Water is a valuable resource, and it plays an important role in Thailand’s traditions, beliefs, and daily life. A festival called Loy Krathong is celebrated in the country every year to honor Thailand’s goddess of water. The purpose of this holiday is to give thanks to the goddess and also ask for her forgiveness for polluting or wasting the water. There are many theories about the origins of the festival. A common one says that Nang Noppamas, a woman living in the ancient Sukhothai Kingdom in the 13th or 14th century, started the tradition.
水是非常重要的資源，它在泰國的傳統、信仰和日常生活中扮演了重要的角色。每年，該國會慶祝一個叫做水燈節的節日，來向泰國的水之女神致敬。這個節日的目的是向該女神表達感謝，同時也為汙染或浪費水請求祂的原諒。有很多關於該節慶起源的理論。一個常見的說法是，在十三或十四世紀時生活在古素可泰王國的 Nang Noppamas 女士開始了這項傳統。
生活必備字詞：
resource n. 資源
pollute vt. 汙染
theory n. 理論
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本文節錄自《常春藤生活英語》雜誌，完整內容請見十一月號。
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