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The Thanksgiving day Macy's parade is held in New York city and begins the countdown to Christmas.
感恩节梅西百货大游行在纽约市举行，开始了圣诞节的倒计时。
Thousands line the streets of Manhattan on Thursday to catch a glimpse of the annual spectacle.
周四，成千上万的人站在曼哈顿的街道上，一睹这一年一度的奇观。
It's just amazing, the details that you see up close when you're here instead of just on TV.
在这里近距离看到的细节真是太神奇了，不仅仅是在电视上观看的那样。
I think post-pandemic to see so many people out, celebrating and having a wonderful time, it warms my heart and yay, New York is back and here to stay.
我认为，疫情后，看到这么多人出去庆祝，度过了美好的时光，这让我感到温暖，是的，纽约回来了，并将持久存在。
The parade traces its roots back to 1924 when many Macy's employees were first generation Americans who wanted to create a winter parade like they experienced in Europe.
游行的起源可以追溯到1924年，当时梅西百货的许多员工都是第一代美国人，他们想要举办一场像欧洲那样的冬季游行。
New York city has always been an immigrant city and there were a tremendous number of immigrants working at Macy's at the time as they were in any New York city department store.
纽约市一直是一个移民城市，当时有大量的移民在梅西百货工作，就像在纽约市的任何一家百货公司一样。
And I think that they were definitely bringing back some of their Christmas traditions from the countries that they had come from.
我认为他们肯定是从自己的祖国带回了一些圣诞节的传统。
Angus Johnson explains that the giant balloons were introduced 3 years later with a unique twist.
安格斯·约翰逊解释说，巨型气球是在三年后以一种独特的方式引入的。
In the early years of the parade when they started with the balloons, they would release them at the end of the parade and give an offer a $100 reward to anybody who was able to track one down and find them.
在早期游行的那几年，他们会将气球作为开场，游行结束时释放气球，并给任何能够追踪并找到气球的人100美元的奖励。
The parade has run almost consecutively for 97 years except for a break during world war ii.
除了第二次世界大战期间有过中断外，游行几乎连续举行了97年。
From 1942 to 44 they suspended the parade because the rubber and the helium that were used in the balloons were needed for the war effort.
从1942年到1944年，他们暂停了游行，因为用于气球的橡胶和氦气需要用于战争。
And then they brought it back in 1945.
然后他们在1945年把这一传统带了回来。
Almost a 100 years later, today's balloons can stretch up to five or six stories high.
大约100年后，今天的气球可以伸展到五到六层楼高。
Each balloon in the Macy's Thanksgiving parade requires 8,000 to 19,000 cubic meters of helium with filling costs reaching a minimum of a half a million dollar.
梅西感恩节游行中的每个气球需要8000到19000立方米的氦气，填充成本至少达到50万美元。
Additionally, each balloon requires 80 to 100 volunteer handlers.
此外，每个气球需要80到100名志愿者操纵。
