世界節(jié)假日博覽 第1期:新年

New Year’s Day is, of course, the first day of the year. It is a national holiday in most countries around the world. It is a time when families get together and celebrate with a meal. Many people make new plans for the rest of the year. These plans are called New Year resolutions. People decide to lose weight, get fit, stop smoking, study English every day or save lots of money. I think most people are serious about these plans on January 1st, but then forget about them before the end of the week. Then one year later, it’s New Year’s Day all over again and people make the same resolutions again. I guess people all around the world make the same kinds of plans. I guess they also break their resolutions at the same time.

自然，新年就是一年的第一天。在全世界的許多國(guó)家，新年都是一個(gè)全國(guó)性的假日。這一天家人團(tuán)聚，享用美味佳肴，慶祝新年。在這一天許多人會(huì)制定全年計(jì)劃。人們把這些計(jì)劃稱之為新年愿望。人們下決心要減肥、健身、戒煙、每天學(xué)習(xí)英語(yǔ)或是存一大筆錢。我認(rèn)為許多人在1月1號(hào)這一天都是以認(rèn)真的太對(duì)對(duì)待這些計(jì)劃，但是還沒(méi)到周末就忘得一干二凈。一年之后又是新年，人們又制定了與前年一樣的計(jì)劃。我猜全世界的人們都會(huì)制定相同的計(jì)劃。我想他們也會(huì)同時(shí)忘掉自己的愿望。

One thing I like about New Year’s Day are the TV programmes that look back at the previous year. They are like highlights shows of the news. These always remind me how lucky I am because a lot of the news is about wars, famines, natural disasters, plane crashes and other terrible things. The shows also look back at the lives of people who died that year. Hmmm… That all sounds a bit depressing really. But then there are happier things, like the top sports and music stories. Another thing that happens on New Year’s Day is lists. The top ten movies of the year, the ten best sporting achievements of the year, etc. There is even a list for the top ten new English words of the year. Previous winners of this are the words ‘blog’ and ‘podcast’.

我對(duì)新年的喜愛(ài)原因之一，就是這一天的電視節(jié)目會(huì)回顧上一年的事件。比如重點(diǎn)新聞集錦。這些時(shí)時(shí)提醒著我，我有多幸運(yùn)，因?yàn)檫@些新聞都是關(guān)于戰(zhàn)爭(zhēng)、饑荒、自然災(zāi)害、飛機(jī)失事以及其他災(zāi)難性事件。節(jié)目還會(huì)回顧這一年所離世的人們的生活。恩……這些聽(tīng)起來(lái)確實(shí)令人感覺(jué)有些壓抑。但是這一年也有好事發(fā)生，例如頂級(jí)體育賽事和音樂(lè)故事。上一年的一些清單也會(huì)在新年這天產(chǎn)生，像年度十佳電影、年度十佳體育成就等。甚至還會(huì)有“年度新詞前十”。去年獲此殊榮的單詞是“博客”和“ 播客”。