愚人节来历英文版

  【愚人节来历英文版】

  The origin of April fool's day——愚人节的来历

  April Fool's Day is traditionally a day to play practical jokes on others, send people on fool's 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 Year's was celebrated on March 25 and celebrations lasted until April 1st. When New Year's Day as changed from March 25 to January 1st in the mid-1560's 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。16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 Fool's Day range from the simple, (such as saying, "Your shoe's untied!), to the elaborate.

  Setting a roommate's 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 Fool's 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 Fool's 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. It's 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 Fool's differently. In France, the April Fool's is called "April Fish" (Poisson d'Avril). The French fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends' backs and when some discovers this trick, they yell "Poisson d'Avril!".

  【愚人节来历中文版】

  每年的四月一日,是西方的民间传统节日——愚人节(April Fool's Day),也称万愚节。对于它的起源众说纷纭:一种说法认为这一习俗源自印度的“诠俚节”。该节规定,每年三月三十一日的节日这天,不分男女老幼,可以互开玩笑、互相愚弄欺骗以换得娱乐。

  较普遍的说法是起源于法国。1564年,法国首先采用新改革的纪年法——格里历(即通用的阳历),以一月一日为一年的开端,改变了过去以四月一日作为新年开端的历法。新历法推行过程中,一些因循守旧的人反对这种改革仍沿袭旧历,拒绝更新。

  他们依旧在四月一日这天互赠礼物,组织庆祝新年的活动。主张改革的人对这些守旧者的做法大加嘲弄。聪明滑稽的人在四月一日这天给顽固派赠送假礼物,邀请他们参加假庆祝会,并把这些受愚弄的人称为“四月傻瓜”或“上钩之鱼”。以后,他们在这天互相愚弄,日久天长便成为法国流行的一种风俗。该节在十八世纪流传到英国,后来又被英国早期移民带到了美国。

  起初,任何美国人都可以炮制骇人听闻的消息,而且不负丝毫的道德和法律责任,政府和司法部门也不会追究。相反,谁编造的谎言最离奇、最能骗取人们相信,谁还会荣膺桂冠。这种做法给社会带来不少混乱,因而引起人们的不满。人们节日期间的愚弄欺骗已不再像过去那样离谱,而是以轻松欢乐为目的。

  愚人节这天玩笑只能开到中午12点之前,这是约定俗成的严格规矩。过了中午还找乐子的人是一个比被他取笑的人还大的傻瓜。过了钟点还开玩笑的人会立刻碰钉子,自找没趣儿。有一首小诗是这样描述的:愚人节已过十二点,你这个大傻瓜来得晚。待到来年愚人节,你将是最大个的大笨蛋。

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