肥肥的星期二？！哈，其实这是一个盛大的狂欢节日，是美国一年一度最大的盛会。许多美国年轻人把他们的 Mardi Gras 之行当成是一种朝圣之旅（因为可以玩得很疯狂嘛）。

Fat Tuesday is Mardi Gras, the festival New Orleans, Louisiana is famous for. "Gras" is French for fat and "Mardi" is French for Tuesday.

The annual festivities start on January 6, the Twelfth Night Feast of the Epiphany, when the three kings are supposed to have visited the Christ Child, and build to a climax on Mardi Gras, or Fat Tuesday, which always occurs on the day before Ash Wednesday. The parties and parades will continue until Lent begins at the stroke of midnight on Tuesday.

Mardi Gras is a legal holiday in New Orleans. It is scheduled to occur 46 days before Easter. Since the actual date Easter occurs on changes yearly, Mardi Gras can happen on any Tuesday between February 3 and March 9.

For two centuries it has been an annual event in New Orleans, except during the two World Wars.

有心去Mardi Gras观光的人一定要准备好钱哦，因为节日期间的旅馆是非常贵的。

（英语点津 Annabel 编辑）