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April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world.
愚人节是世界不同国家的庆祝节日。
It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
愚人节在每年的四月一号，那天许多人都会彼此捉弄和开玩笑。
One April Fool's Day, a reporter in England announced that there would be no more spaghetti because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped growing spaghetti.
一次愚人节，一名英国记者宣布再也没有意大利面了，因为意大利的意大利面的农民不再种植意大利面了。
Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
很多人都跑到当地超市抢购尽可能多的意大利面条。
By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
等到人们意识到这是个恶作剧时，英国所有的意大利面条都被卖光了。
In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water.
英国另一个电视节目中的著名恶作剧是报道一种特别水的发现。
They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months.
他们表示这种水能够帮助人们减肥，一名客户在四个月内瘦了不少。
By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
在一天结束的时候，超过万名观众打电话到电视台询问怎么获得这种水。
Many April Fool's jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool's Day.
许多愚人节玩笑的结局可能并不好笑。一名著名电视明星在愚人节邀请他的女友上节目。
He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married.
他向女友求婚。这名女士非常开心，因为她真的很想结婚。
However, when she said "yes", he replied, "April Fool!" That little joke didn't have a very happy ending.
但是，当她说“我愿意”时，他回答道，“愚人节傻瓜！”这个小玩笑的结局并不愉快。
The TV star lost his girlfriend and his show was canceled. One of the world's most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in April.
电视明星和女友分了手，而他的节目也被取消了。世界著名恶作剧之一发生在十月而非四月。
In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens from Mars had landed on the earth.
1938年十月，演员奥森.威尔斯在他的广播节目中宣布，来自火星的外星人已经登陆地球。
He described where they had landed and told how they were moving across the United States.
他描述了外星人的登陆地以及他们如何横跨美国。
Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country.
威尔斯让这个故事听起来十分真实，以至于数百人都信以为真，恐惧散布整个国家。
By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
直到警察宣布这个故事是个恶作剧，上千人已离开了他们的家。
