April Fools' Day 愚人节

April 1 is April Fools' Day.

4月1日 是愚人节。

April Fools' Day is celebrated every year by playing practical jokes and spreading hoaxes.

愚人节的庆祝方式是搞恶作剧和传播恶作剧。

The jokes and their victims are called April Fools.

被开笑话和恶搞的受害者被称为愚人。

People playing April Fool jokes expose their prank by shouting April Fool.

人们在开玩笑和恶搞后，会喊愚人节以揭露他们的恶作剧。

The "positive" side of April Fools' is that it brings laughter.

愚人节“正”面意义是它给人们带来笑声。

The "negative" side of April Fools' is that joy was built on others suffering and schadenfreude.

愚人节“负”面意义则是它把欢乐建于别人的痛苦上及幸灾乐祸。

On April Fools' Day, elaborate practical jokes have appeared on radio and TV stations, newspapers, web sites, and have been performed by large corporations.

在愚人节，大公司精心策划的恶作剧会经由电台、电视台、报纸、网站广播出去。

In 1957, the BBC broadcast a film in their Panorama Current Affairs series purporting to show Swiss farmers picking freshly-grown spaghetti.

在 1957年，英国广播公司播出的全景时事系列称瑞士农民采摘新鲜生长的意大利面条。

The BBC were later flooded with requests to purchase a spaghetti plant, forcing them to declare the film a hoax on the news the next day.

英国广播公司后来接到公众伏天盖地的要求购买意大利面条植物，迫使他们在第二天宣称这部电影是虚假的新闻。

As such, when genuine news is published on April Fools' Day, it is occasionally misinterpreted as a joke.

因此，当真正的消息在愚人节发布时，它有时会被误解为一个笑话。

When Google, known to play elaborate April Fools' Day hoaxes, announced the launch of Gmail with 1-gigabyte inboxes in 2004, many dismissed it as a joke outright.

当谷歌－－出了名的精心策划愚人节恶作剧推手，在 2004年 宣布其1千兆字节的收件箱Gmail正式推出时，许多人只把它当作玩笑看待。

In 2003 April Fools' Day, Leslie Cheung cracked a cruel joke, he ended his life at Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Central Hong Kong.

在 2003年 的愚人节，张国荣开了个残酷的玩笑，他在中环文华东方酒店结束自己的生命。

When news of his death was announced, the first impression of many were how could the media crack such lousy joke.

当他的离世消息一经宣布，许多人的第一反应都认为媒体怎么开了个不入流的玩笑。