Unit 12
Life is full of the unexpected.
(4)
This information comes from Yang
Xuehui
at
Shili
high school in
Xihe
, Gansu.
愚人节
April Fool’s Day
愚人节是世界上许多不同国家都庆祝的节日。
April Fool’s Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world.
它在每年的四月一日，
It happens on April 1
st
every year,
这是一个许多人会互相开各种玩笑或者恶作剧的日子。
And it is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks, and jokes on each other.
有一年的愚人节，
One April Fool’s Day,
英国的一位记者宣称，将不再有意大利面条了，
a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti,
因为意大利农民停止种植意大利面条。
because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.
许多人跑到当地超市尽可能多地买意大利面条，
Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
等人们意识到这是一个恶作剧时，
By the time people realized that the story was a hoax,
全国所有意大利面条都被卖光了。
all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
在另一个著名的恶作剧中，
In another famous trick,
英国一电视节目报道发现了一种特殊的水，
a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water.
他们说这种水可以帮助人们减肥，
They said this water would help people lose weight,
有位消费者仅四个月就减掉了很多体重。
and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months.
当天结束之前，
By the end of the day,
10
，
000
多人已经给电台打电话询问如何得到这种水。
more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
许多愚人节玩笑的结局并不那么有趣。
Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny.
一著名电视明星曾在愚人节邀请他的女朋友上他的电视节目，
A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day.
他向她求婚。
He asked her to marry him.
那女士如此高兴因为她真想结婚。
The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married.
然而，当她说好的时候他却回答“愚人节傻瓜！”
However, when she said yes, he replied, “April Fool!”
那个小玩笑结局并不快乐，
That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending.
电视明星失去了他的女朋友和他的节目也被取消了。
The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled.
然而，世界上最出名的恶作剧之一却发生在十月而不是四月。
One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April.
在
1938
年
10
月，演员奥森
·
威尔斯在他的电台节目中宣布来自火星的外星人已经登陆地球。
In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth.
他描述了他们已经登陆的地点，
He described where they had landed,
还告诉大家这些外星人要穿越美国的方式。
and told how they were moving across the United States.
威尔斯让他的话听起来如此逼真以至于数以百计的人相信了这个故事，
Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story,
恐惧在整个国家蔓延。
and fear spread across the whole country.
等到警察宣布这个故事是个恶作剧时，
By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax,
有数以千计的人们已经离开了他们的家园。
thousands of people had left their homes.
Good habits achieve beautiful life.
Try to be your best
.
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