Unit 2 Let’s Celebrate! 课文中英对照 清单-2026-2027学年高中英语外研版必修第二册

该高中英语单元围绕“庆祝”主题，系统梳理节日文化与语言应用知识体系。从西方节日（如圣诞节、黑色星期五）到中国传统节日（元宵节、春节），涵盖节日相关词汇、邀请礼仪表达、事实与观点区分及跨文化节日现象分析，构建从文化认知到语言实践的学习支架。 知识链路按“节日文化介绍—礼仪规范—观点讨论—写作应用”逻辑展开，融合文化意识（中外节日对比、春节全球化）、思维品质（事实与观点区分、年夜饭观点辩证分析）和语言能力（邀请表达、写作素材应用），通过多语篇联动培养综合素养，适合高中英语教学使用。

Unit 2 Let’s Celebrate! / 一起来庆祝吧 本单元共收录 9 篇（组）英文语篇。 1. J.R.R. Tolkien / J.R.R.托尔金 J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973) was an English writer, poet and university professor, best known as the author of some of the world’s most popular high-fantasy novels. With his limitless imagination, he created new worlds for his readers to explore. His novels The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings have been made into films. J.R.R.托尔金（1892-1973）是英国作家、诗人和大学教授，最为人熟知的身份是世界上一些最受欢迎的高幻想小说的作者。他凭借无穷的想象力，为读者创造了一个个可以探索的崭新世界。他的小说《霍比特人》和《指环王》均已被改编成电影。 2. The Real Father Christmas / 真正的圣诞老人 Many people still remember the magic of Father Christmas from when they were children. As parents, they try to keep that magic alive for their children for as long as they can. That is why Letters from Father Christmas could be the perfect book for those who regard Christmas as a special time of year. The man who wrote these letters is one of the most famous names in English literature - J.R.R. Tolkien, author of The Lord of the Rings. The letters were Tolkien’s way of keeping Father Christmas alive for his four children, over a period of more than twenty years. Every Christmas, an envelope with a North Pole stamp arrived. It was addressed to Tolkien’s children. Who could it be from? The children must have been very excited as they opened it. Inside, they would find a handwritten letter from Father Christmas. The letters were also beautifully illustrated - each must have taken its true author, Tolkien, a long time to complete. The letters told wonderful stories about Father Christmas’s life and adventures at the North Pole. A regular character in the letters was Polar Bear, who once climbed the North Pole - an actual pole in this case - and fell through the roof of Father Christmas’s house. In another letter, Father Christmas complained about how he could not stop his helpers playing games with the toys instead of wrapping them up. Interestingly, the letters did not contain the usual warnings to children that they might not receive their presents if they were not good. The letters did, however, change as Tolkien’s children got older: “... but if you find that not many of the things you asked for have come, and not perhaps quite as many as sometimes, remember that this Christmas all over the world there are a terrible number of poor and starving people.” Letters from Father Christmas tells us that as well as enjoying the adventures of Father Christmas, Polar Bear and other characters at the North Pole, we can all share the true spirit of giving at Christmas time. By expressing love for his children in such a special way, Tolkien may indeed have been the real Father Christmas. 许多人至今仍记得童年时圣诞老人带来的神奇感受。为人父母后，他们也会尽可能长久地为自己的孩子延续这份魔力。 正因如此，对于把圣诞节视为一年中特别时光的人来说，《圣诞老人的来信》或许是一本再合适不过的书。写下这些信的人，是英国文学史上最著名的名字之一——《指环王》的作者J.R.R.托尔金。在二十多年的时间里，托尔金通过这些信，让圣诞老人一直活在四个孩子的心中。 每年圣诞节，都会有一只盖着北极邮戳的信封寄到家中，收件人是托尔金的孩子们。信会是谁写来的呢？孩子们拆开信封时一定兴奋极了。里面是一封圣诞老人亲笔写的信。信中还配有精美的插图——真正的作者托尔金完成每一封信，想必都要花很长时间。 这些信讲述了圣诞老人在北极的生活和历险，其中有许多精彩故事。北极熊是信中的常驻角色。有一次，它爬上了“北极”——这里真的是一根柱子——结果从圣诞老人家的屋顶掉了下去。另一封信里，圣诞老人抱怨说，他的助手们只顾拿玩具做游戏，怎么也不肯把玩具包装起来。有趣的是，这些信并没有像通常那样警告孩子：表现不好就可能收不到礼物。不过，随着托尔金的孩子们渐渐长大，信的内容的确发生了变化： “……如果你发现自己想要的东西没有来多少，也许不像往年那么多，请记住，今年圣诞节，世界各地都有数量多得可怕的贫困者和挨饿的人。” 《圣诞老人的来信》告诉我们：除了欣赏圣诞老人、北极熊和北极其他角色的奇妙历险，我们也能够在圣诞节分享给予他人的真正精神。托尔金以这样特别的方式表达对孩子的爱，从这个意义上说，他或许真的就是那位圣诞老人。 3. Black Friday / “黑色星期五” Black Friday is one of the busiest shopping days of the year. Stores have big sales and open their doors very early. “黑色星期五”是一年中最繁忙的购物日之一。商店会进行大规模促销，并在一大早就开门营业。 4. Lantern Festival Celebrations / 元宵节庆祝活动 To celebrate the Lantern Festival, we decorate our windows with balloons and posters. We’ll hold a lantern riddles competition, too. Come and join us! In our restaurant, we offer Western dinners and desserts. But to celebrate this festival, we prepare Chinese dishes, too. Rice balls are very popular. Today, I gave my aunt some flowers and a scarf. I received a red envelope from her. The lantern fair attracts a lot of people, so it’s one of the busiest times of year for the traffic police. We do our best to help the traffic police keep everyone safe. The fireworks will start at 8:00 this evening in Renmin Square. 为了庆祝元宵节，我们用气球和海报装饰窗户，还会举办猜灯谜比赛。欢迎大家参加！ 我们餐厅平时供应西式正餐和甜点，不过为了庆祝这个节日，也会准备中式菜肴。汤圆尤其受欢迎。 今天，我送给姑姑鲜花和一条围巾，她则给了我一个红包。 灯会吸引了许多人，因此元宵节也是交警一年中最忙碌的时段之一。我们会尽力协助交警，保障所有人的安全。 今晚八点，人民广场将开始燃放烟花。 5. Festival Invitations / 节日邀请礼仪 Traditionally, people send written invitations for formal events such as weddings. Similarly, these invitations are answered in writing. For more informal events, however, spoken invitations are more common. Remember to arrive on time if you accept the invitation. Depending on regional customs, it may be acceptable to be 15 to 30 minutes late. It is not advisable to be early, as the host may not be ready. 按照传统，婚礼等正式活动通常采用书面邀请，受邀者也要以书面形式答复。不过，对于较为随意的活动，口头邀请更为常见。 接受邀请后要记得准时到达。根据不同地区的习俗，迟到15至30分钟有时也可以接受；但不建议提前到场，因为主人可能还没有准备好。 6. Accepting an Invitation / 接受邀请时应注意的信息 When you are extending or accepting an invitation, pay special attention to the following information: the date and time, what to bring, where to meet, and so on. 发出或接受邀请时，要特别留意以下信息：日期和时间、需要携带的物品、见面地点等。 7. Time for a Change? / 是时候改变了吗？ A family dinner is an important tradition to celebrate Spring Festival. Nowadays, some people choose to have the dinner in a restaurant, but not everyone is keen on this idea. What do our readers think? Dear Editor, We have eaten out for the Spring Festival family dinner for the last three years, and we have enjoyed it no less than eating at home. I don’t understand why some people refuse to embrace the change. Can’t they admit that the preparations for the dinner are hard work? I really don’t think it’s worth the effort of spending so much time preparing for a single meal, and then another hour cleaning up the mess after it’s over. We work all year, so why can’t one day be about spending time with family and relaxing? Eating out is a good choice and it has nothing to do with loss of traditions. We still have the dinner with the same people, just in a different place. The occasion is more enjoyable without all that tiring cooking, and the dishes taste better! In my opinion, what or where we eat on Spring Festival Eve really doesn’t matter. Eating out may change the form of this tradition, but the love between the family members sitting around the table together remains the same. Wang Peng, software engineer Dear Editor, For this year’s Spring Festival family dinner, my son has booked a table at the best restaurant in town, but I’m a bit unhappy about it. For me, it just won’t feel like Spring Festival having the dinner out. When I was a little boy, the dinner on the eve of Spring Festival was what I looked forward to most. It was not only for the delicious food that we seldom got to eat, but for the opportunity to have our whole family gathered together. I would run around the house, listening to the adults chatting about their year. I’d get under my mother’s feet in the kitchen, watching her make dumplings. She’d put tokens in some dumplings: candies for a sweet life and peanuts for a long and healthy one. In the evening, all of us would sit around the table, enjoying the food and being together again. We toasted each other, we laughed, and the simple, homemade dishes tasted more delicious than anything cooked by a top chef. I hope my children and their children will still value our memories of preparing the dinner together. To me, the process is even more important than the dinner itself. Liu Yonghui, retired teacher 年夜饭是庆祝春节的一项重要传统。如今，有些人选择到餐馆吃年夜饭，但并非人人都赞同这种做法。来看看我们的读者怎么说。 编辑您好： 过去三年，我们家的年夜饭都是在外面吃的，得到的快乐一点也不比在家吃少。我不明白，为什么有些人拒绝接受这种变化。 难道他们不能承认，准备年夜饭是一项非常辛苦的工作吗？为了区区一顿饭花那么长时间准备，吃完后还要再花一个小时收拾残局，我实在觉得不值得。我们辛苦工作了一整年，为什么不能拿出一天时间陪伴家人、好好放松呢？ 外出就餐是个不错的选择，与丢失传统毫无关系。我们仍然和同样的家人共进晚餐，只是换了一个地点。省去了令人疲惫的烹饪过程，大家会更加享受聚会，而且餐馆的菜也更美味！ 在我看来，除夕吃什么、在哪里吃并不重要。外出就餐或许改变了这一传统的形式，但围坐桌旁的家人之间的爱始终没有改变。 软件工程师 王鹏 编辑您好： 今年的年夜饭，我儿子在城里最好的餐馆订了桌，但我有些不高兴。对我来说，在外面吃年夜饭就没有过春节的感觉了。 我小时候，除夕晚餐是最盼望的事情。让我期待的，不只是那些平时难得吃到的美味，更是全家团聚的机会。我会在屋里跑来跑去，听大人们谈论过去一年的经历；也会在厨房里围着母亲转，看她包饺子。她会在一些饺子里放入彩头：糖果象征生活甜蜜，花生象征健康长寿。到了晚上，我们全家围坐在桌旁，一边品尝食物，一边享受再次团聚的时光。大家相互敬酒、开怀大笑，那些朴素的家常菜，比顶级厨师做的任何佳肴都更美味。 我希望我的孩子以及他们的孩子，今后仍会珍视全家一起准备年夜饭的回忆。对我而言，准备的过程甚至比这顿饭本身更加重要。 退休教师 刘永辉 8. Facts and Opinions / 事实与观点 A fact is something that exists or has happened, for example, an object, event or experience. Facts are statements that can be proved by evidence. An opinion can be a general or individual view, belief or impression. Opinions can sometimes be identified by the presence of words such as “feel”, “believe” and “think”. 事实是确实存在或已经发生的事物，例如某个物体、事件或经历。事实性陈述能够通过证据加以证明。观点则可以是普遍或个人的看法、信念或印象。有时，我们可以根据“感觉”“相信”“认为”等词语来识别观点。 9. Writing Material: Chinese Spring Festival Going Global / 写作素材：中国春节走向世界 Nowadays, more and more countries around the world are holding celebrations for Chinese Spring Festival. What’s more, not only are these attended and enjoyed by Chinese citizens living abroad, but by many other nationalities, too. With colourful decorations of lanterns and lamps, shopping centres have been organising events and activities to celebrate Chinese Spring Festival for years, while concerts and other performances are also proving a big success. Tickets for the 2017 Grand Chinese New Year Concert in St Petersburg sold out, with 90% of the audience local Russians. People are also discovering the fun of interacting with the celebrations, rather than simply watching as part of an audience. To celebrate the 2017 festival, over 1,000 Ghanaian junior high school students got up on stage to perform Chinese songs and dances. Students in New York City, meanwhile, have since 2016 been able to enjoy an official day’s holiday for Chinese Spring Festival. It seems that Chinese Spring Festival is becoming a global celebration of joy and love. What do you think of this phenomenon? Write to us to share your opinion! 如今，世界上越来越多的国家都在举行庆祝中国春节的活动。不仅如此，参加并享受这些活动的，既有旅居海外的中国公民，也有许多其他国家和民族的人。 多年来，购物中心张灯结彩，组织各种活动庆祝中国春节；音乐会和其他演出也大获成功。2017年在圣彼得堡举行的“中国新年音乐会”门票销售一空，观众中有90%是当地俄罗斯人。人们也逐渐发现，与节庆活动互动比单纯坐在台下观看更有乐趣。为庆祝2017年春节，超过一千名加纳初中生登台表演中国歌曲和舞蹈。与此同时，自2016年起，纽约市的学生还能够享受一个中国春节法定假日。 中国春节似乎正在成为一场属于全世界、充满欢乐与爱的庆典。你如何看待这一现象？欢迎来信分享你的观点！ 学科网（北京）股份有限公司 $