愚人節April Fool’s Day

1stApril is a day to be careful, or you could easily get tricked by someone. It’s April Fool’s Day, a day when people traditionally like to make a fool of someone else and laugh at them.

4月1號這一天要小心，否則你很容易中別人的計。這一天是愚人節，人們喜歡愚弄和嘲笑其他人。

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.

這一天的來源有很多版本，但是一種解釋是與16世紀日曆的變化有關，意味着4月1號不再是一年的開始。那些仍舊在4月1號慶祝新年的人被稱作傻子。

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.

那麼在愚人節這天人們會搞什麼樣的惡作劇呢？實際上，有很多你可以用在朋友身上的簡單把戲。比如，你可以更改某人的鬧鐘時間使他們遲到，或者粘一枚硬幣到地板上看有多少人會試圖撿起來。

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，有個傳統的大公司試圖愚弄很多人。比如，一家漢堡飯店曾聲稱他們會推出一款左撇漢堡。特別地，媒體經常試圖讓人們相信一些不是真的事。報紙每年也會發布一些可笑的故事，儘管他們中有的確實是真的。試圖猜測哪個故事是真哪個是假是件好玩的事。這些與人故事中通常包含一些線索說明事實是個玩笑。比如，文章中引用的"專家"一詞可能是“愚人”的變位詞。