英语短文：愚人节.docx

英语短文：愚人节4月1号这一天要当心，否则你很简单中别人的计这一天是愚人节，人们喜爱愚弄和称赞其他人There are lots of versions of the origin of the day, but one explanation is connected with the change in the calendar in the 16thcentury, which means that 1stApril was no longer the beginning of the year. Those who still celebrated the New Year on 1stApril were called fools.这一天的来源有许多版本，但是一种解释是与16世纪日历的变化有关，意味着4月1号不再是一年的开头那些照旧在4月1号庆祝新年的人被称作傻子So what kind of pranks do people paly on April Fool’s Day? Actually, there are lots of simple tricks that you can play on your friends. For example, you could change the time on someone’s alarm clock so that they’re late for work or glue a coin to the floor and see how many people try to pick it up.那么在愚人节这天人们会搞什么样的恶作剧呢？实际上，有许多你可以用在朋友身上的简洁把戏。

比方，你可以更改某人的闹钟时间使他们迟到，或者粘一枚硬币到地板上看有多少人会试图捡起来In addition, there’s also a tradition of large companies attempting to fool a lot of people. For example a burger restaurant once claimed that they were introducing a left-handed burger. In particular, the media often try to make people believe something which is not true. Newspapers publish some ludicrous stories every year, although some of them are actually true. It’s entertaining to try to guess which stories are true and which are fake. In the April Fool’s stories, they often include a clue to the fact that it’s a joke. For example, the name of an “expert” quoted in the article might be an anagram of “April Fool”另外，有个传统的大公司试图愚弄许多人。

比方，一家汉堡饭店曾声称他们会推出一款左撇汉堡特殊地，媒体常常试图让人们信任一些不是真的事报纸每年也会公布一些可笑的故事，尽管他们中有确实实是真的试图猜想哪个故事是真哪个是假是件好玩的事这些与人故事中通常包含一些线索说明事实是个玩笑比方，文章中引用的“专家“一词可能是“愚人”的变位词。