英美文化节日：愚人节的来历故事_英美文化

英美文化节日：愚人节的来历故事

Fact or Fiction: How About Both?

事实，还是虚构?或者两者都有?

According to Marc Abrahams, creator of the Ig Nobel Prizes, traditional April Fools’Day fake news is being out-absurded by actual discoveries.

据搞笑诺贝尔奖创始人马克·亚拉伯罕称，传统的愚人节虚假消息因许多真实的发明与发现而变得已经不再荒诞。

Every year the Ig Nobel Prizes in science, medicine, and technology are awarded for research that "first make people laugh, and then make them think.”In 2010 prizes went to legitimate research that found a new way to collect whale snot using a remote-controlled helicopter, proved that swearing does indeed relieve pain, and revealed that asthma can be treated with roller coaster rides.

每年都有科学、医学和技术因研究“先让人们发笑，继而让他们深思”而获得搞笑诺贝尔奖。在2010年，奖项颁发给了一项合法研究，由于它发现了用远程遥控直升机收集鲸鱼鼻涕的新方法，并且证实了:发誓并不能减轻痛苦，坐过山车可以治疗哮喘。

"The real stuff is funnier, simply because it is real,”said Abrahams. "In that sense, the things that are real and funny are a superior form of April Fools’joke,because you can tell them and people will think you are making it up.”