英语访谈对话 393 April Fools Day
时间：2019-02-17 作者：英语课 分类：英语访谈对话
April 1st is an unofficial holiday in the United States called April Fool's day. In the past, April 1st used to be celebrated 1 as the New Year. And then in the year, I think, 1592, or something like that, the official New Year was changed to January 1st and some people never heard of this change so they continued to celebrate the New Year on the April 1st, but the people who knew of this change called them fools. A fool in Englishis someone who is not smart. We have many words for this in English: dumb, a dummy 2, stupid, imbecile, idiot, but you're all nice people so you'll never need to use those words so you can forget that. But the people who continued to celebrate the New Year's on April 1st were called April fools. So a tradition started, that on April 1st people would try to make, would do pranks 3 on other people.
- He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
- The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。
- The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹，只是一个假货。
- The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。