关于介绍愚人节的英语作文

关于介绍愚人节的英语作文

【篇一：有关愚人节的英语文章】

有关愚人节的英语文章

1.april fools

day or all fools day, though not a holiday in its own right, is a notable day celebrated in many countries on april 1. the day is

marked by the commission of hoaxes and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends and neighbors, or sending them on fools errands, the aim of which is to embarrass the gullible. in some countries, april fools jokes (also called april fools) are only made before midday. [1] it is also widely celebrated on the internet.

2.origin

the origin of this custom has been much disputed. many theories have been suggested.

what seems certain is that it is in some way or other a relic of those once universal festivities held at the vernal equinox, which, beginning on old new years day, the 25th of march, ended on the 1st of april.

it has been suggested that europe derived its april-fooling from the french [2]. france was one of the first nations to make january 1

officially new years day (which was already celebrated by many), by decree of charles ix. this was in 1564, even before the adoption of the gregorian calendar (see julian start of the year). thus the new years gifts and visits of felicitation which had been the feature of the 1st of april became associated with the first day of january, and those who disliked or did not hear about the change were fair game for those wits who amused themselves by sending mock presents and paying calls of

pretended ceremony on the 1st of april. french and dutch references from 1508 and 1539 respectively describe april fools day jokes and the custom of making them on the first of april.

though the 1st of april appears to have been anciently observed in great britain as a general festival, it was apparently not until the beginning of the 18th century that the making of april-fools was a common custom. in scotland the custom was known as hunting the gowk, i.e. the cuckoo, and april-fools were april-gowks, the cuckoo being there, as it is in most lands, a term of contempt. in france the person fooled is known as poisson davril. this has been explained from the association of ideas arising from the fact that in april the sun quits the zodiacal sign of the fish. a far more natural explanation would seem to be that the april fish would be a young fish and therefore easily caught.

the dutch celebrate the 1st of april for other reasons. in 1572, the netherlands were ruled by spains king philip ii. roaming the region were dutch rebels who called themselves geuzen, after the french

gueux, meaning beggars. on 1 april, 1572, the geuzen seized the small coastal town of den briel. this event was also the start of the general civil rising against the spanish in other cities in the netherlands. the duke of alba, commander of the spanish army could not prevent the uprising. bril is the dutch word for glasses, so on 1 april, 1572, alba lost his glasses. dutch people find this joke so hilarious they still

commemorate the first of april.

the french traditionally celebrated this holiday by placing a dead fish on the back of friends. today the fish is substituted by a floppy kerk.

chaucers story, the nuns priests tale, written c.1400, takes place on 32 march; that is, 1 april; it is chanticleer and the fox, a story of two fools.

3.well-known hoaxes

alabama changes the value of pi: the april 1998 newsletter of new mexicans for science and reason contained an article claiming that the alabama legislature had voted to change the value of the mathematical constant pi to the biblical value of 3.0. this claim originally appeared as a news story in the 1961 sci-fi classic stranger in a strange land by robert a. heinlein.

spaghetti trees: the bbc television programme panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing the swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. they had claimed that the despised pest the spaghetti wevil had been eradicated.

a large number of people contacted the bbc wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees.

south park: april 1st was advertised as being the premiere of the shows second season—and also the resolution of a cliffhanger where eric cartman was about to discover the identity of his father. fans spent weeks speculating on the fathers identity, but when they tuned in to the episode, they were instead treated to a half-hour of terrance and phillip

fart jokes. the true resolution to the cliffhanger aired several weeks later. the shows creators, trey parker and matt stone claim during the dvd introduction to this episode that they received death threats over pulling the prank, although there were not any police reports to prove this. left handed whoppers: in 1998, burger king ran an ad in usa today, saying that people could get a whopper for left-handed people whose condiments were designed to drip out the right side.

taco liberty bell: in 1996, taco bell took out a full-page advertisement in the new york times announcing that they had purchased the liberty bell to reduce the countrys debt and renamed it the taco liberty bell. when asked about the sale, white house press secretary mike mccurry replied with tongue-in-cheek that the lincoln memorial had also been sold and would henceforth be known as the ford lincoln mercury memorial.

lies to get you out of the house in 1985, the l.a. weekly printed an entire page of fake things to do on april fools day, by which hundreds of people were fooled.

kremvax: in 1984, in one of the earliest on-line hoaxes, a message was circulated that usenet had been opened to users in the soviet union.

san serriffe: the guardian printed a supplement in 1* this fictional resort, its two main islands (upper caisse and lower caisse), its capital (bodoni), and its leader (general pica). intrigued readers were later

disappointed to learn that san serriffe (sans serif) did not exist except as references to typeface terminology. (this comes from a jorge luis borges story).

fbi crackdowns on on-line file sharing of music: such announcements on april fools day have become common.

metric time: repeated several times in various countries, this hoax involves claiming that the time system will be changed to one in which units of time are based on powers of 10.

smell-o-vision: in 1965, the bbc purported to conduct a trial of a new technology allowing the transmission of odor over the airwaves to all viewers. many viewers reportedly contacted the bbc to report the trials success. this hoax was also conducted by the seven network in australia in 2005.

tower of pisa: the dutch television news reported once in the 1950s that the tower of pisa had fallen. many shocked people contacted the station

[citation needed].

wrapping televisions in foil: in another year, the dutch television news reported that the government had new technology to detect unlicensed televisions (in many european countries, television license fees fund public broadcasting), but that wrapping a television in aluminium foil could prevent its detection.

breast exams by satellite: in the 1990s, portuguese national television

【篇二：愚人节英语作文之april fool】

愚人节英语作文之april fool

last march, my mother told my father and me that my grandfather would come in april. we were very happy because my grandfather was an interesting old man and he had not visited us since he went to hong kong.

on april 1 my father and i bought a lot of food from the supermarket and bought a big bunch of flowers home. then we did some cleaning at home. at night when we were waiting for my grandfather, the bell rang and in came my mother. she smiled to us and said april fools !

【篇三：初中英语作文：april fool 愚人节】

初中英语作文：april fool 愚人节

last march, my mother told my father and me that my grandfather would come in april. we were very happy because my grandfather was an interesting old man and he had not visited us since he went to hong kong.

on april 1 my father and i bought a lot of food from the supermarket and bought a big bunch of flowers home. then we did some cleaning at home. at night when we were waiting for my grandfather, the bell rang and in came my mother. she smiled to us and said april fools!

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