广播电视英语短句 第 198 课：国际妇女节-3

National Women's Day was first celebrated in the United States on February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and nine. 1909 年 2 月 28 日在美国首次庆祝全国妇女节。

The next year a women's rights leader from Germany suggested the idea of an international celebration. 次年，来自德国的女性权益领袖建议其成为国际性的节日。

Clara Zetkin said women around the world should set aside one day every year to protest oppression and inequality. Clara Zetkin 认为，全世界的女性应当每年留出一天来反对所受到的压迫和不公。

She suggested the idea at an international conference of working women in Copenhagen. 在哥本哈根举行的一次国际职业女性会议上，她提出这一建议。

More than one million people attended events in Austria, Denmark, Germany and Switzerland during the first International Women's Day. It took place in nineteen eleven. 在 1911 年首次国际妇女节期间，有超过 100 万人分别在奥地利、丹麦、德国和瑞典出席了盛会。