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April Fool's Day is a celebration that takes place in different countries around the world.
愚人節是世界不同國家的慶祝節日。
It happens on April 1st every year and is a day when many people play all kinds of tricks and jokes on each other.
愚人節在每年的四月一號，那天許多人都會彼此捉弄和開玩笑。
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.
一次愚人節，一名英國記者宣布再也沒有意大利面了，因為意大利的意大利面的農民不再種植意大利面了。
Many people ran to their local supermarkets to buy as much spaghetti as they could.
很多人都跑到當地超市搶購盡可能多的意大利面條。
By the time people realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out.
等到人們意識到這是個惡作劇時，英國所有的意大利面條都被賣光了。
In another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water.
英國另一個電視節目中的著名惡作劇是報道一種特別水的發現。
They said this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight in just four months.
他們表示這種水能夠幫助人們減肥，一名客戶在四個月內瘦了不少。
By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station to find out how to get this water.
在一天結束的時候，超過萬名觀眾打電話到電視臺詢問怎么獲得這種水。
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.
許多愚人節玩笑的結局可能并不好笑。一名著名電視明星在愚人節邀請他的女友上節目。
He asked her to marry him. The lady was so happy because she really wanted to get married.
他向女友求婚。這名女士非常開心，因為她真的很想結婚。
However, when she said "yes", he replied, "April Fool!" That little joke didn't have a very happy ending.
但是，當她說“我愿意”時，他回答道，“愚人節傻瓜！”這個小玩笑的結局并不愉快。
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.
電視明星和女友分了手，而他的節目也被取消了。世界著名惡作劇之一發生在十月而非四月。
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，演員奧森.威爾斯在他的廣播節目中宣布，來自火星的外星人已經登陸地球。
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陸地以及他們如何橫跨美國。
Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country.
威爾斯讓這個故事聽起來十分真實，以至于數百人都信以為真，恐懼散布整個國家。
By the time police officers announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.
直到警察宣布這個故事是個惡作劇，上千人已離開了他們的家。
