父亲节（Father's Day）是每年六月的第三个星期日(2014年6月15日是父亲节)，父亲节起源于美国，在这天，每个父亲都会接到来自他们孩子的礼物和问候。父亲节快乐：Happy Father’s Day!
Father’s Day, contrary to popular misconception, was not established as a holiday in order to help greeting card manufacturers sell more cards. In fact when a “father’s day” was first proposed there were no Father’s Day cards!
父亲节与普遍的误解不同的是，它并非是一个为了帮助贺卡制作厂商销售更多贺卡的节日。事实上，当“父亲节”的提议首先被提出时，父亲节贺卡根本就不存在。
Mrs. John B Dodd, of Washington, first proposed the idea of a “father’s day” in 1909. Mrs. Dodd wanted a special day to honor her father William, whose wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state. It was after Mrs. Dodd became an adult that she realized the strength and selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent.
华盛顿州的约翰．布鲁斯．多德夫人在1909年首先提出了设立“父亲节”的提议。多德夫人希望有一个特殊的日子来向她的父亲———威廉．斯玛特表示敬意。他的妻子在生他们第六个孩子时因难产而死。斯玛特先生在华盛顿州东部乡下的农场里独自养大了六个孩子。多德太太成人后她才意识到她的父亲一个人养大孩子所表现的力量和无私。
The first Father’s Day was observed on June 19,1910 in Washington. And it was in 1966 that President Lyndon Johnson officially declared the 3rd Sunday of June as Father’s Day.
1910年的6月19日人们在华盛顿庆祝了第一个父亲节。林登．约翰逊总统最终于1966年宣布每年六月的第3个星期天为父亲节。
Father’s Day has become a day to not only honor your father, but all men who act as a father figure. Stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and adult male friends are all honored on Father’s Day.
英文版：
The world's first Father's Day, born in 1910 in the United States, was advocated by Mrs. Dodd, Sonora Louise Smart Dodd, who lived in Spokane, Washington. Mrs. Dodd's mother died of childbirth when she gave birth to her sixth child. Mrs. Dodd's father, Mr. William Smart, had participated in the Civil War.
After the death of her wife, she was alone on a rural farm in eastern Washington State, taking on the responsibility of raising and educating six children. Mrs. Dodd was the second and only girl in the family. When Mr. Smart died in 1909, Mrs. Dodd missed her father after attending the Mother's Day Thanksgiving service. Mrs. Dodd knew that her father's love and hardship in raising children was no less than that of any mother.
Mrs. Dodd told her feelings to the church's Reverend Rasmus in the hope of having a special one. Days, in memory of the great father of the whole world, this idea was approved by the priest and supported by various church organizations. Mrs. Dodd wrote to the mayor and the state government to express her ideas, and suggested that her father's birthday, 5 June each year, be Father's Day.
Mayor Spokane and Governor of Washington publicly expressed their approval. The state government adopted it. This proposal was accompanied by the change of the holiday period to the third Sunday of June.
On June 19, 1910, in Spokane, Washington, where Mrs. Dodd lived, the world's first Father's Day celebration was held. At about the same time, people in other towns across the United States began to celebrate Father's Day.
中文版：
世界上的第一个父亲节，1910年诞生在美国，是由住在美国华盛顿州斯波坎(Spokane) 的布鲁斯多德夫人 (Mrs. Dodd，Sonora Louise Smart Dodd) 倡导的，多德夫人的母亲在生育第六个孩 子时，因难产而死，多德夫人的父亲威廉斯马特先生 (Mr. William Smart) 曾参加过南北战争，他在妻子过世后，独自一人在华盛顿州东部的一个乡下农场，承担起抚养、教育六个孩子的重任。
多德夫人在家中排行老二，亦是家里唯一的女孩。1909年斯马特先生辞世之年，当多德夫人参加完教会的母亲节感恩礼拜后，她特别想念父亲，多德夫人心中明白，她的父亲在养育儿女过程中所付出的爱和艰辛，并不亚于任何一个母亲，多德夫人将她的感受告诉给教会的瑞马士牧师 (Rev. Rasmus)，希望能有一个特别的日子，纪念全天下伟大的父亲。
她的这一想法得到了牧师的赞许，同时得到了各教会组织的支持，多德夫人随即写信向市长与州政府表达了自己的想法，并建议以她父亲的生日——每年的6月5日作为父亲节，斯波坎市市长与华盛顿州州长公开表示赞成，州政府采纳这一建议的同时，把节期改在6月的第三个星期日，1910年6月19日多德夫人所在的华盛顿州斯波坎市，举行了全世界的第一次父亲节庆祝活动，在差不多的时间里，美国各地其它城镇的人们也开始庆祝“父亲节”。
The origin of Father's Day is not clear. Some say that it began with a church service in West Virginia in 1908. Others say the first Father's Day ceremony was held in Vancouver, Washington.
Regardless of when the first true Father's Day occurred, the strongest promoter of the holiday was Mrs. Bruce John Dodd of Spokane, Washington. She thought of the idea for Father's Day while listening to a Mother's Day sermon in 1909.
Sonora wanted a special day to honor her father, William Smart. Smart, who was a Civil War veteran, was widowed when his wife died while giving birth to their sixth child. Mr. Smart was left to raise the newborn and his other five children by himself on a rural farm in eastern Washington state.
After Sonora became an adult she realized the selflessness her father had shown in raising his children as a single parent. It was her father that made all the parental sacrifices and was, in the eyes of his daughter, a courageous, selfless, and loving man. In 1909, Mrs. Dodd approached her own minister and others in Spokane about having a church service dedicated to fathers on June 5, her father's birthday.
That date was too soon for her minister to prepare the service, so he spoke a few weeks later on June 19th. From then on, the state of Washington celebrated the third Sunday in June as Father's Day. Children made special desserts, or visited their fathers if they lived apart.
In early times, wearing flowers was a traditional way of celebrating Father's Day. Mrs. Dodd favored the red rose to honor a father still living, while a white flower honored a deceased dad. J.H. Berringer, who also held Father's Day celebrations in Washington State as early as 1912, chose a white lilac as the Father's Day Flower.
States and organizations began lobbying Congress to declare an annual Father's Day. In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson approved of this idea, but it was not until 1924 when President Calvin Coolidge made it a national event to "establish more intimate relations between fathers and their children and to impress upon fathers the full measure of their obligations."
Since then, fathers had been honored and recognized by their families throughout the country on the third Sunday in June. In 1966 President Lyndon Johnson signed a presidential proclamation declaring the 3rd Sunday of June as Father's Day and put the official stamp on a celebration that was going on for almost half a century.
When children can't visit their fathers or take them out to dinner, they send a greeting card. Traditionally, fathers prefer greeting cards that are not too sentimental. Most greeting cards are whimsicalso fathers laugh when they open them. Some give heartfelt thanks for being there whenever the child needed Dad.
译文：
美国是世界上为数不多的有父亲节的国家之一,这一天，父亲被孩子们尊敬。六月的第三个星期日,父亲们在美国各地有礼物收，可以一起吃饭或其他的活动，感觉特别的好。
父亲节的起源尚不清楚。有人说,它始于1908年在西维吉尼亚州的教会服务。其他人说,举行了第一次父亲节仪式是在温哥华，华盛顿。
不管第一个真正的父亲节是哪个,这个节日最积极的倡导者的布鲁斯·约翰·多德夫人斯波坎,华盛顿。她有这个想法是因为母亲节布道。
索诺拉想要一个特殊的日子来纪念她的父亲,威廉聪明。斯马特是内战老兵,是丧偶的妻子去世后,生下他们的第六个孩子。他的其他五个孩子独自一人在华盛顿州东部的一个乡村农场上。
无私的索诺拉长大成人之后,她才意识到，她父亲作为单亲，抚养他的孩子。这是她父亲,让所有的父母的牺牲,在女儿的眼中,勇敢,无私,爱的人。1909年,多德夫人找到她自己的部长和其他的斯波坎市有一个教会服务专门为父亲6月5日她父亲的生日。
那个日期还太早,牧师为她准备服务,所以他说几周后在6月19日。从那时起,华盛顿州的庆祝六月的第三个星期天为父亲节。孩子们会准备特别制作点心,或者访问他们的父亲，如果他们生活分开。
国会宣布一年一度的父亲节，1916年,伍德罗·威尔逊总统赞成这个想法,但直到1924年,美国总统卡尔文•柯立芝是一个全国性的事件“父亲和孩子之间建立更亲密的关系,让父亲的全部测量他们的义务。”
从那以后,父亲一直尊敬和认可他们的家庭在全国在六月的第三个星期日。林登·约翰逊总统最终于1966年签署了总统公告宣布六月的第三个星期天为父亲节,把官方印章印在上面，庆祝活动持续了近半个世纪。
当孩子不能拜访他们的父亲或者带他们出去吃饭,他们会发送贺卡。传统上,父亲喜欢贺卡，大多数贺卡whimsicalso父亲打开时可以开怀一笑，给一些衷心的谢谢您，一直在那里每当孩子需要爸爸。