Mother's day is a day set aside to honor mothers. It is observed in the U. S. on the second Sunday in May. The idea for the day is generally thought to be put forward by Anna M. Jarves， whose mother died on May 9， 1905. In the years that followed she held services and encouraged other sons and daughters to remember their mothers in a similar way. She wrote thousands of letters to great persons， and in 1913 both her home state of Pennsylvania and the U. S. Congress agreed to the idea of a special day to honor mothers. International Mother's Day was celebrated on May 11.

母親節(jié)是專(zhuān)門(mén)設(shè)立的向母親表達(dá)敬意的日子。在美國(guó) 5月的第二個(gè)星期日是母親節(jié)。人們通常認(rèn)為創(chuàng)立母親節(jié)的想法是由安娜·M·賈維斯提出來(lái)的，她的母親在1905年5月9日去世了。在安娜的母親故去后的幾年中，她舉辦各種儀式，同時(shí)也鼓勵(lì)別人的子女們以類(lèi)似的方式紀(jì)念他們的母親。她給許多大人物寫(xiě)了成千上萬(wàn)封信，于是在1913年她所生活的賓夕法尼亞州和美國(guó)國(guó)會(huì)都同意設(shè)立一個(gè)特殊的日子來(lái)紀(jì)念母親。國(guó)際母親節(jié)定在5月11日。