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节日庆典/愚人节 关于愚人节由来的英文版参阅 愚人节是西方节日之一，关于愚人节英文由来，大家了解多少呢?下面是小编为大家精心准备了关于愚人节由来的英文版参阅，希望大家喜欢! april fools day is traditionally a day to play practical jokes on others, send people on fools errands, and fool the unsuspecting. no one knows how this holiday began but it was thought to have originated in france. 传统上来讲，愚人节这一天，人们可以相互搞恶作剧，骗人跑腿，欺骗不知情的人。没人知道这个节日是怎么来的，但人们普遍认为它源自法国。 the closest point in time that can be identified as the beginning of this tradition was in 1582, in france. new years was celebrated on march 25 and celebrations lasted until april 1st. when new years day as changed from march 25 to january 1st in the mid-1560s by king charles ix, there were some people who still celebrated it on april 1st and those people were called april fools. 庆祝愚人节最早是在1582年，在法国。那时，当时法国新年是在3月25日，一直持续到4月1日。liuxue8616世纪60年代中期，国王查理九世把新年从3月25日变为1月1日，而还有一些人在4月1日过新年，这些人就被称作四月傻瓜了。 pranks performed on april fools day range from the simple, (such as saying, your shoes untied!), to the elaborate. setting a roommates alarm clock back an hour is a common gag. the news media even gets involved. for instance, a british short film once shown on april fools day was a fairly detailed documentary about spaghetti farmers and how they harvest their crop from the spaghetti trees. whatever the prank, the trickster usually ends it by yelling to his victim, april fool! 愚人节那天的恶作剧有的很简单(比如，说句“你鞋带开了!”)，有的却是精心设计的。把室友的闹钟往后调一小时是常见的。甚至新闻媒体都来凑热闹。比如，在愚人节那天，曾经有一部英国短片较为详细地记录了“种意大利面的农民”，以及他们如何从意大利面树上收获意大利面。不管是什么恶作剧，搞恶作剧的人通常在最后会对被搞的人喊一句:四月傻瓜! april fools day is a for-fun-only observance. nobody is expected to buy gifts or to take their significant other out to eat in a fancy restaurant. nobody gets off work or school. its simply a fun little holiday, but a holiday on which one must remain forever vigilant, for he may be the next april fool! 愚人节是一个“仅为娱乐”的节日。谁也不用买礼物，也不用带着男/女朋友出去到一家豪华餐厅去吃饭。人们也不会放假。它仅仅是个搞笑的小节日，但是在这一天，每个人都要保持警醒，不然就要被人耍啦。 each country celebrates april fools differently. in france, the april fools is called april fish (poisson davril). the french fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends backs and when some discovers this trick, they yell poisson davril!. 每个国家用不同的方式过愚人节。在法国，愚人节被称作“april fish”。法国人和他们的朋友是这样开玩笑的：把一张裁成鱼形的纸用胶带粘到朋友的后背上，当有人发现的时候，他们就会喊：“poisson davril!”. in england, tricks can be played only in the morning. if a trick is played on you, you are a noodle. in scotland, april fools day is 48 hours long and you are called an april gowk, which is another name for a cuckoo bird. the second day in scotlands april fools is called taily day and is dedicated to pranks involving the buttocks. taily days gift to posterior posterity is the still-hilarious kick me sign. 在英国，只能在早上搞恶作剧。如果你被耍了，那你就是“面条”。在苏格兰，愚人节要持续2天，被耍的人被称为“四月布谷”。苏格兰第二天的愚人节叫做taily day，恶作剧主要在别人的屁股上做*。 april fools joke 愚人节英文笑话 joke 1 wife talking to her husband (who reads newspaper all day): i wish i were a newspaper so ill be in your hands all day. husband: i wish that too, so i could change you daily joke 2 a little boy asked his father: daddy, how much does it cost to get married? the father replied: i don t know son. i m still paying! joke 3 at midnight father saw that his married son leaving home. he asks him: what are you doing? the son replied: dad i am fed up with my life! my newly marriage is not going well, my wife and my mom keep fighting with each other! i have to pay bills for my in-laws, and i hate this life! i want to go far from here, i want to taste every joy of life, and i want to have every fun of life! father said: wait! i am coming with you joke 4 a woman goes to england to attend a 2-week company training session. her husband driv es her to the airport and wishes her to have a good trip. the wife answered: thank you honey, what would you like me to bring for you? the husband laughed and said: an english girl! the woman kept quiet and left. two weeks later he picked her up in the airport and asked: so honey, how was the trip? the wife: very good, thank you. the husband: and, what happened to my present? the wife: which present? the husband: what i asked for: the english girl? the wife: oh, that! well, i did what i could; now we have to wait a few months to see if its a girl! joke 5 a couple goes to an art gallery. they find a picture of a naked woman with only her privates covered with leaves. the wife doesn t like it and moves on, but the husband keeps looking. the wife asks, what are you waiting for? the husband replies, autumn. joke 6 a man is sitting reading his newspaper when the wife sneaks up behind him and whacks(打) him on the head with a frying pan. what the hell was that for? he asks. that was for the piece of paper in your trouser pockets with the name mary ellen written on it, she replies. don t be silly, he says. two weeks ago when i went to the races(赛马), mary ellen was the name of one of the horses i bet on. she seems satisfied at this, and she apologizes. three days later he s again sitting in his chair reading when she nails(打，俚语) him with an even bigger frying pan, knocking him out cold. when he comes around, he asks again, what the hell was that for? your fucking horse just phoned. joke 7 wife to husband: you were so drunk last night that you insulted your boss. husband: piss on him! wife: you did and he fired you! husband: fuck him! wife: i did and you can go back to work tomorrow. joke 8 a couple drove several miles down a country road with intense silence. not a word was said to each other. an