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Everything You Know about Thanksgiving is WRONG

感恩节其实是个血腥节日？！

And I'm thankful for my kindergarten class who made these wonderful crafts to celebrate Thanksgiving.

我很感谢我在幼稚园的班级做了这些美丽作品来庆祝感恩节。

After the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims survive their first winter in America, the Puritans invited them to share the first Thanksgiving.

印地安人帮助清教徒撑过他们在美国的第一个寒冬后，清教徒邀他们共度首个感恩节。

Aww, these are adorably...wrong.

啊，这些真是...大错特错得可爱啊。

A five-year-old made that.

一个五岁小孩写的。

Based off of the lies that you taught them.

根据你教他们的谎言。

Excuse me?

不好意思？

Oh, it's not your fault! These are full of half-truths and historical propaganda.

噢，这不是你的错!历史课本充满半真半假事实和历史的宣传。

I thought the Native Americans and the Pilgrims were, like, besties, or whatever.

我以为印地安人和清教徒就像，好麻吉还是什么的。

At best, the Pilgrims and Wampanoags could be described as "political allies." By the time the Pilgrims showed up, not only were two-thirds of the Massachusetts tribes completely wiped out by European slave owners and diseases, the Pilgrims were constantly at war with the indigenous people and routinely tortured them.

充其量，清教徒和 Wampanoags 族人只能被形容成“政治盟友”。清教徒出现时，不只有三分之二的麻州部落被欧洲奴隶主和疾病完全摧毁，清教徒还不断和原住民交战，且经常折磨他们。

But what about Squanto, the Native American who learned English to help out the Pilgrims?

但史广多呢，那个学英文来帮助清教徒脱困的印地安人？

He was actually a slave that was hauled off to Europe, and then he learned English so that he could escape.

他其实是个被带去欧洲的奴隶，然后他学英文好让自己能逃跑。

But they did celebrate it every year, right?

但他们确实每年庆祝感恩节，对吧？

Not exactly. The next one was 16 years later and, unfortunately, it was because the Puritans were celebrating the massacre of the Piqua tribe. Back then, Thanksgiving was also for families—specifically, murdering them.

不完全正确。下一个感恩节是在十六年后，而且不幸地是，那是因为清教徒在庆祝 Piqua 部落大屠杀。那时，感恩节也是和家族有关——特别是去谋杀他们。

Okay! We get it! History's awful, the Puritans were terrible, and now we have to let our children know that the holiday started with tons of killings. Happy?

好!我们懂了!历史很糟、清教徒很可怕，现在我们得让我们的孩子了解这节日是从一堆打打杀杀开始的。满意了吗？

Well, we actually have just about everything wrong with the Thanksgiving myth. Definitely didn't wear these buckle hats. Didn't land on Plymouth Rock. And as for that turkey...

这个嘛，我们其实几乎完全搞错了感恩节的传说。肯定没有戴这些钮扣帽子。没有在普里茅斯岩登陆。至于那只火鸡嘛...

Oh no, not the turkey...

噢不，不要是火鸡啊...

More like venison, fowl, and eel.

比较像是吃鹿肉、野禽还有鳗鱼。

Oh!!!

噢!!!

Who cares about how this stupid holiday got started anyway?

反正谁在意这蠢节日是怎么开始的啦？

Exactly! In George Washington's 1789 Thanksgiving Proclamation, the settlers aren't mentioned, not even once. Thanksgiving wasn't celebrated nationwide until 1863 when this guy declared it a national holiday during the Civil War in order to bring the country together. That's why all of our foods are from the 19th century.

没错!在乔治·华盛顿 1789 年的感恩节宣告里，移民们根本没被提到，连一次都没有。感恩节到 1863 年才被举国庆祝，那时这家伙在内战期间宣布感恩节成为国定节日，好让整个国家团结起来。那就是为什么我们所有食物都是来自十九世纪的。

So Lincoln came up with the whole Indian/Pilgrim story?

所以林肯想出整个印地安人和清教徒的故事？

Nope. That myth didn't catch on till the 1900s, after we had fought and killed all the Native Americans. And then we put it in textbooks as fact. Because...America! But...the food is really good. And if you ignore all the terrible history like, you know, the murdering, the raping, the pillaging—still kind of a great holiday. Mmmm!

不。那迷思到二十世纪才流行起来，在我们打击并杀害所有印地安人后。然后我们才把这故事当作史实放到教科书里。因为...美国嘛!不过...这食物真的很美味。如果你不要理所有可怕的历史，像是，你知道，谋杀、强暴、掠夺啦－－还算是个满棒的节日。嗯嗯嗯!

So the Mayflower is a lie?

所以五月花号是个谎言？

Why do we eat cranberry sauce?

我们为什么要吃蔓越莓酱？

What about stuffing?

那火鸡馅料呢？

Is Black Friday really just a capitalist conspiracy to get poor people to buy things so we can't truly live out a populous revolt?

黑色星期五是否真的只是资本家的阴谋，让穷人们去买东西，好让穷人没办法真的执行人数众多的起义？

I am never telling you the truth ever again.

我永远不要再告诉你们真相了。

One historical narrative says that the Pilgrims were off firing their guns when the Wampanoag tribe just showed up, presumably to find out why the white folks were shooting up the place, which is a question that we still ask this very day.

一则历史故事描述，清教徒们正在开枪，在 Wampanoag 族人跑出来那时，他们大概是要看看为什么白人在扫射那地方，这是个我们如今仍在问的问题。

重点内容讲解

1.haul off 改变船的方向以躲避（某物），拉走

例句：Please get the state budget signed and pass first before you haul off and do something stupid. Thanks.

请先让州预算签字通过再滚去做蠢事吧。谢谢。

2.in order to 为了······

例句：Anne raised her voice in order to be heard.

为了让人能听得见，安妮提高了嗓门。

3.catch on 变得流行; 理解; 投合心意

例句：Skeptics just can't shake their doubts that plug-in hybrid and all-electric vehicles will catch on anytime soon.

许多人认为插电式混动汽车和全电动汽车不可能在短期内大范围流行起来。

4.live out （某一段时间），过（某种生活） 度过;

例句：I doubt if she'll live out the winter.

我看她活不过今年冬季。