonial was depending on the harvest at hand.finally,emblements got a unexpected bumper,to acknowledge the harvest given by god,they held 3-day jamboree.since then,the convention was continuing and in popular in every place.in 1863,chief executive lincon announced that every year,the fourth tursday as the thanksgiving day.the celebration of tahnksgiving was setted at this day till now.at that time,families reunite,nation celebate,the prosperous and impassioned situation is nothing less than chinese spring festival.