11月11 日在英國可不是光棍節(jié)，而是榮軍紀念日！
November 11 is not Singles’ Day, but Remembrance Day in the U.K..

Remembrance Day
榮軍紀念日

World War I ended in 1918. After four years of fighting, 8,500,000 soldiers died. The fighting in France and Belgium (比利時) stopped at 11:00 a.m. on 11 November 1918—the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
1918年，第一次世界大戰(zhàn)結束。經過4年的戰(zhàn)爭，850萬士兵犧牲。法國和比利時的戰(zhàn)火在1918年11月11日11時結束——11月，11日，11時。

Remembrance Day (榮軍紀念日) is held in the U.K. on 11 November. It is to honor those who died for their country in World War I and other wars. At 11:00 a.m. there is a two-minute slience at schools and factories across the country. On the nearest Sunday there are special church services, and the Royal Family and political leaders put poppies (罌粟花) on the Cenotaph (紀念碑) in London.
11月11日，英國舉辦榮軍紀念日。這是為了紀念那些在一戰(zhàn)中或在其它戰(zhàn)爭中保衛(wèi)自己國家而犧牲的士兵。11時，整個國家的學校，工廠進行了2分鐘的靜默哀悼。最近的周日，開展了一次特殊的禮拜活動。倫敦的王室，政治領袖將罌粟花放于紀念碑上。

11 November is also known as Poppy Day. Why a poppy? Because in Flanders, a part of Belgium, the huge guns destroyed everything. The only things that could grow in the sea of mud (泥漿) were poppies. A famous ?poem? called In Flanders Fields (《在佛蘭德斯戰(zhàn)場》) described these blood-red flowers covering the soldiers’??graves?, and the poppy soon became the ?symbol? of remembrance.
?11月11日，同樣也是罌粟節(jié)。為什么是罌粟？因為在弗蘭德斯（比利時的一部分），激烈的戰(zhàn)火焚毀了一切。但在一片泥漿中，唯有罌粟花存活了下來。一首著名的詩篇《在弗拉德斯戰(zhàn)場》描繪了這么一個場景——士兵的墳墓旁開遍了血一樣紅的花，因此，罌粟花成了回憶的象征。
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