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Beer  啤酒
 
Vicki:  Hi, and welcome BBC Learning English. I’m Vicki.
 
Sun Chen:  还有我，孙晨。 
 
Vicki:  In today’s programme, we’re finding out all about the most popular
drink or beverage in the world.
 
Sun Chen:  世界第一大饮料？其实beverage 说的也是 drink. 那我猜葡萄酒应该是世界
第一大饮料吧！
 
Vicki:  No, it’s beer! Do you drink beer Sun Chen?
 
Sun Chen:  Yes I like to drink beer 啤酒。
 
Vicki:  Apparently, in general around the world sales are booming.
 
Sun Chen:  Booming 就是增长。
 
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Now, beer is  the most popular beverage on  the planet, knocking soft drinks into
second place and even beating wine. Sales are booming, especially  in  countries
like China and Russia. Even in the UK where beer sales have dipped slightly in the
last 10 years, 28 million pints of the stuff are drunk every day. 
 
Sun Chen:  要是这么听起来，啤酒看来比软饮料还有葡萄酒，还受人们欢迎呢！在这份报
告中，他用了两种表达方式来说啤酒比其他的饮料更受欢迎。
 
Vicki:  Knocking soft drinks into second place.
 
Sun Chen:  把软饮料踢到了第二的位置。
 
Vicki:  Beating wine.
 
Sun Chen:  打败葡萄酒。
 
Vicki:  In  the  UK  we  drink  28 million  pints  of  beer  a  day,  even  though
sales have dipped slightly.
  
 
Sun Chen:  Dipped 意思就是下降了。有意思的是，这份报告居然发现啤酒在中国也越来
越受欢迎。 
 
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Now, beer is  the most popular beverage on  the planet, knocking soft drinks into
second place and even beating wine. Sales are booming, especially  in  countries
like China and Russia. Even in the UK where beer sales have dipped slightly in the
last 10 years, 28 million pints of the stuff are drunk every day. 
 
 
Vicki:  So what kind of beer are people drinking? In the UK there are two
basic types of beer, lager, and ale or bitter.   
 
Sun Chen:  Lager 清啤酒  ale 或者叫做  bitter 是一种颜色比较重，酒的味道更浓；还有
一点儿苦的啤酒，也叫苦啤酒。 
 
Vicki:   Here’s Roger Prott, who wrote a book all about different  types of
beer, to tell us more. 
 
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There are some fantastic lager beers, it is a great style. 93% of all beer brewed in
the  world  is  lager.  It  so  happens  that  in  this  country  I  prefer  to  drink  cast-
conditioned  real  ale,  which  I  think  is  a  unique  style  to  this  country,  and  is
absolutely fabulous. But there are some wonderful lager beers around.
 
Vicki:  Lager  is  the most  common around  the world, whereas  real ale or
bitter is mainly a British drink.  
 
Sun Chen::  他把苦啤酒说成是一种风格特别独特的啤酒。
 
Vicki:  A unique style.
 
Sun Chen:  我们也这儿特别采访到了这儿的一些英国人看看他们到底是喜欢喝清啤酒呢，
还是苦啤酒？ 
 
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Elena:
 
Yes I drink beer, yes. I probably drink more lager but it’s a little bit more fizzy,
it’s nice  to have a bitter, but  sometimes  if  you have  too many of  them  it’s  like
having a big meal because they are quite creamy.
 
Paul:
 
Yes,  I  do  drink  beer,  well  lager  actually  rather  than  beer.  I  do  drink  bitter,
particularly if I go to the north of England. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Amber:
 
No I don’t drink beer. I like wine. I certainly like champagne, and I like fruit juice
and plain water.
 
Diarmuid:
 
Yes I drink beer. I normally drink lager but I occasionally drink bitter. It can be
quite tasty, but normally just lager. 
 
Vicki:  So of course not everyone in Britain likes beer, some people prefer
wine or soft drinks. I don’t actually like beer myself. 
 
Sun Chen:  看来这些我们见到的年轻人，有的是既喜欢苦啤酒，也喜欢轻啤酒。不过看来
绝大多数人还是喜欢喝清啤酒。 
 
Vicki:  In fact, it’s true that sales of bitter are going down in the UK. Peter
Hayden, who runs a small brewery, told us why.
 
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Britain was a great drinking nation and we’ve largely forgotten the greater part of
our  beer heritage.  The  cask  ale market  sadly  is  declining,  real  ale  drinkers  are
gentlemen  of  a  certain  age,  they  tend  to  be  dying,  and  they  are  not  being
replaced.
 
Sun Chen:  Peter 说现在的英国人，把那些老祖宗留下来的喝酒的传统，都给丢光了。 
 
Vicki:  Beer drinking heritage. The market for ale is declining. 
 
Sun Chen:  Declining 衰败。就是因为绝大多数喝苦啤酒的人都是英国的老人，他们都是
要过去的一代了，但是新一代的英国年轻人，并没有继承喝苦啤酒的传统。不
过他用了一个很有意思的说法，来说中年人和老年人。 
 
Vicki:  Gentlemen of a certain age.
 
Sun Chen:  这是说老年人的一种委婉的说法。
 
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Britain was a great drinking nation and we’ve largely forgotten the greater part of
our  beer heritage.  The  cask  ale market  sadly  is  declining,  real  ale  drinkers  are
gentlemen  of  a  certain  age,  they  tend  to  be  dying,  and  they  are  not  being
replaced.
 
Vicki:  In the programme today, we’ve been finding out all about beer.  
 
Sun Chen:  我们刚才听了这么多新单词，我们赶紧先来复习一下吧！
 
Vicki:  Beer. 
 
Sun Chen:  啤酒。
 
Vicki:  Lager. 
 
 
Sun Chen:  清啤酒。
 
Vicki:  Ale or bitter.
 
Sun Chen:  苦啤酒。
 
Vicki:  Of course there are lots of different types of beers, as Peter Heyden
from Meantime Brewery in London explains.  
 
Sun Chen:  她的酿酒厂，生产总共十二种不同种类的啤酒。
 
Vicki:  Traditional ones.
 
Sun Chen:  传统的。
 
Vicki:  And contemporary.
 
Sun Chen:  还有现代的。
 
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We make about 12 different beers, everything from a very very traditional Indian
pale ale, right through to very contemporary styles like continental lagers. We do
Bavarian style wheat beer, we have a raspberry fruit beer, we took coffee from a
Rwandan co-operative and added that to one of our beers. We are really keen on
trying to explain potential flavours that you can get out of beer. 
 
Vicki:  Peter said that there are lots of potential flavours you can get from
beer. 
 
Sun Chen:  还没有品味到的味道。
 
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We make about 12 different beers, everything from a very very traditional Indian
pale ale, right through to very contemporary styles like continental lagers. We do
Bavarian style wheat beer, we have a raspberry fruit beer, we took coffee from a
Rwandan co-operative and added that to one of our beers. We are really keen on
trying to explain potential flavours that you can get out of beer. 
 
Vicki:  His brewery even makes fruit beer and coffee beer!
 
Sun Chen:  水果啤酒和咖啡啤酒，听起来怎么这么怪啊！这些啤酒也卖得好吗？
 
Vicki:  We asked some of our beer drinkers what they thought about fruit
and coffee flavoured beers. 
 
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Amber:
 
The  thought!  I  like  fruit  juice,  and  I  drink  a  lot  of  coffee  but  I  can’t  imagine
drinking either of those with beer, no.
 
 
 
Paul:
 
I have tried alternative beers, they don’t really work for me.
 
Elena:
 
I like fruit and I like coffee and I like beer but not together.
 
Yvonne:
 
I  like  flavoured  beers,  so  cherry  beer,  strawberry  beer,  ones  that  have  been
flavoured with fruit. But coffee and beer, I don’t think that’s a good mixture.  
 
Diarmuid:
 
I’ve tried different flavoured beers, but it is just a novelty, but I would expect my
beer to taste of beer, my fruit to taste of fruit and my coffee to taste of coffee. 
 
Sun Chen:  这么说，有些爱喝啤酒的人是尝试了这些新口味，不过喜欢的人看来不多。只
有一位女士说，她喜欢这种啤酒。我们来听听他们是怎么来说，这种不同一般
的口味的。
 
Vicki:  Novelty.
 
Sun Chen:  新奇。
 
Vicki:  We wanted to  find out a bit more about how people enjoy beer in
Britain, so we asked people where they drink beer, at the pub or at
home, and how much they drink.  
 
Sun Chen:  那英国人除了在酒吧喝啤酒以外，他们在家也喝吗？他们的酒量怎么样呢？
 
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Elena:
 
I tend to drink beer in the pub, but I sometimes do have one or two at home. But
I don’t drink very often and I certainly don’t drink to get drunk.
 
Paul:
 
I  drink  it  anywhere  really,  I’m  not  picky.  I  don’t  drink  to  get  drunk  but  that’s
often a side effect. 
 
Yvonne:
 
I mainly drink if I’m out, I don’t really drink beer at home. Just the one bottle is
enough for me. I don’t like to feel out of control.
 
Diarmuid:
 
I really only drink it in the pub. Like many of my generation, we’re binge drinkers,
and we drink plenty. 
 
 
Sun Chen:  这么说，大多数英国人还是在酒吧喝啤酒；也会有人没准儿什么时候，也会在
家喝上一通。 
 
Vicki:  Some people talked about drinking to get drunk.
 
Sun Chen:  Drunk 这是一个形容词，意思就是醉了。这个词儿在英国特别常用，只要英
国人喝多了，喝醉了，这个词儿就用上了。 
 
Vicki:  We heard another word which means people who drink a lot at one
time. Binge drinkers. 
 
Sun Chen:  意思就是一次性喝酒过多，酗酒 to  binge 意思就是超量地吃，或者是超量地
喝。
 
Vicki:  But one person there said she didn’t like to feel out of control.
 
Sun Chen:  Out of control 失控。现在有些爱喝酒的人为了改变人们喝酒的观念，提出来
要边吃边喝。 
 
Vicki:  Here  are  Karan  Bilimoria,  head  of  Cobra  Beer,  and  Roger  Prott,
author of a book about different beers. They  think beer goes well
with food.   
 
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Karan:
 
I absolutely  love wine as well as beer, but it always annoys me that restaurants
will have wine  lists which have 50  to 100 wines and  then  sometimes will  serve
you one beer. 
 
Roger:
 
If you go into a good American restaurant they’ll offer you a wine list and a beer
list, and we need to do that here in this country. And it’s beginning to happen as
well. 
 
Karan:
 
Of  course  it  can happen, and  the more  it’s driven by  consumers wanting  it  the
more  it’ll  happen.    I’ve  seen  it  time  and  again,  when  you  have  the  finest
champagne on offer and many people would actually much rather have a beer.
 
Sun Chen:  Karan 对英国的餐馆儿能列出来 50 到 100 种葡萄酒，但是要喝啤酒，就只
有一种的情况非常不满。他是这么说葡萄酒单的。
 
Vicki:  A wine list.
 
Sun Chen:  人们也应该有权去看啤酒单，美国现在啤酒单就很盛行。 
 
Vicki:  A  beer  list. Karan  pointed  out  that  it will happen  if  it’s  driven  by
consumers. 
 
Sun Chen:  Driven by consumers 只要顾客有需要市场就会存在。
 
 
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Karan:
 
I absolutely  love wine as well as beer, but it always annoys me that restaurants
will have wine  lists which have 50  to 100 wines and  then  sometimes will  serve
you one beer. 
 
Roger:
 
If you go into a good American restaurant they’ll offer you a wine list and a beer
list, and we need to do that here in this country. And it’s beginning to happen as
well. 
 
Karan:
 
Of  course  it  can happen, and  the more  it’s driven by  consumers wanting  it  the
more  it’ll  happen.    I’ve  seen  it  time  and  again,  when  you  have  the  finest
champagne on offer and many people would actually much rather have a beer.
 
 
Vicki:  We asked our beer drinkers  if  they like to drink beer with a meal,
or wine. 
 
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Elena:
 
I  generally  tend  to have wine with my meal  if  I’m  going  out  for  dinner,  but  it
depends what kind of food I’m eating. Because if it’s say Indian or spicy food,  it’s
nicer to have a cold beer to wash it down with. 
 
Yvonne:
 
I prefer wine with my meals like most people. 
 
Diarmuid:
 
I suppose it’s more normal to drink wine with a meal, but some meals are better
with  beer,  and  I  think  spicy  food  like  curry  or  Thai  food  or  even  Chinese  food
tastes much better with a nice cold beer. Whereas perhaps western or European
food like French or Italian, it’s nice I think to have a delicious red wine with that.  
 
Sun Chen:  看来我们这次见到的这些英国人还都是比较传统。他们还都是愿意吃饭的时候
配葡萄酒；但是让他们改改这个习惯，也不是不可以。
 
Vicki:  It seems that it’s much more popular to drink beer with spicy food,
like Indian food, and even with Chinese food!
 
Sun Chen:  要是，吃的东西太辣了就喝啤酒，而不能喝葡萄酒了。
 
Vicki:  Well, we’ve run out of time. 
 
Sun Chen:  我们今天的节目到这儿就结束了。我们下次节目再见！
 
 
Vicki:  Bye!