the first winter was very difficult for the pilgrims.
对朝圣者（这里指清教徒）来说第一个寒冬很难熬.
more than half of the english colonists died during the winter of 1620-1621.
超过一半的英国殖民者死于1620-1621年的冬天里.
sickness ,lack of food ,and cold left only 50 people alive out of the 102.ofen,two to three people would die on the same day,and four entire families passed away.
疾病、食物短缺、寒冷使得102个人中只有50人存活下来.通常,一天之内就有可能2-3个人死去,四个家庭破碎.
although the pilgrims had not met the indians since their arrival,they were afraid of the indians.
虽然这些朝圣者在来的时候并灭有遇到过印第安人,但是他们害怕这些人.
thus ,the pilgrims tried their best to hide the fact that there were so few english settlers left.
所以,朝圣者尽力隐藏只剩下几个殖民者的事实.
burial services were held at night,and graves were planted over with corn to hide them.
葬礼只有在夜里举行,坟墓上头栽种玉米做掩饰.
it was march 21,1621 before enough houses were built on land and the settlers could move from living in the mayflower ship to living on land.
1621年3月21日时,人们还未能在陆地建立足够多的房屋使移民者可以从五月花大船上搬到陆地生活.
when the mayflower prepared to return to england in april.1621,its captain offered to take any survivors with him free of charge.amazingly ,no one went.
当五月花大船准备在1621年4月返回英国时,船长提出愿意免费带任何幸存者回去时,令人惊讶的,没人愿意回去.
instead,the pilgrims decided to stay in this difficult new land and make a new life.
相反的,朝圣者们决定待在这荒芜的新土地,创造新的生活.
17世纪初,很多清教徒因为政治破坏,移居到美国,当时环境恶劣死了很多人,后来存活后为纪念就有了感恩节.