文档介绍：愚人节英语手抄报参考资料
愚人节英语手抄报资料
april fool’s day-愚人节
when did this custom start? according to a well-researched story of the origin of the day, it was started in 1545 by a rather unfortunate accident. a norwegian scientist, loof lirpa, was staying in london, where he was trying to find the secret of how to fly.
愚人节的风俗源于何时呢?据一个多方考证其起源的故事说,此风俗起源于1545年,是由一个不幸的事故引起的。一位叫卢夫•勒尔帕的挪威科学家当时住在英国的伦敦,想在那里找到飞行的秘密。
the scientist was eccentric, but there was no doubt that he was clever. it seems that his experiments were essful: king henry viii received a letter from mr lirpa, in which he announced that he had finally solved the secret of flight. he asked the king to be present at a demonstration flight at westminster on april 1.
这位科学家性格古怪,但无疑他是很聪明的。他的飞行试验似乎取得了成功,因为国王亨利八世收到了勒尔帕先生的信。信中说,他已找到了飞行的秘密,请国王于4月1日在威斯敏斯特宫看他的飞行表演。
so the king and the leading politicians of the day stood outside the palace of westminster on april 1 and waited for mr lirpa e flying past. but nothing happened and it became the tradition afterwards to play tricks on people in the same way on this day.
因此,在4月1日那一天,国王和当时的政要站到宫外,等待勒尔帕先生飞过。但是,勒尔帕没能从宫外飞过。据此,衍化出了这一天设骗局的传统。
recent evidence, however, shows that loof lirpa was not playing a trick: he was in fact telling the truth. he had learnt how to fly, the reason that he didn’t appear at westminster was that his flying-machine had crashed into a tree, and he had been kil