TAKE our daughters and sons to work day

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There is an unusual holiday in the US that falls on the fourth Thursday of April every year. It is very different from Christmas， Thanksgiving， or other wellknown holidays. It is called Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day.

美国在每年四月份的第四个周四是一个不常见的节日。这个节日和圣诞节、感恩节等其它著名的节日有很大的不同。这个节日被称为“带女儿儿子上班日”。

This holiday is meant to be educational as well as fun. The idea is simple， and the name says it all. It is a day for working parents to take their children to work for one day and show them what they do all day.

这个节日意味着教育性，也有着趣味性。概念很简单，顾名思义，在这一天，有工作的父母们带着自己的孩子上一天班，给孩子展示他们一整天的工作内容。

It is a nonprofit1 educational program in the United States， Canada and Australia. In the Canadian province of Ontario， it occurs on the 1st Wednesday of November. In Sydney， Melbourne， and Brisbane， Australia， it occurs on January 5th， just after Christmas Break.

在美国、加拿大和澳大利亚，这都是个非盈利性质的教育项目。加拿大安大略省将这个节日定在十一月的第一个周三；澳大利亚的悉尼、墨尔本和布里斯班则定在一月五号，正好在圣诞假期之后。

It was created in New York in the summer of 1992 by the Ms. Foundation2 for Women and its president， Marie C. Wilson， the Womens foundation treasurer3， Ms. Daren Ball， and with support from foundation founder Gloria Steinem. The first celebration4 took place on April 22nd， 1993.

该节日于1992年夏天在纽约，由女士基金会和基金会主席玛丽·C·威尔逊及基金会财务主管戴尔仁·波女士，在基金会创始人格洛丽亚·斯坦尼恩的支持下共同创立。首次慶祝该节日是在1993年4月22日。

Although this holiday doesnt seem very complex5， it has meaningful6 purposes. There are many good reasons why a child should know what his or her parents do at work. For one thing， it is hard for children to understand the life of an adult when all they know is school. So this holiday helps children learn what it means to have a job. It also helps them learn about the differences and similarities7 between their world and the grownup world. When young people know more about their parents lives， they can form stronger parentchild relationships8. This alone is worth a day of celebration.

尽管这个节日看起来不算很复杂，但目的却很有意义。（人们）有充分的理由说明为什么孩子应该知道自己的父母上班时在做些什么的。首先当孩子们所知的只有学校的时候，他们很难理解成年人的生活。所以这个节日可以帮助孩子理解工作是什么，还能帮他们理解自己的世界和成年人世界的不同与相同之处。当孩子们对父母的生活有更多的了解后，他们就能够建立更牢固的亲子关系。仅仅是这一点，就值得用一天（作为节日）来庆祝。