久久亚洲国产成人影院-久久亚洲国产的中文-久久亚洲国产高清-久久亚洲国产精品-亚洲图片偷拍自拍-亚洲图色视频

English 中文網 漫畫網 愛新聞iNews 翻譯論壇
中國網站品牌欄目(頻道)
當前位置: Language Tips > 英語學習專欄

英國酒吧的危情時刻
Time, Gentlemen

[ 2011-03-24 15:58]     字號 [] [] []  
免費訂閱30天China Daily雙語新聞手機報:移動用戶編輯短信CD至106580009009

在英國,很多人下班后都是直奔就近的酒吧,在溫暖的燈光下把酒言歡,醉醺醺拂去一天的辛勞,然后再心滿意足回家。飯后若閑來無事,又會趕往酒吧。許多人搬家找房子,房子的好壞無所謂,倒要仔細打聽附近是否有好酒吧。英國人稱酒吧為public house,即“公眾之家”。然而,隨著經濟持續(xù)低迷,以及啤酒稅、禁煙令、高昂的商業(yè)提成等原因,酒吧的生存空間逐步萎縮,酒吧文化岌岌可危。

英國酒吧的危情時刻

By Walter Benjamin

叢遙 選注

The church can go, long since the absence of worship; the local shop can go, since the distant supermarket’s cheapness is worth the petrol; but the vanishing of a pub means the loss of the beating heart of a community, in town or countryside.[1] A pub can become a sort of encapsulation of place, containing some small grainy photographs, some dog-eared posters for last year’s celebrations, its snoozing cats, its prettiest girls behind the bar and its strangest characters in front of it.[2]

英國酒吧的危情時刻

History before the 20th century is scarcely taught in Britain now, but pubs are meant to preserve it. They hold ghosts, myths, the memory of kings. Their loss is also the disappearance of a kitchen, or a sitting room, or some comfortable dim place where there is warmth and a welcome, where a man exchanged his own hearth for another.[3] He was not, however, alone there. In the pub he met his fellow men and, with them, formed a society of musers[4] and drinkers. He mingled with people he might not otherwise meet, had words with them, was obliged to take stock of their opinions.[5] In a highly stratified[6] society of worker, merchant and lord, the pub was open to everyone.

英國酒吧的危情時刻

Most pubs retain a peculiarly English blend of socialising and privacy. Regulars prize maze-like or womb-like pubs,[7] tiny rooms and dark corners; for hearths and fires, no matter what the season; for a sense of history in the layers of paper, clutter and paint. In “trendy” pubs people go to be seen, either for their clothes or the sleek cars they have left in the car park; but pubs, like homes, are not about fashion statements.[8] By the same token[9], the building itself often has no importance. What matters is the atmosphere. “Attempts to modernise a pub always fail.”

This being so, many of the great and good[10] are now striving to save the pubs of Britain. Prince Charles, alongside promoting organic biscuits, is desperately concerned that pubs should survive.[11] The last Labour government briefly appointed a minister for pubs. Somewhere in the back of all their minds is that worrying remark by Hilaire Belloc, a Frenchman: “When you have lost your inns, drown your empty selves, for you will have lost the last of England.”[12]

英國酒吧的危情時刻

In a newly saved pub in Brighton the landlord wants writers to come in and use his Wi-Fi all day, young mums to sit and drink his Fair Trade coffee at elevenses,[13] neighbours to leave their keys and get parcels delivered. He hopes quiz nights[14], popular everywhere, will bring people together upstairs on sofas, rather than sitting on sofas at home.

Britons are not similarly passionate about restaurants, cafés or shops. But by favourite pubs they measure their own lives, and Britain’s condition. They see reflected there, as in a glass, the present blights of social isolation, forgetfulness of history, cultural confusion.[15] Time slows; company[16] gathers; speech is freed; beer flows, like the very lifeblood of the land. Pubs are needed.

Vocabulary

1. 教堂可以消失,既然我們久已不作禮拜;鄰近的小店可以消失,既然遠處超市貨價低廉,值得燒油驅車;但酒吧若消失,則意味著社區(qū)會喪失活力,不論在城里還是鄉(xiāng)下。

2. encapsulation: 濃縮,概括;grainy: 粒狀的,此處指相片不清晰;dog-eared:(書頁)折角的;snooze: 打盹,(尤指)白天小睡。

3. sitting room: 會客室;hearth: 壁爐邊(被認為是家庭生活的中心),家庭生活,此處指人們交流生活感悟。

4. muser: 指沉思默想之人。

5. mingle: 與……交往;take stock of: 對……作出判斷。

6. stratified: 分層的,形成階層的。

7. regular: 老顧客;maze-like or womblike pub: 迷宮或子宮一樣的酒吧。

8. “trendy” pub: 時尚酒吧,顧客多為時尚界名流;sleek: 造型優(yōu)美的,豪華的;fashion statements: 時尚展示。

9. by the same token: 出于同樣的原因。

10. the great and good: 杰出人士。

11. 背景:英國王儲查爾斯倡導有機農業(yè),并創(chuàng)辦了有機農場和食品公司,近年來廣受歡迎,其明星產品包括由有機小麥和燕麥制造的餅干。

12. at/in the back of one’s mind: 在某人腦海深處;Hilaire Belloc: 希萊爾?貝洛克(1870—1953),出生于法國的英國評論家、詩人;drown: 淹死,沉沒。

13. Brighton: 布賴頓,位于英國南部的港口城市;landlord:(客棧、酒吧等的)店主;Wi-Fi: 無線網;elevenses:(復數形式)上午11點左右的茶點(通常伴有茶或咖啡或牛奶加餅干)。

14. quiz night: 酒吧游戲之夜。

15. 在酒吧里,就像對著一面鏡子,人們看到世事的反射,當下人際隔絕的陰郁境況、對歷史的遺忘、對文化的困惑。

16. company: 同伴(們),朋友(們)。

(來源:英語學習雜志)

 
中國日報網英語點津版權說明:凡注明來源為“中國日報網英語點津:XXX(署名)”的原創(chuàng)作品,除與中國日報網簽署英語點津內容授權協議的網站外,其他任何網站或單位未經允許不得非法盜鏈、轉載和使用,違者必究。如需使用,請與010-84883631聯系;凡本網注明“來源:XXX(非英語點津)”的作品,均轉載自其它媒體,目的在于傳播更多信息,其他媒體如需轉載,請與稿件來源方聯系,如產生任何問題與本網無關;本網所發(fā)布的歌曲、電影片段,版權歸原作者所有,僅供學習與研究,如果侵權,請?zhí)峁┌鏅嘧C明,以便盡快刪除。
 

關注和訂閱

人氣排行

翻譯服務

中國日報網翻譯工作室

我們提供:媒體、文化、財經法律等專業(yè)領域的中英互譯服務
電話:010-84883468
郵件:translate@chinadaily.com.cn
 
 
主站蜘蛛池模板: 免费黄网在线观看 | 成年人福利视频 | 一级做a爰片久久毛片苍井优 | 国产精品国产 | 亚洲欧美精品成人久久91 | 日本免费a级片 | 国产成人香蕉久久久久 | 成人欧美日韩视频一区 | 香港三级做爰大爽视频 | 精品一区二区三区在线观看l | 成人精品第一区二区三区 | 怡红院成人网 | 极品美女户外勾搭无套 | 成年女人毛片免费播放人 | 老人毛片 | 欧美日韩偷拍自拍 | 欧美色大成网站www永久男同 | 亚洲欧美日韩国产一区二区精品 | 日本韩国台湾香港三级 | 手机毛片在线 | 午夜影院免费入口 | 大陆老太xxxxxxxxhd | 日本视频在线免费观看 | 国产精品免费一级在线观看 | 亚洲免费毛片 | 日本乱人伦片中文三区 | 亚洲精品一区二区在线观看 | 国产精品免费视频一区 | 欧美精品午夜久久久伊人 | 成人毛片1024你懂的 | 国产一区二区三区日韩欧美 | 国产日产欧产精品精品推荐小说 | 欧美69视频 | 1a级毛片免费观看 | 热er99久久6国产精品免费 | 日本尹人综合香蕉在线观看 | 亚洲欧美性视频 | 精品午夜寂寞黄网站在线 | 国产成人啪精品 | 美美女下面被cao爽 美女131爽爽爽做爰中文视频 | 一级毛片免费 |