虽然愚人节已经过去，但是关于愚人节的背景知识和相关的句式我们还是需要了解的!希望通过这则托福口语背景知识，可以帮助大家扩充托福词汇，在托福口语考试中取得优异的成绩!
一 愚人节知识卡片
愚人节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(即目前通用的公历)，以1月1日为一年之始。但一些因循守旧的人反对这种改革，依然按照旧历固执地在4月1日这一天送礼品，庆祝新年。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4月1日就给他们送假礼品，邀请他们参加假招待会，并把上当受骗的保守分子称为“四月傻瓜”或“上钩的鱼”。从此人们在4月1日便互相愚弄，成为法国流行的风俗。
二 愚人节相关的英文
1. April Fools' Day is celebrated in different countries around the world on April 1 every year. Sometimes referred to as All Fools' Day.
愚人节的英文就是April Fools' Day，这里除了大写首字母以外，比较重要的点是fools'，fool要加复数之后再加上那一撇，另外的一种讲法就素All Fools' Day。
2. April 1 is not a national holiday, but is widely recognized and celebrated as a day when many people play all kinds of jokes and foolishness.
愚人节不属于那种官方的节日，但是人们都很喜欢过这个节日，这一天的潜规则已经规定好，各种整人把戏皆可施行。
3. The day is marked by the commission of good-humoured or otherwise funny jokes, hoaxes, and other practical jokes of varying sophistication on friends, family members, teachers, neighbors, work associates, etc.
hoax这个词比较书面，也是恶作剧的意思，另外，恶作剧的讲法还有practical joke,或者pranks。
4. April Fools' Day is one of the most light hearted days of the year.
light hearted就素轻松愉快的意思，用在愚人节实在是太合适了，也适用于形容其他让你无忧无虑的日子。
5. By tradition, in some countries, April 1 or April Fools' Day is marked by pranks and practical jokes.
看到没有，在有些国家，我想应该是西方的国家，整人在这一天已经俨然是传统，传统意味着什么，意味着你不做就说明你是异类，要受到peer pressure!
6. Spaghetti trees: The BBC television programme Panorama ran a famous hoax in 1957, showing Swiss harvesting spaghetti from trees. They had claimed that the despised pest, the spaghetti weevil, had been eradicated. A large number of people contacted the BBC wanting to know how to cultivate their own spaghetti trees. It was, in fact, filmed in St Albans.
1957年的愚人节有个经典案例，国外的小朋友玩的时候够早。当时BBC报道了一棵能产意大利粉的树，并拍摄了主人收割意大利粉的镜头。
7. 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 trial's success. In 2007, the BBC website repeated an online version of the hoax.
还是BBC。在1965年的愚人节宣布开始试验通过电视传播气味。后来竟然有青年去联系BBC，称他们闻到了气味，在心理学上，这个叫做暗示，不过这个暗示玩的不是普通级别。
8. Bazinga ! Once again you fell prey to another one of my pratical jokes.
《生活大爆炸》里sheldon在每次恶作剧之后都会说一声bazinga，意思是i got you,整到你了!
9.We played pranks on each other,but it was never mean.
mean是指那种玩笑开得过火，有些欺负人的意思。可以说，you were mean to me back in highschool,或者hey!you don't have to be so mean!
10. Is this the fellow who peed in your Hawaiian Punch?
你说的是那个在你饮料里“下药”的那个哥们吗?
11. Was he the one who wedgied you so hard your testicle reascended and you spent your whole Christmas break waiting for it to come back down?
wedgie是指那种体内裤的把戏，这种把戏对于男生来讲尤其痛苦，不过在国外玩得很多，而且还有分类，flying wedgies,atomic wedgies。
12. was he the one who used your head to open a nut?
用脑袋开核桃?
13. was he the one who made you eat your arm hair?
自己吃自己的汗毛，不想不知道，一想真好笑
14. --i'm not a bully --kinda sounds like you were,and maybe a felon
bully就是刚刚说的那种对别人很mean的那种人，欺负人是他们的最爱。felon是指一个小帮派里的头头
15. we used to drive each other crazy playing the shadow game.
老友记里monica说到自己和ross小的时候除了玩各种wedgie，还玩一种叫做shadow game的游戏，就是无论对方说什么你都重复，一直重复到对方失去耐心和你急，典型的幸灾乐祸型玩法。
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