年高中英语 看新闻速激记单词 第7节 The Fool of the Year素材.docVIP

《看新闻，速激记单词》第七节 The Fool of the Year 年度愚人 Different countries have different forms of seasonal custom. The withering of cherry blossoms predicts the arrival of the April Fools’ Day. We Chinese celebrated many special days even though we are not Christians. 不同的国家有不同的季节性的风俗形态。樱花的凋谢预示着愚人节的到来。我们中国人即使不是基督教徒，也庆祝很多特定的日子。 Children look forward to the worldwide April Fools’ Day more than the Spring Festival. It is an important feast for them because they had fun with their mates who dressed up in rosebud flavor clothing. They were such poets that they would hunt with a model lunar module and gather the agricultural produces like pumpkins which they make them into ancestor skulls to play a trick on adults. 孩子们盼望世界性的愚人节远比对春节的期待。对于他们来说愚人节是重要的节日，因为可以穿上带有玫瑰蓓蕾香味的衣服，和同学们一起疯玩。他们是那样的奇思妙想，会用登月艇模型去寻找和收集像南瓜之类的农产品。他们把南瓜做成先人“头骨”，然后去作弄大人。 They paraded like a herd at day and night as though they can not stop being energetic. At dawn, they set off and wove their ways in lanes to announce day-break like roosters. 他们整天像牧群一样游荡，好象精力充沛到停不下来。黎明时分，他们就出发了，穿梭于小巷像公鸡那样报晓。 They hid in a parking lot and spy holding their breath on when they see the drivers turning up. The drivers incensed glaring at the obvious “drawing” on the door of his car. But before long, he had wiped it and sigh with a relief. And children were “drowned” in happiness like magpies as they got away with an apology only. 他们藏在停车场,当看到车主出现时他们屏息监视着。车主瞪视着车门上很明显的“画”愤怒了，但很快就抹掉它了，如释重负。而孩子们像喜鹊一样“沉浸”在愉快之中，因为连道歉都不用。 They even combined to tell lies to adults and adults forgive them. Parents did not limit their kids’ curiosities which benefit kids’ growth. Instead the hostess would keep her words and award them fiber digesting cakes if they looked starved. And the cooperation with no sadness and weep ,graved in their memories. 他们甚至联合起来对大人撒谎却又得到大人的原谅。父母没有限制孩子的好奇心因为这有助于他们的成长。相反如果他们看上去饿了，女主人会遵守诺言奖励他们纤维消化饼。而这些没有悲伤和哭泣的合作铭刻在他们的记忆里。 April Fools’ Day always reminds people of their childhood. What harvest did you gain from April Fo