062 嘿旗帜之北美

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Hey flag! Tell us about yourself

嘿，旗子！跟我们说说你自己吧。

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" I am the Mexican flag

“我是墨西哥国旗。

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I have three stripes, with the Mexican coat of arms in the middle stripe

我有三条竖纹，正中间的条纹上是墨西哥国徽。

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The coat of arms has a very special meaning because it symbolizes the Aztec people who lived in Mexico long ago

这个国徽有很特殊的含义，因为它象征着很久以前生活在墨西哥的阿兹特克人。

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According to legend, the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli told his people to settle where they saw an eagle sitting on a cactus and eating a snake

传说阿兹特克人的神祇维齐洛波奇特利告诉他的子民，要在他们看到一只鹰站在仙人掌上吃蛇的地方定居。

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After hundreds of years of wandering, they saw the eagle, the cactus, and the snake on an island in a lake

在漫游了数百年之后，他们在一个湖中的岛上看到了鹰、仙人掌和蛇。

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They built their city there, and that place is now Mexico City

他们就在那里建起了城市，那个地方就是现在的墨西哥城。

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There is a funny story about my red stripe

关于我的红色条纹，有个有趣的故事。

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When the Mexican people first made the flag, they wanted to use purple, not red

墨西哥人最初制作这面国旗时，本想用紫色，而不是红色。

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Purple represented Spain, which is where most of Mexico's people came from

因为紫色代表西班牙，而大多数墨西哥人源自那里。

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But they could not find any purple cloth, so they had to use red."

但他们找不到紫色的布料，所以只好用红色。”

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Hey, flag! Tell us about yourself

嘿，国旗！介绍一下你自己吧。

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" I am the flag of the United States of America

“我是美利坚合众国的国旗。

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Many people call me the Stars and Stripes

很多人都叫我星条旗。

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I have fifty stars, one for each of the states

我有五十颗星星，每一颗代表一个州。

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I also have thirteen stripes, seven red and six white, for each of the original states

我也有十三条横条，七红六白，代表最初的十三个州。

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I have changed over the years

这些年来我一直在变化。

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I didn't always have fifty stars

我并不总是有五十颗星星。

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Every time a new state was added, I got another star

每加入一个新州，我就会多一颗星星。

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This is how I looked in 1777

这是我在1777年的样子。

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I was first sewn by Betsy Ross

我是由贝茜·罗斯首次缝制的。

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President George Washington asked her to sew me

乔治·华盛顿总统请她来缝制我。

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She finished the flag in early June of 1776, just a month before the Declaration of Independence was read in Independence Hall

她在1776年6月初完成了这面旗帜，就在《独立宣言》在独立厅宣读前一个月。

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The American people are very patriotic

美国人民非常爱国。

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Many Americans see me as the greatest symbol of their nation

许多美国人视我为国家最伟大的象征。

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Every morning millions of schoolchildren recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag."

每天早晨，数百万学童会向国旗背诵效忠誓言。”

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Hey, flag! Tell us about yourself

嘿，国旗！给我们讲讲你自己吧。

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" I am the Canadian flag

“我是加拿大国旗。

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You can call me the Maple Leaf

你可以叫我枫叶旗。

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I did not become the Canadian flag until 1965

我直到1965年才成为加拿大国旗。

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Before that, Canadians used the Union Jack, which is the flag of Great Britain

在那之前，加拿大人使用的是英国国旗——联合杰克旗。

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But the people of Canada wanted to have their own flag

但加拿大人民希望拥有一面自己的国旗。

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The maple leaf has been a symbol of Canada for a very long time

枫叶作为加拿大的象征已有很长时间。

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In 1860 the Prince of Wales came to Canada for a visit

1860年，威尔士亲王到访加拿大。

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Everyone in Toronto came out into the streets to greet him

多伦多的所有人都来到街上迎接他。

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The people who were born in England wore a rose on their shirts, and the people born in Scotland wore a thistle

在英格兰出生的人在衬衫上佩戴玫瑰花，在苏格兰出生的人佩戴蓟花，

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but there was nothing for the people born in Canada to wear

但生于加拿大的人却没有可以佩戴的东西。

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So they chose to wear a maple leaf from the Canadian maple tree

于是他们选择佩戴一片来自加拿大枫树的枫叶。

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From that day on, the maple leaf truly became a Canadian symbol

从那天起，枫叶真正成为了加拿大的象征。

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Many people believe that my two red stripes represent the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, with a vast and great country between them."

许多人认为我的两条红色条纹代表着太平洋和大西洋，中间夹着一个辽阔而伟大的国家。”

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Your flag can tell you a lot about your country

你的国旗能告诉你许多关于你国家的信息。

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What does your flag mean?

你的国旗意味着什么？