肥肥的星期二？！哈，其實這是一個盛大的狂歡節日，是美國一年一度最大的盛會。許多美國年輕人把他們的 Mardi Gras 之行當成是一種朝圣之旅（因為可以玩得很瘋狂嘛）。

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觀光的人一定要準備好錢哦，因為節日期間的旅館是非常貴的。

（英語點津 Annabel 編輯）