关于妇女节的英语小故事

关于妇女节的英语小故事
关于妇女节的英语小故事

关于妇女节的英语小故事
International Women's Day (8 March) is an occasion marked by women's groups around the world.This date is also commemorated at the United Nations and is designated in many countries as a national holiday.When women on all continents,often divided by national boundaries and by ethnic,linguistic,cultural,economic and political differences,come together to celebrate their Day,they can look back to a tradition that represents at least nine decades of struggle for equality,justice,peace and development.
International Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men.In ancient Greece,Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution,Parisian women calling for "liberty,equality,fraternity" marched on Versailles to demand women's suffrage.
The idea of an International Women's Day first arose at the turn of the century,which in the industrialized world was a period of expansion and turbulence,booming population growth and radical ideologies.Following is a brief chronology of the most important events:
1909
In accordance with a declaration by the Socialist Party of America,the first National Woman's Day was observed across the United States on 28 February.Women continued to celebrate it on the last Sunday of that month through 1913.
1910
The Socialist International,meeting in Copenhagen,established a Women's Day,international in character,to honour the movement for women's rights and to assist in achieving universal suffrage for women.The proposal was greeted with unanimous approval by the conference of over 100 women from 17 countries,which included the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament.No fixed date was selected for the observance.
1911
As a result of the decision taken at Copenhagen the previous year,International Women's Day was marked for the first time (19 March) in Austria,Denmark,Germany and Switzerland,where more than one million women and men attended rallies.In addition to the right to vote and to hold public office,they demanded the right to work,to vocational training and to an end to discrimination on the job.
Less than a week later,on 25 March,the tragic Triangle Fire in New York City took the lives of more than 140 working girls,most of them Italian and Jewish immigrants.This event had a significant impact on labour legislation in the United States,and the working conditions leading up to the disaster were invoked during subsequent observances of International Women's Day.
1913-1914
As part of the peace movement brewing on the eve of World War I,Russian women observed their first International Women's Day on the last Sunday in February 1913.Elsewhere in Europe,on or around 8 March of the following year,women held rallies either to protest the war or to express solidarity with their sisters.
1917
With 2 million Russian soldiers dead in the war,Russian women again chose the last Sunday in February to strike for "bread and peace".Political leaders opposed the timing of the strike,but the women went on anyway.The rest is history:Four days later the Czar was forced to abdicate and the provisional Government granted women the right to vote.That historic Sunday fell on 23 February on the Julian calendar then in use in Russia,but on 8 March on the Gregorian calendar in use elsewhere.
Since those early years,International Women's Day has assumed a new global dimension for women in developed and developing countries alike.The growing international women's movement,which has been strengthened by four global United Nations women's conferences,has helped make the commemoration a rallying point for coordinated efforts to demand women's rights and participation in the political and economic process.Increasingly,International Women's Day is a time to reflect on progress made,to call for change and to celebrate acts of courage and determination by ordinary women who have played an extraordinary role in the history of women's rights.
The Role of the United Nations
Few causes promoted by the United Nations have generated more intense and widespread support than the campaign to promote and protect the equal rights of women.The Charter of the United Nations,signed in San Francisco in 1945,was the first international agreement to proclaim gender equality as a fundamental human right.Since then,the Organization has helped create a historic legacy of internationally agreed strategies,standards,programmes and goals to advance the status of women worldwide.
Over the years,United Nations action for the advancement of women has taken four clear directions:promotion of legal measures; mobilization of public opinion and international action; training and research,including the compilation of gender desegregated statistics; and direct assistance to disadvantaged groups.Today a central organizing principle of the work of the United Nations is that no enduring solution to society's most threatening social,economic and political problems can be found without the full participation,and the full empowerment,of the world's women.

Do you know what is the most precious and everlasting thing in the world?
Money? You may lose everything you have if you do not use money carefully enough. Youth? In one?''s long life youth is li...

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Do you know what is the most precious and everlasting thing in the world?
Money? You may lose everything you have if you do not use money carefully enough. Youth? In one?''s long life youth is like a flash in the pan and no one in the world has the secret to keep his youth forever. Beautiful look? Many people pray that they can get hold of beauty, but it disappears far more quickly than they can imagine. And when they are in real trouble beauty itself feels helpless. A good job? As you grow older and your brain and hands cannot work as fast as before, it will become other people?''s wealth.
Then what is the most precious and ev－erlasting thing in the world?
When you are far away from your fam－ily and feel especially lonely, who will you think of? When you stand on the crossroad in your life and do not know which way to choose, who will you think of? When you encounter greater difficulties than ever and need other?''s encouragement, who will you think of? When you decide to make the greatest decision in your favorite course, who will you think of? Who gave birth to you? Who brought you up? Who shed cheer－ful tears when seeing you make achieve－ments? Whose wholehearted blessing will be always with you no matter how far you will go?
Yes, it''s mother that you will always think of and it''s mother''s love that will be always together with you.
I once heard a moving story about a mother. Two children were drawn into the flood and the situation was very dangerous. Their mother jumped into the water without the least hesitation. But you know the moth－er could not swim at all. Jumping into the water means she might lose her life. But at that time she had no time to think about herself. She just wanted to try all means to save her children.
Maybe her courage moved the God. The miracle happened. She finally succeeded in saving her children one by one. And she, of course, felt extremely ex－hausted.
My friends, mother''s love is the greatest love. Mother''s love is the safest love. No matter you are happy or sorrowful, rich or poor, mother''s love will always stay with you.
Thank you all!
伟大的母爱
亲爱的朋友：
你知道什么是世界上最珍贵、最永恒的事物吗？金钱？不！不是！因为即使你腰缠万贯，但如果挥霍无度的话，你也会有不名一文的时候。青春？也不是！在人漫长的一生中，青春如昙花一现，稍纵即逝，世界上谁也没有永葆青春的秘诀。也许你会说美貌，我觉得也不是。尽管很多人都希望美丽常在，可是往往不如人意，况且我们一旦陷入困境时，即使拥有美貌，那也无能为力。那么，一个好的工作应该是了吧？但是，朋友，你应意识到，随着年龄的逐渐增大，我们一天天在衰老，思维呢，不如以前敏捷；手脚呢，也不如人家灵活。这时，你不能胜任那个工作了，即使它再好，也不得不拱手相让。
那么，到底什么才是世界上最珍贵、最永恒的事物呢？
当你远离家乡漂泊异地，倍感孤单寂寞的时候，你会想到谁？当你站在人生的十字路口，迷惘彷徨，不知何去何从时，你会想到谁？当你在挫折和痛苦面前悲观、叹息、失望，急需别人的安慰和鼓励时，你会想到谁？人生道路，需要你做出重大抉择时，你会想起谁？是谁给了你最初的生命，把你带到这个世界，享受多姿多彩的生活？是谁教你说话，教你走路，含辛茹苦把你抚养成人？当你取得成绩时，谁会激动得泪流满面？谁的祝福，无论你走得多远，都会围绕在你身边，直到永远？
是的，种种情况下，你想得最多的就是母亲，因为，你知道也相信，母亲的爱是永远和你在一起的。
我曾听到过这样一个关于母亲的感人故事：两个小孩不幸被卷入洪水中，也许一瞬间他们幼小的生命就将被无情的大水所吞噬。可就在这危急时刻，他们的母亲毫不犹豫地跳进了那正在怒吼着的洪水之中……同学们，洪水是无情的！可更让我们担心的是，这位母亲根本不会游泳！跳入水中也就意味着她可能失去她自己宝贵的生命！但是，那个救孩子心切的母亲根本没有时间去考虑她自己，她心里装的只是那两个孩子，那两个将被洪水夺去生命的孩子，她必须想方设法去抢救他们。也许她的勇气和她那无私的伟大的母爱感动了上帝，奇迹发生了：她竟然成功地把两个小孩的生命从无情的洪水中抢了回来！毫无疑问，与洪水一番搏斗之后，这位母亲也筋疲力尽了。
朋友们，母爱是伟大的，母爱也是最安全的，不管你是快乐还是悲伤，富裕还是贫穷，母亲的爱都将永远和你在一起。

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