父爱的尺度(翻译).docVIP

PAGE  PAGE 5 第二十届韩素音青年翻译奖赛参赛译文 中译英 《父爱的尺度》 郑庆祝 The Yardstick of Father’s Love (excerpt) In 1924, U.S. President John Calvin Coolidge (1872-1933) proposed the Father’s Day a nation-wide festival so as to “establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations. In 1972, President Richard Nixon (1913-1994) officially signed the bill to designate the Father’s Day a festival, which later spread around the world gradually. Today, Chinese townsfolk, who always value parenthood education and emphasize father’s