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These stories and poems of holidays will perhaps help you understand better what some of our holidays mean.
这些关于节日的故事和诗歌也许会帮助你更好地理解我们的一些节日意味着什么。
How did the boys and girls in these stories show that they knew the true meaning of a holiday?
这些故事中的男孩和女孩是如何表明他们知道假日的真正含义的？
Which of them did the most unselfish thing?
他们中谁做了最无私的事？
Which learned the greatest lesson?
哪一个得到了最大的教训？
It is easy to wish that other people were happy and having a good time.
人们很容易希望别人幸福快乐，过得愉快。
It is not very hard to help someone else when you do not have to give up anything yourself.
当你不需要自己放弃任何东西时，帮助别人并不难。
But to give up something you have dearly wanted for yourself in order to help someone else is a different matter.
但是为了帮助别人而放弃自己渴望的东西是另一回事。
Yet, strange to say, many people have found their greatest happiness in giving up things to help others.
然而，说来奇怪，许多人在放弃一些东西来帮助他人的过程中找到了最大的幸福。
Which holiday of the year do you like best?
你最喜欢一年中的哪个节日？
Can you tell why?
你能告诉我为什么吗？
Do you know the true meaning of the holiday you like best?
你知道你最喜欢的节日的真正含义吗？
Are you thankful only on Thanksgiving Day, and loyal to your country only on the Fourth of July?
难道你只在感恩节感恩，只在七月四日忠于你的国家吗？
Or do you try to spread out the meaning of these days over the whole year?
或者你是想把这些日子的意义分散到一整年？
A holiday should really be a day on which we show what we feel all the year through.
假期真的应该是一天，在这一天我们展示了我们一年来的感受。
