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qE##cE+j-|;。
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@.]tq+s%h+^zSRGV-。
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*klQ5ya;R6+O~WOS7-。
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zY#sKi2iYWdFKy!h。
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fsA&xuAe76&d.zM。
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i=pA|HfTUUj9CBLR#3。
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gw-uD1hQ.QiY)d4。
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aLF%lg4uSF|po。
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#EuY)(Y8EYYXCN[F+27z。一名著名电视明星在愚人节邀请他的女友上节目sP)XnuTNSRwd3b4[)au。
He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married.
他向女友求婚)97C,Lw1S^^2BUZY。这名女士非常开心，因为她真的很想结婚ysX7Z]0[-.。
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6ut-CzxB2%BUPnV8;A。
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3)e~|+R6%L5JQz+L_s,。世界著名恶作剧之一发生在十月而非四月u@^5y9~F7hr07G。
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3zG9j9d#ZMXqF7p)A8U。
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G#k2)Bt,I)(LpuT。
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D&siz7J-c(#M=E7C。
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rDd#*bsW.+2uM。