男女羞羞视频在线观看,国产精品黄色免费,麻豆91在线视频,美女被羞羞免费软件下载,国产的一级片,亚洲熟色妇,天天操夜夜摸,一区二区三区在线电影
English 中文網(wǎng) 漫畫網(wǎng) 愛新聞iNews 翻譯論壇
中國網(wǎng)站品牌欄目(頻道)
當前位置: Language Tips > Normal Speed News VOA常速

Debate over US flag designer continues

[ 2012-06-12 17:30]     字號 [] [] []  
免費訂閱30天China Daily雙語新聞手機報:移動用戶編輯短信CD至106580009009

Debate over US flag designer continues

It's going to be a busy day at Betsy Ross's house in Philadelphia on Thursday. She won't be there, since she died in 1836, but hundreds of tourists will be going through her house.

You see, Thursday is Flag Day in the United States. The unofficial holiday commemorates the adoption of the stars-and-stripes design of the American flag by the Continental Congress 235 years ago, on June 14, 1777.

According to lore, the Ross House is the birthplace of the nation's flag. That's open to debate, but it's a story that schoolbooks still tell.

Debate over US flag designer continues

Betsy Ross was a seamstress, busy upholstering furniture in Philadelphia, which was the focal point of the American revolution against British rule.

The Declaration of Independence by the colonists was signed there, and so was the new nation's Constitution after independence was won.

Widowed when her husband, a member of the local militia, was killed in a gunpowder explosion, Betsy Ross often mended the clothes of the rebels' leader and future US president, George Washington.

According to what some say is history and others a stretch of what really happened, Washington asked Ross to design and sew the new nation's flag.

The story was promoted by Ross's grandson, who wrote that Betsy Ross had "made with her hands the first flag."

She became a role model for girls - a shining example of women's contributions to the nation's history.

Debate over US flag designer continues

Most research indicates that Ross did sew the first flag.

She's credited with substituting artful five-point white stars for six-pointed ones in the upper-left blue field.

But many other accounts indicate George Washington brought the design to Ross and simply asked her to stitch it together.

In a letter, Washington wrote: "We take the stars from Heaven, the red from our mother country, separating it by white stripes, thus showing that we have separated from her. And the white stripes shall go down to posterity [as] representing liberty."

That's deeper thinking than a humble seamstress would have come up with, according to those who doubt that Betsy Ross created the first American flag from scratch.

seamstress: 女裁縫師

Related stories:

美學生如廁后用國旗擦手被停學

To fly the flag 搖旗吶喊

美國國歌的前世今生

英國米字旗是對稱的嗎?

(來源:VOA 編輯:旭燕)

 
中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津版權說明:凡注明來源為“中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津:XXX(署名)”的原創(chuàng)作品,除與中國日報網(wǎng)簽署英語點津內容授權協(xié)議的網(wǎng)站外,其他任何網(wǎng)站或單位未經(jīng)允許不得非法盜鏈、轉載和使用,違者必究。如需使用,請與010-84883631聯(lián)系;凡本網(wǎng)注明“來源:XXX(非英語點津)”的作品,均轉載自其它媒體,目的在于傳播更多信息,其他媒體如需轉載,請與稿件來源方聯(lián)系,如產(chǎn)生任何問題與本網(wǎng)無關;本網(wǎng)所發(fā)布的歌曲、電影片段,版權歸原作者所有,僅供學習與研究,如果侵權,請?zhí)峁┌鏅嘧C明,以便盡快刪除。
 

關注和訂閱

人氣排行

翻譯服務

中國日報網(wǎng)翻譯工作室

我們提供:媒體、文化、財經(jīng)法律等專業(yè)領域的中英互譯服務
電話:010-84883468
郵件:translate@chinadaily.com.cn
 
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 建德市| 松阳县| 临桂县| 闸北区| 安丘市| 隆德县| 白城市| 扬州市| 娄底市| 六枝特区| 高雄县| 正安县| 涡阳县| 凉山| 潮州市| 龙井市| 南郑县| 苍山县| 高雄县| 治县。| 北宁市| 溆浦县| 仁布县| 呼图壁县| 德安县| 潍坊市| 六安市| 饶河县| 平遥县| 博客| 娄烦县| 改则县| 桃源县| 阿克陶县| 长武县| 方正县| 寻乌县| 青海省| 邢台市| 扶绥县| 江安县| 韩城市| 堆龙德庆县| 宜阳县| 西林县| 巴南区| 化州市| 东山县| 丽水市| 呼图壁县| 扶风县| 胶南市| 丰县| 昌宁县| 牙克石市| 合山市| 元氏县| 富民县| 达尔| 富锦市| 屯昌县| 石棉县| 安宁市| 会泽县| 芒康县| 丹棱县| 克山县| 乌拉特后旗| 徐州市| 徐水县| 玉林市| 诏安县| 桐梓县| 古田县| 景洪市| 进贤县| 内乡县| 宁海县| 太谷县| 怀集县| 翁源县| 潼关县|