篇一：愚人节的来历和习俗双语介绍
愚人节的来历和习俗双语介绍：April Fool' s Day
愚人节
While popular in the U.S., the April Fool's Day tradition is even more prevalent in European countries, such as France and Great Britain. Although the roots of the traditional trickings are unclear, the French and the British both have claims on the origin of the celebration.
愚人节的习俗在美国是很流行的,在欧洲国家如法国和英国就更是如此了. 虽然这种愚弄人习俗的起源不甚清楚,但法国人和英国人却都声称这种庆祝活动是由他们开始的.
One theory holds that the first April Fool's Day was on April 1 of the year when King of France instituted the new calendar. This new system placed the day that had formerly been the first day of a new year on April 1. Many people were reluctant to adjust to the new calendar and continued to celebrate New Year's Day on what had become the first day of April. Thus, they become the first April fools. Others began to give gag gifts on the day to mock the foolishness of those who continued to celebrate new year on April 1.
有一种说法是,第一个愚人节始于法国新历法实行那年的4月1日,在这一天法国 国王宣布实行新历法.这种新历法将过去的新的一年第一天定在4月1日.很多人却不愿意按新的历法行事,还继续在 根据新的历法已经是4月的第一天庆祝新年,于是他们就成了第一批愚人.另一些人开始在这一天送恶作剧的礼物来 取笑那些继续在4月1日庆祝新年的人.
An English story about the day, however, holds that it began sometime during the 1200s. At the time, King John of England was in the habit of making a road out of nearly every path he walked regularly. The citizens of one particular farm village were aware of this. To avoid having their green meadows and pastures disturbed with one of the king's roads, they built a fence that prevented the king from walking through their countryside. The king sent a group of messengers to inform the villagers that they must remove the barrier. Upon hearing that the king was planning to do this, however, the villagers developed a plan of their own. When community of lunatics, with people behaving in a bizarre manner, throwing things and running around wildly. The messengers, alarmed at what they had found, reported to King John that these people were so mad as to be beyond punishment. So, the villagers saved their farmland by tricking the King. In Great Britain, tradition only allows April Fool's tricks from midnight to noon on April 1. Those who try to play tricks in the afternoon become the fools themselves.
关于这一天,英国的一个故事则说它是始于13世纪的某一天.那时,英格兰的 约翰国王习惯于将他经常走的几乎每一条小道都修成一条路.有一个乡村的居民知道了这个情况.为了保护他们 绿色的草地和牧场免受国王修路所造成的破坏,他们修了一道篱笆来阻挡国王在他们的乡间穿行.国王派了一队 使者去通报村民们必须拆除障碍.在听到国王打算这么做时,村民们也想出了自己的办法.当使者到达时,他们 看到这儿的人像一群疯子似的,样子怪诞,乱扔东西,四下疯跑.使者们惊讶于他们看到的情景,向约翰国王报告说, 这些人疯得厉害根本没法处罚.村民们就这样骗过了国王,保护了自己的农田.在英国,按习俗在4月1日只允许从半夜
到中午的这段时间可以搞愚人的恶作剧,到下午还这么做的人就成了愚人了.
另：
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 Apr一l. 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.
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篇二：愚人节 英语
各国称呼
在日本，愚人节常被称为エイプリルフール，此为英文april fool的音译;它的其他日语名称包括：四月馬鹿(四月バカ)(混种词)、万愚節(汉字词)。
朝鲜语：만우절(萬愚節)
越南语：cá tháng tư(汉喃：四)(直译：鱼四月)
法语：poisson d'avril(直译：四月之鱼)
英语：april fool's day(直译：四月愚人日)。
节日简介
愚人节每年四月一日，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。
节日起源
追溯愚人节的起源，大约有下列几种：
1、1582年，法国国王查理九世决定采用新改革的纪年法格里高利历(即目前通用的阳历)，以1月1日为一年的开始，改变了过去以4月1日为新年的的开端。但一些守旧派反对这种改革，依然按照旧的历法在4月1日这天送新年礼，庆祝新年。主张改革的人把守旧派这些做法大加嘲弄，在4月1日给他们送假礼物，邀请他们参加假的聚会. 从此，4月1日捉弄人便流传开来。当人上当受骗的时候，捉弄他的人会大声叫：四月之鱼(poisson d&apos avril)，意为四月恶作剧。这句成语的由来与原来之意义已不清楚。[1]
2、据英国历史学家的考证：愚人节 的起源乃是出于印度佛教那句到达彼岸的话。而英人百科全书里面则是记载着：愚人节乃是公元十五世纪宗教革命之后始出现的一个说谎节日。那时西班牙王腓力二世曾经建立一个异端裁判所，只要不是天主教徒就被视为异端，在每年四月一日处以极刑，也就是死刑。臣民们感到非常恐怖，于是每天以说谎取笑为乐，来冲淡对统治者之恐惧与憎恨。其后，沿用日久，演变为今日之愚人节。
3、相传距人类始祖亚当之后约一千六百五十年间，上帝以洪水来毁灭世界，但仅留下亚当的第三个儿子慧德的后代挪亚，他以一条人造的大船保全了一家大小的生命。洪水稍退之后，挪亚便放出 一只白鸽，想探求一块洪水消退之后的陆地，因为这一天正好是四月一日。所以后人认为，在这一天去做一种毫无意义的事，就好像一只白鸽做了白工一样，行为愚蠢。为愚人节之起源。
4、据古罗马残籍记载：罗马在每年四月初举行蔓姜会，某年蔓姜会，主宰之神雪丽丝之女白洛赛苹娜在极乐园采摘水仙花时，遇见冥府王菩拉多，两人一见钟情，互相示爱，菩拉多便娶白洛赛苹娜为冥府王后，当他们两个返回地府时，菩拉多乃差使地府中之鬼怪发出吃吃之笑声，以愚弄雪丽丝，而雪丽丝果被愚弄，她乃循着声音的来源寻觅。因此，他们便以每年之蔓姜`会为愚人节。
5、根据基督教徒的说法是：愚人节是为了纪念耶稣受难的日子，耶稣被钉死在十字架之前，被迫到处奔走，后人以四月一日这一天来纪念他此种无辜地被人活活钉死，其实含有警惕之意义。
6、愚人节与古罗马的嬉乐节(hilaria，3月25日)和印度的欢悦节(holi，到3月31日为止)有相似之处。
7、在时间的选择，看来与春分(3月21日)有关。在这时间天气常常突然变化，恰似是大自然在愚弄人类。
8、英国有一个民间传说，认为愚人节与一个名叫哥谭镇的城镇有关。传说在13世纪有这样一个传统，凡是国王巡视过的道路都会收归公共所有。哥谭镇的民众不愿失去他们的主干道，于是散布了谣言，希望能够阻止国王的巡视。国王遂派遣消息官前去打探，消息官到达村镇之后，发现满街都是疯傻之人。国王便放弃了巡视的计划。于是愚人节便由纪念哥谭镇镇民的谎言而来。
9.小丑说美国波士顿大学美国幽默学名誉教授约瑟夫-波斯金对愚人节的历史起源提出了自己的见解，他认为愚人节起源于开玩笑。1983年，波斯金曾经表示，愚人节的概念来自公元三到四世纪罗马君士坦丁一世时期的罗马小丑。据说，当时小丑们向统治者请愿成功，统治者允许他们推举一名成员在某一天中能够成为国王。因此，在四月一日当天，君士坦丁一世将罗马帝国的统治权交给了他的一个小丑--库吉尔国王。库吉尔随即颁布法令，将四月一日永远定为荒谬的一天。波斯金介绍说，当时的通讯社并没有对这个话题有太大的兴趣。我认为我本应该因为这个离奇的故事而被大家称赞。
篇三：April Fools Day 愚人节的来历
April Fools DayApril begins with a day of fun and jokes - April Fool's Day. No one really knows when this custom began but it has been kept for hundreds of years.
It is commonly believed that that April Fool came about bease of the change of calendars. In 1582, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar called the Gregorian calendar which is the calendar we still use today.
The new calendar was introduced because the old calendar, called the Julian calendar, was ahead by ten days because each year was a little too long. Gregory moved the new calendar forward by ten days.
Britain didn’t accept the new calendar until 1752.
In the Julian calendar, the old calendar, New Year was celebrated from March 25th to April 1st. The first day of the Gregorian calendar is January 1st.
In France, people were forgetful and other people refused to accept the new calendar, so they still celebrated New Year on
April 1st. Other people would play tricks on them and call them April Fools.
April fooling became popular in England and Scotland during the 1700s.
The First of April, some do say
Is set apart for All Fools Day;
But why the people call it so,
Not I, nor they themselves do know.
April Fool jokes usually involve pursuading someone to do
something silly, like looking for hen's teeth, striped paint, a lon(本文来自：WwW.xiaOCaofAnweN.Com 小草范文 网:英语愚人节的由来)g weight, a left-handed screwdriver or some other non-existent thing.
However, you can only play April Fools on people before midday –at midday the fun must stop or the trickster is told:
'April Fool's Day is past and gone,
Your're the fool and I am none.'
One of the great April Fool jokes took place on April
1st, 1957. The BBC TV programme Panorama did a
documentary on 'spaghetti farmers' growing
'spaghetti trees.' The hoax Panorama programme featured a family from Ticino in Switzerland carrying out their annual
spaghetti harvest. It showed women carefully plucking strands of spaghetti from a tree and laying them in the sun to dry.
The joke was an enormous success. Hundreds of people believed there was such things as spaghetti trees. Soon after the
broadcast ended, the BBC began to receive hundreds of calls from puzzled viewers. Did spaghetti really grow on trees, they wanted to know. Others were eager to learn how they could grow their own spaghetti tree. To this the BBC reportedly replied that they
should "place a sprig of spaghetti in a tin of tomato sauce and hope for the best." :)