Hey Flag!— North America

Hey flag! Tell us about yourself. " I am the Mexican flag. I have three strips, with the Mexican coat of arms in the middle stripe. The coat of arms has a very special meaning because it symbolizes the Aztec people who lived in Mexico long ago. According to legend, the Aztec god Huitzilopochtli told his people to settle where they saw an eagle sitting on a cactus and eating a snake.

嘿，国旗！告诉我们你自己。“我是墨西哥国旗。 我有三条条纹，中间条纹是墨西哥盾徽。 纹章具有非常特殊的含义，因为它象征着很久以前生活在墨西哥的阿兹特克人。 根据传说，阿兹特克神Huitzilopochtli告诉他的族人在他们看到一只老鹰坐在仙人掌上吃蛇的地方定居下来。

After hundreds of years of wandering, they saw the eagle, the cactus, and the snake on an island in a lake. They built their city there, and that place is now Mexico City. " There is a funny story about my red stripe. When the Mexican people first made the flag, they wanted to use purple, not red. Purple represented Spain, which is where most of Mexico’s people came from .

经过数百年的流浪，他们在湖中的一个小岛上看到了鹰、仙人掌和蛇。 他们在那里建了自己的城市，那个地方现在是墨西哥城。 “关于我的红色条纹有一个有趣的故事。 当墨西哥人民第一次制作国旗时，他们想用紫色，而不是红色。 紫色代表西班牙，这是墨西哥大多数人的家乡。

But they could not find any purple cloth, so they had to use red. ” Hey, flag! Tell us about yourself. " I am the flag of the United States of America. Many people call me the Stars and Stripes. I have fifty stars, one for each of the states. I also have thirteen stripes, seven red and six white, for each of the original states.

但他们找不到紫色的布，所以只能用红色。” 嘿，flag！告诉我们你自己。 ”我是美利坚合众国的国旗。很多人都叫我星条旗。 我有五十颗星，每个州一颗星。 我也有十三条条纹，七条红色和六条白色，分别代表原始状态。

I have changed over the years . I didn’t always have fifty stars . Every time a new state was added, I got another star. This is how I looked in 1777. " I was first sewn by Betsy Ross. President George Washington asked her to sew me . She finished the flag in early June of 1776, just a month before the Declaration of Independence was read in Independence Hall.

这些年来我变了。我不总是有五十颗星。 每增加一个新的州，我都会得到另一颗星。这是我在1777年的样子。 ”我最初是由贝西·罗斯缝制的。乔治·华盛顿总统让她给我缝衣服。 她于1776年6月初完成了国旗的制作，就在独立大厅宣读《独立宣言》前一个月。

" The American people are very patriotic. Many Americans see me as the greatest symbol of their nation . Every morning millions of schoolchildren recite the Pledge of Allegiance to the flag. ” Hey, flag! Tell us about yourself. " I am the Canadian flag . You can call me the Maple Leaf. I did not become the Canadian flag until 1965.

“美国人民非常爱国。许多美国人认为我是他们国家最伟大的象征。 每天早上，数以百万计的小学生对着国旗背诵效忠誓词。” 嘿，flag！告诉我们你自己。 ”我是加拿大国旗。你可以叫我枫叶。我直到1965年才成为加拿大国旗。

Before that, Canadians used the Union Jack, which is the flag of Great Britain. " But the people of Canada wanted to have their own flag. The maple leaf has been a symbol of Canada for a very long time. In 1860 the Prince of Wales came to Canada for a visit. Everyone in Toronto came out into the streets to greet him.

在那之前，加拿大人使用的是英国国旗——米字旗。 “但加拿大人民希望拥有自己的国旗。 枫叶在很长一段时间里一直是加拿大的象征。 1860年，威尔士亲王来到加拿大访问。 多伦多的每个人都走上街头迎接他。