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愚人节也称万愚节，英文为April Fool's Day。是西方也是美国民间传统节日，节期在每年四月一日。愚人节已出现了几百年，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。 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。现在，人们在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。 今天，愚人节已经发展成为一个国际性节日，差不多在整个欧洲和北美都流行。苏格兰称这一天的受骗者为"布谷鸟"，似乎和农业女神仍有些关系。法国人则叫作"四月鱼"这大概是因为小鱼在四月刚孵出，糊里糊涂地见饵就吞，容易上钩的缘故吧！ 随着时间的推移，愚人节作弄人的手法，也是花样翻新，新意百出。如：新婚的妻子可能会收到告发丈夫不忠的信件，碌碌无为的公务员会接到提升的调令，儿子会接到父亲去世的电报。某年4月1日，英国《每日镜报》登出一帧照片，一个面容酷似某国总统的男人，一手挽着一个几乎全裸的美女。凡此种种，如果你都信以为真，就上了大当。当然，如果你真受了愚弄，也不必像得墨忒尔女神那样大光其火，最好拿出点"绅士"风度，一笑置之，才符合愚人节与人为善的真谛。 愚人不过12点 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。记得采纳啊
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愚人节英语是：Fools' Day
下面是用英文介绍愚人节：
April Fools' Day is a day to play jokes on others, No one knows how this holiday began but people think it first started in France.
In the 16 th century, people celebrated New Year's Day from March 25 to April 1. In the mid—1560s King Charles IX changed it from March 25 to January 1. But some people still celebrated in on April 1, so others called them April Fools.
Each country celebrates April Fools' Day differently. In France, people call the April Fools "April Fish". They tape a paper fish to their friends' backs to fool them. When he or she finds this , they shout "April Fish!"
In England, people play jokes only in the morning. You are a "noodle" if someone fools you. In Scotland, April Fools' Day is 48 hours long. They call an April Fool "April Gowk". Gowk is another name for a cuckoo bird.
In the America, people play small jokes on their friends and any other people on the first of Aprol. They may point down to your shoe and say, " Your shoelace is untied." If you believe them and look down to see, you are an April Fool then.
April Fool's Day 愚人节
1st April is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by someone. It's April Fool's Day, a "for-fun-only" observance, a day when people traditionally like to try to make a fool of someone else and laugh at them.
Origins（愚人节起源）
There are lots of theories surrounding the origins of the day. As we look back in time, many ancient predecessors of April Fool's Day are found.
A French legendry 法国关于愚人节的传说
The most widespread theory about the origin of April Fool's Day links the day to the calendar reform in France.
In 1582 France became the first country to switch from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. This meant that the beginning of the year was moved from the end of March 25th and April 1st, various jokes would be played on him. This story might explain why April 1st became the date of the modern holiday.
Mythological roots 关于愚人节的神话起源
There have been quite a few attempts to provide mythological explanations for the rise of April Fool's Day.
One story dates back to Roman mythology, particularly the myth of Ceres and Proserpina. In Roman mythology Pluto, the God of the dead, abducted Proserpina called out to her mother Ceres for help. But Ceres, who could only hear the echo of her daughter'svoice, searched in vain for Proserpina. The fruitless search of Ceres for her daughter was commemorated during the Roman festival of Cerealia and believed by some to have been the mythological antecedent of the fool's errands popular on April 1st.
British folklore 英国民间传说
British folklore links April Fool's Day to the town of Gotham. According to the legend, it was traditional in the 13th century for any road that the King travelled over to become public property. People in Gotham didn't want to lose their main road and spread a false story to stop the King. A messenger was sent to Gotham after King John learned the people's trick. But when the messenger arrived in Gotham he found the town was full of lunatics who were engaged in foolish activities such as drowning fish or attempting to cage birds in roofless fences. The King fell for the hoax and declared the town too foolish to warrant punishment. And ever since then, April Fool's Day has supposedly commemorated their trickery.
Anthropological explanations 人类学的解释
Anthropological and cultural historians provide their own explanations for the rise of April Fool's Day. According to them, the celebration traces its roots back to festivals marking the springtime.
Spring is the time of year when the weather becomes fickle, as if Nature is playing tricks on man, and festivals occurring during the spring traditionally mirrored this sense of whimsy and surprise. They often involved temporary inversions of the social order. Normal behavior no longer governed during the brief moment of transition as the old world died and the new cycle of seasons was born. Jokes, trickery, and the turning upside down of status expectations were all allowed.
In addition, the linkage between April Fool's Day and the springtime is seen in another story that traces the origin of the custom back to the abundance of fish to be found in French streams during early April when the young fish had just hatched. These young fish were easy to fool with a hook and lure. Therefore, the French called them "Poisson d'Avril" or "April Fish". Soon it became customary to fool people on April 1st, as a way of celebrating the abundance of "foolish" fish.
Celebrated 庆祝活动
In France today, April first is called "Poisson d'Avril." French children fool their friends by taping a paper fish to their friends' backs. When the "young fool" discovers this trick, the prankster yells "Poisson d'Avril!" (April Fish!)
In Scotland, April Fool's Day is actually celebrated for two days. The second day is devoted to pranks involving the posterior region of the body. It is called Taily Day. The origin of the "kick me" sign can be traced to this observance.
Mexico and many Spanish-speaking countries have Innocent's Day, on December 28, to make "innocent" a person with jokes and hoaxes. The origin for the pranking is derived from the Catholic feast day Day of the Holy Innocents for the infants slaughtered by King Herod at the time of Jesus' birth.
The New York April Fools' Day Parade was created in 1986 to remedy a glaring omission in the long list of New York's annual ethnic and holiday parades. These events fail to recognize the importance of April 1st, the day designated to commemorate the perennial folly of mankind. In an attempt to bridge that gap and bring people back in touch with their inherent foolishness, the parade annually crowns a King of Fools from the parading look-alikes.
Gag gifts 恶作剧的礼物
What kind of pranks do people play on April Fool's Day?
Starving students
A good prank for most university's is to print up a bunch of fake leaflets advertising a non-existent restaurant that has cheap eats and offers free food with the coupons printed on the leaflets. Most colleges have a student union, so the leaflets can be dropped off there and pinned up on various bulletin boards around campus.
When this is done, you can sit back and watch the marks wandering around looking for their free lunches.
Go Fish, Goldfish
When you are at someone's house and they are having a party or people over, go to their main bathroom and put about a dozen goldfish in their toliet. This prank is hilarious because people won't know what to do. They either go to the bathroom and flush the fish or they let them stay in there until someone scoops them out and they will end up with a dozen goldfish!
Sticky Glue
You'll need a little bit of lightly sticky glue for this one--I suggest simply using a glue stick and smearing it. Put the glue on someone's seat--imagine the trouble they'll have getting up!
轻清净静的美好
1、愚人节的英语翻译为April Fool's Day或All Fools' Day。 2、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，情侣之间互相愚弄欺骗来娱乐。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。 3、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。
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