Mother’s Day, the day when we pay special tribute to mothers, motherhood and maternal bonds in general as well as to the positive contributions that they make to the society through their personal sacrifice and love and of course for putting up with us during those adolescent years.
* pay tribute to 歌頌
* putting up with 忍受
How did mother’s Day come about? Well it had its beginnings to the efforts of Julia Ward Howe who was a social activist and the author of song you might have heard of The Battle Hymn of the Republic. After the civil war Howe focused her activities on the causes of pacifism and women’s suffrage. In 1870, she wrote her mother’s day proclamation asking women from the world to join for world peace.
* come about 發生，產生
Mother’s Day may have never become officially recognized if it hadn’t been for the work of Ann Jarvis and her daughter Anna. In 1868, Ann Jarvis created a committee to established a mother’s friendship day to reunite families that had been divided by the civil war.
She finally succeeded in making it nationally recognized in 1914 when President Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation declaring the first national Mother’s Day. By the 1920’s Anna Jarvis became embittered by the commercialization of the holiday. She railed against the practice of purchasing greeting cards, which she saw it as a sign of being too lazy to write the more personal letter. She was even once arrested in 1948 for disturbing the peace during a protest against the commercialization of the holiday. She and her sister spent the family inheritance campaigning against what the holiday had become. Sadly both died in poverty as a result.
* rail against 抱怨，責罵
In most countries, Mother’s Day is a recent observance derived from the holiday as it has evolved in the United Sates. As adopted by other countries and cultures, the holiday has different meanings. It’s associated with different religious historical or legendary events and is celebrated on different dates but one thing remains the same.