Celebrated on February 9th each and every year，National Pizza Day in US is a day that celebrates this breadfood that is covered in sauce and cheese. It is a holiday wherepeople can enjoy one of the most popular dishes in the world and theyspend time with friends and family with a slice.

每年的2 月9 日是美國的國家披薩日，這個節(jié)日是為了慶祝這種覆蓋著醬汁和奶酪的面包食品。在這個節(jié)日里，人們可以享用世界上最受歡迎的食物之一，與朋友和家人共度時光時一起來上一塊兒。

While no one knows when National Pizza Day was created—what we do know iswhen pizza itself was created. The original pizza was a dish created by the Romansout of bread that was covered in many layers1 of herbs2， sauce and cheese.

雖然沒有人知道國家披薩日是什么時候創(chuàng)立的，但我們知道的是披薩本身是什么時候出現(xiàn)的。最早的披薩是羅馬人用許多層香草、醬汁和奶酪覆蓋在面包上而制成的。

However， while those early dishes were technically pizzas， what people wouldrecognize as the modern pizza wouldn’t become invented until around the 18thcentury. This was when some of the people of Naples， Italy began to create flat3bread dishes covered in garlic4， basil5， cheese and tomatoes.

然而，雖然這些早期的食物從技術(shù)上來說是披薩，但人們直到18 世紀左右才發(fā)明了現(xiàn)代的披薩。那個時候，意大利那不勒斯的一些人開始制作覆蓋著大蒜、羅勒、奶酪和西紅柿的扁平面包。

During the 19th century， Italian immigrants6 began to bring this dish to theUnited States. However， it really wouldn’t become popular until the servicemenreturning from World War II returned home after developing a taste for it in Italy.This is when the pizza market in the U.S grew rapidly and made pizza one of themost popular food in America.

在19 世紀，意大利移民開始把這種食物帶到美國。然而，直到二戰(zhàn)服役人員在意大利品嘗過披薩后回國，它才真正流行起來。正是在這個時候，美國的披薩市場迅速發(fā)展，使披薩成為美國最受歡迎的食物之一。

Just how popular is pizza in the United States， you ask？ Well， all you have todo is look at these numbers to see how popular pizza is in this country. Every year，four billion7 pizzas are sold in the US. The most of these are from restaurants，pizza chains8 and pizza shop， but about a billion of those are frozen9 pizzas fromgrocery. That is a lot of pizza.

你會問，披薩在美國有多受歡迎？你只需要看看這些數(shù)字就能知道披薩在這個國家有多受歡迎。美國每年售出40 億份披薩，其中大部分出售自餐館、披薩連鎖店和披薩店，但也有大約10 億份是出售自雜貨店的冷凍披薩。那可是很多披薩呢。

（英語原文選自：holidayscalendar.com）