时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语课程学习计划和讲义


英语课

April Fool’s Day is on the first of April every year. It is a day when people can play tricks, practical jokes and hoaxes 1 on each other. No one really knows the exact origin of this day. The writer Mark Twain famously said: “This is the day upon which we are reminded of what we are on the other three-hundred and sixty-four days.” In some countries, you have until noon to play your jokes. If you play a trick on someone after midday, you are the April Fool. In other countries, April Fool’s Day lasts the whole day. On this day, you never know what or who to believe. Even newspapers and television stations play April Fool’s jokes on their readers and viewers. Sometimes people actually think the real news is an April Fool’s joke.


Some of the most famous April Fool’s jokes are quite amazing. My favourite happened in 1957. The BBC showed a documentary 2 of people in Switzerland cutting spaghetti from spaghetti trees. Lots of people contacted the BBC asking how they could grow their own spaghetti trees! Another good one was the “left-handed burger” advertised by Burger King on April 1st, 1998. They said all of the juice would drip 3 out of the right hand side of the burger. Many customers asked the Burger King staff for the traditional right-handed burger. Other classic 4 jokes include the BBC’s 1965 news of “Smell-o-vision” and Google’s 2008 invitation for people to apply to be astronauts to live on the website’s new base on Mars 5. If you believe that, you’ll believe anything!



n.恶作剧,戏弄( hoax的名词复数 )v.开玩笑骗某人,戏弄某人( hoax的第三人称单数 )
  • The disc jockey, a young separatist named Pierre Brassard, has made his name with such hoaxes. 这位名叫彼埃尔 - 布拉萨尔的音乐节目主持人,是一名年轻的分离主义者,以制造这类骗局闻名。 来自百科语句
  • This chain-letter hoaxes, has mutated over the years. 这一骗局多年来在互联网上不断发展和变异。 来自互联网
adj.文献的;n.纪录片
  • This case lacked documentary proof.本案缺少书面证据。
  • I watched a documentary on the Civil War.我看了一部关于内战的纪录片。
n.滴,点滴;水滴;乏味的人;v.滴下,漏水
  • I hate this sort of drip.我讨厌这种无聊的闲话。
  • A drip of water fell from the tap.从龙头滴下一滴水。
n.经典作品;adj.经典的,一流的;古典的
  • The novel is regarded as one of the classic works.这篇小说被公认为是最优秀的作品之一。
  • The football match was a classic.那场足球比赛堪称典范。
n.火星,战争
  • As of now we don't know much about Mars.目前我们对火星还知之甚少。
  • He contended that there must be life on Mars.他坚信火星上面一定有生物。
学英语单词
acetabular dysplasia
advects
aging mechanism
air-operated final control element
anticoagulant agent
arhythmic type
Arrl
automatic digital radio direction finder
Bel7402
Berovina
best-read
black-step collation
buffer chain
Burnett, Frances Hodgson
carboxylyase
carcinological
chenok
chromo-isomerism
cooked meats
cooler cargo
corneodesmosomal
course remote plotting
crowd-pleasers
curmbly
cut off gain
cyrtocephalus
d-tembetarine
data test set
Desert cultures
develop resources
dimercaptopropane
equity kicker
eurya marginata mak
Every why has its why.
f. o. d.
file control mode
foundation brake rigging
friction speed calender
glycyrrhizas
goosey
gutter area
hareland
heat treatment furnace
heel upthrow bolt cam
hydraulic control device
idiots lantern
imperialising
initia
JAFOs
Japanophilia
jetting process
linked edit
local degree of freedom
main-engine and sub-sail ship
medializing
memorialisations
modern passenger ship
mounting torque
Navi Mumbai
normal class grouping
oat hair ball
octachords
offshore drilling platform
oil shale,oil-shale
optoelectronic amplifier
papillomatoses
peak-hours
Pel's fishing owl
pleasant sensation
potabler
pratorinine
process interface module
protectoress
pulmo(no)-
r.j
revenge wrong with wrong
Rheum undulatum L.
rough bore hose
RYFM
satisfy the liabilities
scoop cooler
semiconductor logic elements
siegenthaler
steam drive
strongyloplasm
stylo-hyoideus muscle
subjectivize
toxicological effects
treacle stage
treble plain
tribolium confusum jacquelin deval
triphenyl methyl peroxide
tunica propria mucos? pharyngis
Turkmeno-Khorasanskiye Gory
two-cone bit
unproductive costs
upper auxiliary note
upright pyramid pattern
Vidstrup
Wenceslas II
yirkovsky
zinc-finger