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公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad. Hey, lulu, how's it going? Yeah. Yean. It's going all right. And can I propose a topic today? All right, what do you think? You know, we talked about cults before, right? 我们之前谈过邪教这个话题.Mhm.I would like for us to talk about one of probably the more notorious, I don't wanna say well-known, I just wanna say infamous modern day cults there is in the US, and it's favored by a lot of Hollywood stars. Ah. You're talking about Scientology.Yeah, okay. Before we get into this topic Scientology这个山达基教。I'm pretty sure some of you have read things about this. Before we start, I just want to say it very categorically. First of all, this is tagged, this is categorized as a cult in China and in many other countries. And we're not here to spread any messages, it’s really more, think of it as a warning, and think of it as just giving you some information, so that you can watch out for. Yeah, in America like Scientology isn't considered a cult by like the government. But many people see it as a cult like the general outlook of most Americans is that Scientology is a cult. I see. So in the basic episode, let's do a little bit of background intro. Who started it? It's a modern thing. So it's not, the history isn't even that long, is it? No, it's actually started by a man named L. Ron Hubbard, ‘which’ is a science or ‘who’, I should say ‘who’ is a science fiction writer. Okay, all right. Let me guess, he wasn't very successful in writing science fiction stories, so he decided to start his own religion.Well, he wasn't like that terrible at writing science fiction, his science fiction isn't the best, but he wanted to create religion as a way to kind of make money. A lot of people look at Scientology as a scam to make money just because of the things that he has said in the past. However, there are a lot of people who say that the whole world is wrong about Scientology. And usually that's just because Scientology gets such a loud voice. And just as you mentioned, we'll talk a little bit about their Hollywood connections later. When you get Hollywood connections, you get a lot of star power. And so that's kind of help them spread the word. Even if so many people look so poorly on it.I think this is really the danger of cults, especially when it has celebrity endorsement, because obviously they have a lot more impact than average folks, and then when they are there to sort of speak up like Tom Cruise did, well, I'm not saying everyone would tend to believe it more, but there will be some people getting tricked into believing it. But I think you said that Scientology was basically believed to be, by a lot of people, as a scam to make money, but so do a lot of cults. The cult leaders, they're not necessarily even believing in their message. A lot of them started that so that they can trick people into believing in something and so that they collect the money.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来《闲话英伦》. Hi 安澜, what are we going to talk about today? Hi, 璐璐.What's going on? So hot! I can't take this heat anymore. I think the heat in Wuhan is getting to 安澜. But tell you what, how about I get you a cold drink and we talk about British summer drinks? That sounds like a very good idea. Ok, 所以今天我们就来聊聊这些英国人常喝的summer drinks, 就是听起来就很夏天的这种. 我们说饮料其实 they're all alcoholic. Well, yeah. This is not an episode for kids. This is an episode for the parents or the big kids. Yep. First of all, if you ask me about the quintessential British drinks, I would say G&T.Gin and Tonic.Gin and Tonic金汤力. Whichever bar or even just cafe converted into a bar place you go to, you definitely, definitely, definitely will see this classic drink. In London, they just call it G&T, right? Exactly. Because it's a classic cocktail, because it's so easy to make.You say it's a cocktail, it's just a mixed drink, really, it doesn't take any skill. It doesn't use any skill. All you have to do is get some gin, tonic water and lime or lemon. That's it. But because I know, although we're called 酒馆, I'm pretty sure some of our fans, some of our listeners, they are not drinkers, they don't really drink alcohol. So, let's explain what this is. Gin is translated into金酒,琴酒,或者什么杜松子酒,更早的翻译 that gin is a very, very British thing, isn't it? Not really. Gin was actually created in Holland. I did not know that. I thought gin, because you see London Dry Gin or like the original Gin, you think gin must be a London thing. No, it was first invented in 17th century in the Netherlands, but it became very popular in the 18th century and it was so cheap that what it’s known as the Gin Craze made many British people completely alcoholic.Yeah, blame the drink.Because you could buy pints of Gin. And people, particularly poorer people, poorer women would actually drink lots and lots of gin. Even nowadays the basic Gin really is not very expensive. I mean, you can check it online like for example, London Dry Gin, they are very basic brand. It's relatively affordable.And that's after taxes. So you can imagine how cheap it was to create and how much gin you could get. Now for those of you who are non drinkers, you probably read the word Gin in some of the British literature. I wouldn’t say where, just English literature. Then I would not recommend you to drink it but at least smell it. It has a very distinctive smell. I actually really love the gin smell. Yeah, I really like Gin&Tonic, but it always had a bit of a reputation. So we talked about Bathtub Gin. ("Bathtub gin" 是一种在禁酒令时期（1920-1933年）在美国出现的高度酒精饮料，其名称来源于家庭酿酒者将大容量的酒精容器存放在浴缸中，以便添加水和其他成分来稀释和调味 。这种自行制作的酒精饮料通常使用廉价的谷物酒精，通过添加杜松子等植物来赋予其味道，但质量参差不齐，有时可能存在安全隐患 。而 "toilet wine" 或 "prison hooch" 通常是指在监狱中非法制作的酒精饮料，由于缺乏适当的设备和原料，囚犯们会使用任何可用的甜味水果、面包或糖，以及酵母或面包来发酵制作酒精。这种饮料可能隐藏在厕所的水箱中进行发酵，因此得名 "toilet wine" 。然而，这种自制酒精饮料可能存在健康风险，包括肉毒杆菌中毒 。)

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以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~All right, moving away from cemetery. Where is our next stop? Well, let's go to a hotel.  I've heard many hotel haunting stories in the UK. This one is a luxury five star hotel called the Langham hotel .朗廷是吧? Langham, isn't that the one in London next to the BBC building? That's  the one.I walked past that a few times.It's actually got a few ghosts in it, including one being a German prince who jumped to his death from a window on the 4th floor. So this hotel must have been there for a very long time then.It's been there since the 19th century. Oh, that's why, so a German prince actually stayed there. YES. and allegedly jumped to his death. And guests staying on the 4th floor have said they've seen a ghostly figure in a military uniform, military attire who is believed to be the Prince. 安澜, let me ask you, if you booked a hotel especially like a luxury hotel, before you go on your trip, you heard it from somewhere that this hotel is haunted. Would that make you want to stay in the hotel more or would you change your booking immediately? I probably would change my booking. The thing is I don't really like hotels anyway. It's very rare that I can have a good night sleep in a hotel. So the idea of actually being in a hotel that is haunted probably would make it even worse. It's such a whoops, maybe a ghost will come in and sing you a lullaby.I very much doubt it, but the Langham does also have another ghost that of a doctor who murdered his wife and then killed himself while they were on their honeymoon. I think I’ve heard of this story, I must have heard it somewhere. So this is the wife killer,  so ladies watch out.And ghost of the doctor can often be seen in the room and guest reported feeling sudden drops in temperature and was called an oppressive presence. 很有压迫感的那种. So I do believe in supernatural things. And I'm not sure if I believe in this sudden temperature drop, but I think that although people don't see them, but they can feel the sort of presence or some people they can feel the presence or they can feel the change in the energy field so to speak. Yeah, I'm not sure whether or not that's because they expect it or not.Could be, could also be that you are very self-suggestive. It could be .When you heard the ghost story and you stay in that room that's supposed to be haunted and then you would experience various  things. Yes, but now I want to finish off by telling you what has to be the most famous ghost story in the UK, it's so famous, it's been made into documentaries, films even, and it's called the Enfield Poltergeist.Poltergeist, I don't know if our listeners understand that word, that word was originally a German word, we translated into like淘气鬼, 什么吵闹鬼. Poltergeist is not an actual ghost or a spirit, but people I mean English speaking countries or even just general European countries, they do believe in that or they do talk about it. It's just like they pull your furniture around, they throw things and they make lots of noise. They make a chaos in your home or like a house. You don't often see them, but you hear them and you see objects moving. So this particular case is from 1977, it's the Hodgson family, who lived in a council house in Enfield, which is in North London. It's in London again. Yeah, Enfield is just a quiet part of North London. It's just one of these little towns that people who work in London they live in. Mhm. And they started reporting very strange occurrences and these quickly became terrifying.Like furniture moving on its own, knocking sound, objects being thrown like that. I know that's you, 安澜,I know. But the interesting thing was that the focus of the activity seemed to be on the daughters, Janet and Margaret and they were kind of young girls kind of approaching teenage years. And Janet was the center of all of the disturbances. Maybe the Poltergeist just wants to or wanted to play with the girls.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~中元节特别节目：英国闹鬼· Theatre Royal Drury Laneo This theatre is often referred to as the most haunted theatre in the world. o One of the most famous spirits said to haunt the theatre is the "Man in Grey," often described as a tall figure wearing a long grey cloak, 18th-century clothes, and a powdered wig. o He’s most commonly seen walking along the upper circle, disappearing into a wall where a hidden passageway was later discovered. o Legend has it that the Man in Grey is the ghost of a young man who was murdered in the theatre. o His appearances are often seen as a good omen, as they typically occur before a successful show run.· The Ancient Ram Inno Built in the 12th century, the inn has a long history of paranormal activity.o The building’s history is dark and mysterious, with stories of witchcraft, pagan rituals, and even human sacrifices.o One of the most infamous spirits said to haunt the inn is that of a young girl named Rosie, who was reportedly murdered in one of the rooms. o Guests have reported seeing her ghostly figure, feeling sudden cold spots, and hearing the sound of a child crying. o Another notorious spirit is that of a demon believed to attack guests in the middle of the night.· Highgate Cemetery o This is a cemetery famous in North London for where Karl Marx and many other famous people from the 19th Century.o One of the most famous legends associated with Highgate Cemetery is the tale of the Highgate Vampire. o In the 1970s, there were numerous reports of a tall, dark figure with hypnotic red eyes seen wandering the grounds. o This vampire-like entity was said to cause a wave of fear and hysteria, with some claiming it was responsible for animal deaths in the area.o There are also stories of a ghostly figure known as the "Mad Old Woman," who is said to roam the cemetery in search of her children. o Another spirit, known as the "Shrouded Figure," is often seen gazing mournfully through the bars of the cemetery gates.

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可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Percy Phelps was one of my best friends at school. He was an excellent student and won every prize the school had. Many of the other boys were jealous of him. They called him "Tadpole" Phelps because he was small, and he was often bullied. This did not stop him, though. He went on to get a place at Cambridge University, where he earned a first-class degree. With help from his uncle, the famous politician Lord Holdhurst, he got a good job at the Foreign Office. I lost contact with my friend at this point, so I was surprised to get a letter from him one day in July 1889. He wrote: My dear Watson, No doubt you remember your old friend "Tadpole" Phelps. You will recall how I had an important job at the Foreign Office. All was going well until about nine weeks ago, when something terrible happened that destroyed my career. It caused me a mental breakdown, and I am only just starting to recover. I am still very weak and cannot travel. Do you think you could bring your friend, the detective Sherlock Holmes, to see me? He may be the only person who can help. Your old schoolmate,Percy Phelps. I was very moved by the letter and immediately went to visit Holmes to see if he was interested in the case. I found him at his Baker Street home, looking out of his window, looking bored. "Do you have a case for me, Watson?" he asked. "I really need a case." "Maybe I do," I said, and showed him the letter. When he had read it, I saw a gleam in his eye and knew his curiosity was piqued. He immediately began putting on his coat. "Where are you going?" I asked. "To see Mr. Phelps. There’s no time like the present. Coming, Watson?" We were lucky to catch an early train at Waterloo, and in just over an hour, we arrived at Briar House, Phelps’s home near the town of Woking in Surrey. It was a large house with a beautiful garden. The butler showed us into an elegant drawing room. A few moments later, a plump young man entered and greeted us warmly. "I’m so glad you’ve come," he said. "Percy was hoping you would." "You’re not a member of the family," said Holmes. The man looked surprised. "How did you know?" Holmes pointed to the initials on the locket hanging from his neck: J. H. "Oh, well spotted!" he said. "My name is Joseph Harrison. I may not be a Phelps, but Percy is engaged to my sister Annie, so I will be related to him by marriage. I’ll show you in now if you like—he’s eager to see you." The ground-floor room was large and airy, with pleasant views of the garden. My old friend was lying on a sofa near the open window, looking very pale and tired. A woman was with him, who introduced herself as Annie Harrison. 

公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~In today's buzzword mix, our buzzword is Nepo baby. It sounds really cute because it has the word baby in it. But it's not really about cute babies. First of all, let us take a look at the word Nepo.我们今天的buzzword里面有一个可能大家不是特别熟悉的词叫nepotism.Nepotism你去查的话, 它有裙带关系, 如果你在中文都不是特别知道这个词, 它指的就是任人唯亲, 也就是说用亲属关系这种关系网给你谋取各种福利, 比如说你爸当官, 然后你就可以进一个体系或者进一个公司, 这个就是典型的nepotism. What is nepo baby? Nepo baby now is generally being translated into星二代, because it’s usually used to describe the happenings in show business. 因为最早这个词是从演艺圈出来的. Nepo baby, short for nepotism baby, is a term referring to celebrities whose parents have succeeded in the same careers. 说的就是我们意义上的星二代, 也就是说你现在是在演艺圈的明星, 是因为你爸或者你妈或者你爸你妈都是大明星, 因此你有这样的资源. The implication is that because their parents already had connections to an industry. The child was able to use those connections to build a career in that industry. 这个地方的connection就很像中文里说的 “关系”, 他们的父母用自己的关系网铺平了他们的明星之路.Of course  because nepotism is a sign of corruption, so it's not really a good word. Nepo baby is often used in a critical or derogatory manner to highlight perceived unfair advantages or the lack of equal opportunities for those who do not have influential family connections. 中文里的星二代可能是一个中性词, 看你怎么看, 但英文里的nepo baby一般来说是一个critical or derogatory term, 它一般来说是个比较贬义或者比较批判性的词, 因为它强调的是这里面是有unfair advantage, 因为你爸妈是明星, 所以你一出生抽到了上上签, 你就有unfair advantage, 同时也批判了同样可能草根出身的人, 有才但是没有equal opportunities. It often indicates that the celebrities fame and success are perceived as unearned or undeserved. 通常被叫做星二代, 这里面就有一个暗藏的意思, 就说你是个Nepo baby, 所以你今天得来的一切都是你爹妈的connection所换来的, 而不是你自己的本事. 所以whatever you received, fame and success is unearned and undeserved. 不是你自己用才华赚来的, 所以也不是你应得的. The term gained popularity in discussions surrounding nepotism and privilege within industries where family ties can play a significant role in career advancement. 为什么我们直接把它翻译成星二代? 刚才我也说了, 因为最早是从演艺圈出来的, 因为show business在国内也一样, 它跟很多别的行业相比, 它是一个更吃资源的行业. 跟nepotism一起经常被提到的就是privilege特权.

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可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad. Hey, Lulu, how's it going?  Yeah. I'm doing alright. So what are we going to talk about today?  We've talked about Utopian societies in the past, but have you ever heard of Atlantis? Atlantis, 亚特兰蒂斯. I think I've heard that name in like games, fantasy novels, TV shows, it's not a real place is it?  It might be.Oh, it's one of those... it's one of those legendary places that some people believe it to be real.Exactly. Now we've talked about the Pyramids and how the Pyramids may be something related to aliens. And this is maybe a more realistic thing. (also aliens?) However it might not be we have to kind of get a little bit into the topic a little bit more. But first of all Atlantis has been... the whole legend about Atlantis has been around for ages, right? How far can we trace back to in history? We can trace it back to Plato, right? And Plato described Atlantis as an island nation that was basically once the rulers of the western world. 柏拉图时候就已经说到了 an island nation, I thought they were undersea civilization or they sink.Some people called them an Undersea Nation, but according to legend they were sunk into the sea. I see because I don't know why, but every time I think of Atlantis I seem to think about things like Little Mermaid. The Little Mermaid, the father of the Little Mermaid is Poseidon, and Poseidon was the one who ruled over Atlantis and when he got angry at them, he punished them and sank Atlantis into the sea.  A lot of the lore about Atlantis it has to do with marine life, has to do with sea.But the people who lived on the island were just regular people who were blessed by the Gods. They lived there and they were rich but they fell out of favor with the gods and so they were punished. So first of all, let's get back to Plato. 当时柏拉图what did he actually say about Atlantis? He just said that's an island nation in what sort of context did he mention...Well, he was talking about more philosophical ideas but he gave a few different dialogues about the island of Atlantis. He called it the Lost Island of Atlantis. Some people say it was just a narrative fiction as a way to tell a story to get people to understand why they should live good lives. But other people say that he was talking about a real place and that in his dialogues he was talking about why people should be careful because if we followed the path of the Atlanteans, we might be lost under the sea as well. So as a philosopher, Plato might have just been talking about something metaphorically, it’s like, let me give you a fable that sort of the thing我给你们讲个寓言故事, 亚特兰蒂斯怎么样, but people might have taken it literally. Some people have taken it literally. Over the years this whole idea about searching for the lost civilization of Atlantis.  That's a whole thing. It's a legitimate thing just like looking for Bigfoot. There are people who are searching the world for the Lost City of Atlantis, the Lost Cities of Gold but the Lost City of Atlantis is probably one of the biggest ones that people are looking for. I think there might be a reason because I think marine archaeology has discovered some of these ancient civilizations that have sunk right into the ocean.That's fairly common. There's a lot of islands that have sunk over the years and like the civilizations that live there, all the houses are undersea, some have been preserved, others not so well. Where is Atlantis in the lore? Is it in Europe? It's difficult to say, but some people look at the Mediterranean Sea, others people talk about more like the Atlantic Ocean. However something very interesting be due to like some Continental shift some people say that Antarctica, that is actually Atlantis, Mediterranean, 地中海, 就欧洲这边的or Atlantic sea, 就是大西洋. I mean for me, it would be quite natural to assume Atlantic, Atlantis, you know is that why people draw that connection.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~By the way, how long do these sessions last and how frequent not just Prime Minister’s question time, but just in general they do debate every day. Yeah. They can last for hours, they can go into the night. And if it's a particularly big issue, it's not unheard of for them to go through the night debating. And you're not allowed to eat and drink, that doesn't sound like a very easy job. Just from the work hours. It kind of stops them from speaking too much because eventually they all get hungry. And then what the whole debate is adjourned or is just finished. It can be finished or it can be adjourned. So how they vote is they don't take hands. They vote literally with their feet. So when they're ready for a vote, they will go into one room for yes, and one room for no, then they'll count the people in the room.Is it because you guys have never heard of the voting machine the digital voting button?These are rules that came into effect three hundred four hundred years ago and they work. So why change them? I think this is what's really interesting because you kept a lot of the rituals.Yeah.It's so highly ritualistic. Oh god, yes. For example, MPs aren't allowed to wear hats or swords in the House.Hats I understand,  that's a respect thing.Yeah.Swords like who? Oh, okay, again this was ages and ages ago.Well, absolutely. So there is actually still a place outside where MPs can leave their swords. But now they use them for umbrellas. I suppose you can poke someone with the umbrella. Well. You notice that everyone is facing each other. So you got one side is the government, one side is the opposition, and the space between the two, you can see there's a line by the feet of the MPs on the front bench. No one can cross that line and the distance between those two lines is how long a sword is. So it's like you can't even reach it if you have a sword. If you have a sword, so you can't stand up and stab your opponent. You know what I think. They probably learned it the hard way. It probably led to sword fights before.Yeah, it did.And people did get killed for a speaking. I'm sure they did. That so now it's just leave your swords in the sword room.Yeah.It's like disarm before you go into the room for the debate, it needs to be a verbal debate.  They kept them apart because emotions are high, they don't want them to fight. I hope they have security though.Of course they do. But it's also illegal to wear armor in the House of the Parliament as well. Well. If you get rid of the swords, you, I guess you can get rid of the armor. Yeah. And the MPs aren't allowed to have their hands in their pocket.It’s show that they don't have weapon, concealed weapon.I think so. I did actually try to look up why that's the case and I think that's probably the most likely reason why. Yeah, I don't want to think about other reasons.No.Yeah. But let's dial back a little bit. Earlier on, you said when they want to put something to a vote, so they debate there for you, let's just say there's a new policy, a new law being proposed and then finally after they debated all the details, and they want to let everyone put in a vote, instead of just pressing a button, they will literally vote by going into the “YES room” or the “NO room”. Yeah.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】.Hi,安澜. Hi, everyone. So what are we gonna talk about in this episode? Hang on a minute. You have the general election coming up, right? 英国要大选了吧. Yep. In early July, we have our general election. Do you still vote? I mean you don't even live in the UK.I still vote. Yes.And, you know, I don't really follow the politics that closely, however I do enjoy sometimes watching in news, all these fights that go on in the parliament when they're trying to debate. Yes. All these hear, hear.Yeah. That's mostly for the big debates, the ones that make the telly. But most of them are quit quiet. 就是英国议会里面的 Debate还是挺有意思的, 比如说他们去怼，就是现任的首相这样的什么的.  So, let’s, I thought can we talk about these traditions in your parliament? Yeah, of course. The British parliament has been around for centuries. So you could imagine that over that time, some quite unusual traditions have developed and some quite unusual rules as well. But first of all, let's rewind or recap. We talked about the parliament before.Yes.我们原来讲过英国政府的构成, 讲过议会. Let me review, let me see if I can still remember this.Okay.It's divided in two parts. You have two houses就有两个, 一个上议院, 一个下议院，叫做House of Lords and House of Commons.Yeah, that's right.其实就是贵族院和平民院，对吧?Yeah.And those people who are shouting, that's House of Commons. I guess.That's the House of Commons. So the House of Commons is the most important House because those are the people who are directly elected. Oh,  because House of Lords is passed on. Some of them are passed on. Most of them are what we call Life Peers(终身贵族). So if they've been former politicians, they get “promoted to the House of Lords”. The House of Lords, essentially it's a way of kind of reviewing laws passed by the House of Commons. So if the House of Lords don't like a law or they don't like a proposed bill, then they send it back to the House of Commons. Think of them almost like a editing service.I see. So a lot of the big decisions, the big policies and new acts, new laws are still proposed, first of all, by the House of Commons.All of the new.All of the new. I see. Let's start with this whole what we see on TV. You said that's the big debate that's not like an everyday thing.No. No. So when you see the House of Commons really really sore, that's normally for the big debates such as Prime Ministers question time. It’s just Prime Ministers question time, it just sounds like 安澜's bedtime story.Pretty much.  So once a week, the Prime Minister has to answer questions in the House. Once a week as frequent as that? Yeah. Absolutely.What if he is traveling to other countries?Then the deputy Prime Minister will do it. So there will always be someone, someone is gonna be there.There will always be someone. So it's a chance for the opposition to essentially attack the Prime Minister. I see when you say question time, most of us probably thinking is question and answers提问时间, but it's question as in almost like 审问时间. That's right.It's like being interrogated. You did this wrong? Why did you have this policy? Why did you do that? Well. They wouldn't say you. So MPs can't use you. What do they say, Prime Minister? They will say the honourable member for plus the area they represent.What about the Prime Minister, for the country? He would be the Prime Minister or His Ministers would be the Right Honourable Member. Hang on. I'm getting a bit confused. When they are trying to attack the Prime Minister during Prime Minister's question time.

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可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Once Hilton Cubitt had gone, my friend rushed to the table. He spread out all the pieces of paper and then focused intensely on the dancing men. For two hours, he filled sheet after sheet of his notepad with figures and letters. He was so absorbed that he completely forgot I was there.Sometimes, when he made progress, he sang and whistled while he worked; other times, when he was stuck, he would sit in silence, frowning at the symbols as if trying to understand them.Finally, he jumped up from his chair with a cry of triumph and walked around the room rubbing his hands together. Then he wrote a long message.“If this brings the answer I expect, Watson,” he said, “then you’ll have another interesting case to write about. I hope the answer will come tomorrow, and then we can go to Norfolk and explain the whole mystery to our friend.”But the answer to the message didn’t come the next day or the day after that, and my friend grew more and more impatient. On the evening of the second day, a letter arrived from Hilton Cubitt. He had found more dancing men written on the pedestal of the sundial. After reading the message for a few minutes, Holmes let out a gasp of surprise and dismay.“We have to go to Norfolk right away!” he exclaimed. “Is there a train to North Walsham tonight?”“The last one just left,” I said after checking the timetable.“Then we must take the first one tomorrow morning.”Our landlady Mrs. Hudson came in with a telegram—the long-awaited reply to the one Holmes had sent.“Just as I thought,” said Holmes after reading it. He looked more anxious than I had ever seen him. “This makes it even more important that we tell Mr. Cubitt about the situation, as he has no idea of the danger he’s in.”As it turned out, Holmes was correct. I wish we had caught that earlier train and prevented the tragic end of this story.The next morning, as soon as we got off the train at North Walsham, the station master hurried toward us.“I suppose you're the detectives from London going to Ridling Thorpe Manor?” he said breathlessly.A look of fear crossed Holmes's face. “Why do you ask?” he said.“Or maybe you’re the doctors? Mrs. Cubitt isn't dead—or at least wasn't when I last heard. You might still be able to save her, even if it’s just for the trial.”“We’re heading to Ridling Thorpe Manor,” said Holmes, “but we haven’t heard anything about what’s happened there.”“It’s a terrible situation,” said the station master. “Mrs. Cubitt shot her husband and then herself, according to the servants. He’s dead, and she’s barely clinging to life. It’s shocking! And to think the Cubitts are one of the oldest and most respected families in Norfolk.”Without a word, Holmes hurried to a waiting carriage. During the drive to Ridling Thorpe, he remained silent. The beautiful Norfolk countryside meant nothing to him. I had rarely seen him so despondent.Finally, we arrived at Ridling Thorpe Manor, a lovely old house made of brick and timber, standing tall among a cluster of trees. As we approached the front door, we passed by the sundial on the lawn and the toolshed where the strange messages had appeared.Inspector Martin of the Norfolk Police had just gotten down from his dogcart when we arrived. He was a small man with sharp, attentive eyes. When he heard my companion's name, he was astonished. “Mr. Holmes, the crime only happened at three this morning. How did you hear about it in London and get here so quickly?”“Mr. Cubitt was my client,” explained Holmes. “I had a feeling there might be trouble and came hoping to prevent it.”“Then you must have information that we don't,” said Martin. “From what I know, they were a very loving couple.”“So you don’t know about the dancing men,” said Holmes, confusing the inspector. “Well, since we couldn't prevent this tragedy, let's at least make sure justice is served. Will you work with me on this?”

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The Dancing Men可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~One late morning near the end of July 1898, I was sitting in our living room at 221B Baker Street, thinking deeply. My friend and roommate, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, was at his experiment table in the corner. He was studying a green, bad-smelling substance in a test tube. "Watson," he said suddenly, "you are not going to invest your money in that South African gold mine." I was very surprised. I knew my friend was good at making logical guesses, but I did not know he could read minds. "How did you know that?" I asked. He put his test tube on the rack and turned to face me. "Admit you're amazed," he said. "I admit it," I replied. "Good," he smiled, "because in five minutes you'll tell me it was all very simple. I work, Watson, by making a chain of small guesses, each one simple by itself. Then, by jumping to the end, I reach a conclusion that can seem surprising. I knew you had decided against investing in South African gold by looking at the groove between your left forefinger and thumb." "I don’t understand," I said, looking at that part of my hand and shaking my head in confusion. "Then I will show you how I figured it out," said Holmes. "First: you had chalk between your left finger and thumb when you came back from your club last night. Second: you use chalk when you play billiards to steady the cue. Third: you only play billiards with Thurston. Fourth: four weeks ago, you told me Thurston had asked if you wanted to join him in buying shares in a South African gold mine and gave you a month to decide. Fifth: your accounts book is locked in my drawer, and you haven’t asked for the key. Sixth: you’ve decided not to invest." "How simple!" I exclaimed. "Exactly," sighed Holmes. "Every problem seems simple once it is explained. Now, here’s something I can’t explain. What do you think of this, Watson?" He tossed a piece of paper onto the coffee table and went back to his test tube. I frowned at the paper, which had been torn from a notebook. It showed a line of little stick figures in different poses. "Why, it’s just a child’s drawing," I said. "Oh, do you think so?" "What else could it be?" "That is what the man who sent it to me wants to know," said Holmes. "He is Mr. Hilton Cubitt of Ridling Thorpe Manor in Norfolk. It arrived in this morning’s mail, and he promised to come by the next train ... Ah, there’s the doorbell now. I wouldn’t be surprised if that was him." There was a heavy step on the stairs, and a moment later, a tall man with pink cheeks and serious blue eyes came into the room. After shaking our hands, he noticed the paper on the table. “What do you think, Mr. Holmes?” he asked. “I’ve heard you like strange mysteries, and I can’t think of one stranger than this.” “At first glance,” said Holmes, “it looks like a childish prank. What I don’t understand is why you’re so worried about it.” “I wouldn’t be,” said Cubitt, “except I’ve seen how it affects my wife. It’s scaring her terribly. She says nothing, but I can see the fear in her eyes. That’s why I need to find out what’s going on.” “Maybe,” suggested Holmes, “it would be best if you told your story from the beginning.” 

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Campaign financed according to Eu Regulation No. 2021/2115Both Veneto and Friuli Venezia Giulia are the Prosecco DOC production and origin areas.可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Now I am quite curious as in what do you guys think about the perception of prosecco in the Chinese market? Do you think that Chinese consumers in general have the basic awareness of prosecco, for example, the prosecco region, what prosecco is, or any of the relevant information, Daisy?I would say to understand Chinese consumers you for sure want to understand what is your niche. So for sure there are a lot of people who might not even know about the name prosecco.True.In that case, this is not really our target audience. Right？So let's assume there's a…I probably beg to differ, because I would see them as potential customers if they don't know prosecco.Yeah. They can be potential customer, for the sake of this call, I mean for the sake of answering your question, this is not the target audience we are talking about, right? They don't know prosecco as a category. Well, that's true. Sometimes they don't know exactly where the prosecco come from.Yeah. What I’ve seen is they know they've heard of Italian wine and then they especially female customers, they know sparkling as like Moscato, probably, they're really, really sweet ones. They don't perhaps have much of an understanding or awareness of prosecco. You're right, Daisy.So I would rather bank that for the opportunity part instead of understanding their perception, let's say there's a group of Chinese a pretty big group that have very little awareness of prosecco that is our potential customers.Yeah.Then we move on to the next category of consumers who are the ones that they know prosecco. They may even know prosecco is from Italy. And then to be more sophisticated, they may even think about which area of production of prosecco. Yeah. So if we look at consumers in this different prosecco understanding journey, then we can understand what is their perception at that stage. And where do we want them to move towards.Exactly.How do we help them increase their understanding awareness and improve their perception of prosecco in the future? So I would actually first identify the different consumer groups with their very different perception of prosecco and work towards that, because you don't want to be telling a novice about the region, the flavor profile and this and that, they might feel a little bit confused.Overwhelmed.Confused. But if you come back in 2 or 3 years, they may already be an expert if they really love that drink.I love the word that you're using. It's like a consumer journey of realization of gaining awareness in the particular consumer products i.e. prosecco here. Very interesting. Thank you, Daisy.  What about Matteo? What do you think dealing with Chinese consumers wine consumers directly? What do you think is their understanding awareness or perception of prosecco?I mean, it's very kind of varied by region and tier cities, right? Like Daisy says I mean a lot of them maybe they don't know what the name of prosecco is, or where is the prosecco coming from. And like to say that's definitely not target that we have into the... but again is a potential target. And also some of them regarded as prosecco as affordable drinks and for usually more expert wine drinkers. They don't really like to be or to try the wine or like to get into that.

Campaign financed according to Eu Regulation No. 2021/2115 可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~人物介绍：Matteo, wine expert from Italy and the senior manager in sales & marketing at the largest wine importer in China; has extensive experience in the wine industry in promoting Italian wines.Daisy, expert in brand promotion specializing in creating demands for foreign brands.Keywords l Introduction and backgrounds of the guestsl Current state of prosecco in the Chinese market.l What factors have contributed to the growing popularity of prosecco in China in recent years?  Hi, everyone. And welcome back to the show. Today we have in our studio two special guests, one of them you may still remember from our previous episodes on Prosecco. So Matteo is from Italy. He's a wine expert and the senior manager in sales & marketing at the largest wine importer in China. He has extensive experience in the wine industry in promoting Italian wines, including prosecco in China as well. Now another interesting fact is that he himself is from Veneto as some of you might know, that's one of the prosecco regions; and another guest, new guest, Daisy, she is an expert in brand promotion specializing in creating demands for foreign brands. Welcome to the show Matteo, Daisy. Hi, Lulu. Hi Lulu.I know I’ve introduced both of you, but could you also give our audience a little bit of introduction about what you're doing right now, your background? Daisy, would you like to start.Sure. My name is Daisy. I am the founder of a company that creates demand for foreign brands in China. I was born in Hong Kong and educated in Spain, the UK, the Netherlands and China.So I would say I have a pretty deep understanding of why and what consumer buy in the China market being Chinese myself. And we've worked across different industries mainly in F&B (food and beverage). We work with big consumer brands, global brands. We also work with independent producers and also restaurants and bars and whatnot. So I would say that our understanding of the wine and prosecco market, it's more psychology focused and also more broad.That's exactly the sort of insights we're looking for. Okay. Thank you, Daisy. And Matteo, please.Hi lulu. Hi Daisy. Hi everyone. My name is Matteo. I work in China right now, I’ve worked in this business for 22 years. I’ve done everything from farming, planting vines, selling wines, passing through production, distribution, importation; I work in F&B as well, of course marketing, sales, worked in Italy restaurant, I worked in different countries and cities like New York, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Dubai, Maldives, Shanghai now. So I think I know one or two things in wine industry.I’m sure you're being modest by saying one or two things.All right, let's dive right into your impressions of the current state of prosecco in the Chinese market. I'll direct this question to Matteo first because you obviously work directly in the wine industry.Yes, current state of prosecco in Chinese market is it’s a product that satisfies a wide range of palates in the situation where people don’t want to spend money on expensive stuff, including F&B, that’s something I have to say.Mhm.They tend to see good price per value products. And prosecco actually falls into this category. So people still want to drink, they basically go for, let’s say more friendly choices definitely. We may also take into consideration that not many people in China drink prosecco, so the per capita consumption is really low, I saw some data saying that 30 million drink imported wines at least once a month in China, which is little.The per capita consumption is 0.6,0.8Yeah.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Trauma Dumping. Now this word is so new that it doesn't even have an official Chinese translation. 这个词由于太新了, 我甚至都没有找到一个特别好以及特别官方的中文翻译, 咱们暂且把它翻译成 “创伤倾倒”或者 “创伤倾泻”. When we talk about dumping, we tend to think about dumping of waste, 比如工业的废水废料的倾倒. So what is trauma dump? First of all, I'm sure some of you heard of the word trauma. Trauma在心理学上主要指的是这种创伤创伤性事件. So trauma dumping refers to the oversharing of difficult emotions and thoughts with others. Now the key word here is oversharing. 所谓的trauma dumping, 就是这种会把自己的负面情绪, 特别是这种创伤体验过度分享的行为 oversharing, 这就让我想到了中国文学里面一个经典人物就是祥林嫂. I guess that is the type of trauma dumping. It is not a clinical term used by mental health providers. So it's not like an official word, but on social media you see it used more and more often.People who engage in trauma dumping often share traumatic events or stressful situations with others during inappropriate times.除了刚才说的oversharing, 还有一个特点就是他们会不顾对方的感受, 不分时间, 不分场合, 不合时宜的去跟别人过度分享. During inappropriate times. And also the shared information is usually unsolicited, which means the listener did not ask for their Information.  This often leaves the listener feeling overwhelmed, uncomfortable, or even traumatized themselves. 因为这里听者并不是主动的去问的, 经过了对方的这样的一系列的创伤倾泻之后, 这个听的人往往会感觉到overwhelmed, 因为别人过度沉重的人生情绪上或者心理上你很难承受, 然后会觉得不适, 甚至会觉得traumatized themselves, 自己也经历了这种创伤. This is a phenomenon called secondary trauma. 有二手烟就有二手创伤. According to therapists, trauma dumping doesn't facilitate healing. It doesn't make the victim or the person who's doing the trauma dumping heal while it may provide short term relief to the person doing it. Ultimately, it doesn't help either party and leaves the listener feeling burdened and helpless. 专业的心理医生就说, 这种trauma dumping其实并不是特别的健康, 因为它不光会让被动听着你创伤体验的对象感觉非常不适, 甚至也受到二手创伤, 而且就算对于宣泄的人本身来说, 也并不能起到真正的疗愈作用. So how do you recognize trauma dumping?  The biggest red flag is if the listener has no chance to talk or share their own emotions, the person on the receiving end of these thoughts and emotions often feels overwhelmed and helpless because they aren't sure how to respond or may not be given an opportunity to respond. 我们怎么样能认出来一个人是不是在trauma dump? 最简单的就是看这个听trauma dump的人, ta是否有机会真正的表达自己的看法, 还是一味的被动的接受.很多这种trauma dumping的被动接受者, ta们会觉得非常不适一个原因就是ta不知道应该做出什么样的回应. 比如说你在对我trauma dump, 然后你说的事情都是特别heavy, 特别沉重, 特别创伤性的, 然后我又不是一个心理医生, 不是一个专业人士, 我完全不知道怎么安慰你, 我也不知道该怎么回应. 

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ KeywordsTo wrap up the travel discussion with some of the problems -Weather issues-Delays and cancellations-Crimes-Unspoken rules about certain places  But having said all of that, there are also some problems. I think we're going to wrap up the travel discussion with some of the problems because we don't want to sugarcoat it for people who are listening and haven't really traveled that much. It's not always...It's not always perfect. It's not always perfect. There are some miserable moments, for example, if the weather is bad, weather really makes or breaks your first impression of a city. I don't know to be honest, I've been to cities where it's been like terrible weather but I went travelling in November. It just shows a different side of the city. It means that you go into like a cosy pub or you go into a cosy cafe which is quite fun.I can see there’s a theme, so basically your traveling experience is just going around the world getting drunk, with different alcohol in different pubs.  OK. That might be a point.And going to language lessons to learn how to order drinks. Why not? I'm on holiday. Yeah. I don't know, weather is really something that makes or breaks my moods, my experience. Obviously I would feel great about a city, a new destination if it's perfect weather, for me it's sunny dry, if it's wet, I wouldn't really like the city that much. We got weather. Obviously you got delays and cancellations. Yeah, delays and cancellations. This especially when it's not even weather. It's like caused by human activities like strikes.The longest delay I've ever had is like 24 hours. Because of what? Strikes? Weather. And that's one of the reasons why I don't like flying is that trains are very rarely delayed, but planes, I've been on so many delayed planes in my time. That's actually one of the reasons why I hate going by plane anywhere. But I had also the experiences of being delayed on the train. I also had experiences of getting on the train and the train moved forward a bit and move start moving backwards.Okay. I thought you just got lost. Yeah. There are tracks I doubt very much.  But have you ever experienced any crimes? Yes, I once went somewhere and I met with a friend of mine. Her dad was the former chief of police in that city. I was with them and someone stole my camera.That's bold. Right underneath the nose of the former police chief. I know and bless him he was so embarrassed. He took me to the police station. Obviously everyone at the police station recognized him. I had to fill out a form for my insurance. I think he was more embarrassed about it than me. 

索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~How to save money?Red-eye flight 红眼航班Budget airlines 廉航·airports are far away·hidden costsCouch surfing 沙发冲浪 (risky)Hitchhiking 搭顺风车 (risky) What you can do at the destination. Sightseeing 观光游览Trying local food 品尝当地美食Buying souvenirs 购买纪念品Off the beaten track 另辟蹊径City walk 城市漫步Join a food tour 参加美食之旅Language lessons 语言体验课Scavenger hunt 寻宝游戏...I think that leads on to the next topic “how to save money?”. I don't know I used to take red-eye flights.Same here.红眼航班, 也就是差不多12点或者半夜之后出发的航班. I actually prefer ride red-eye flights...Because you can go to sleep. I can sleep on planes now. Because I'm traveling backs and forwards to the UK so often now that I can actually sleep on planes. So I don't like planes like during the day because you can't really sleep and it's too bright. But when you arrive, you still have to push through, although is your bedtime. And also budget airlines I think we both did budget airlines so 廉航, those budget to the ridiculous degree that they would charge you to go to toilets. Well, they said they were gonna do that. Thankfully they tried, thankfully they didn't. But the only thing with budget airlines is that the airports are so far away. So for example in London, one of the main budget airline airports is about 50-60 miles away from London. So that's what, like 70 kilometers as literally in another city. It is. Budget airlines, and there are also hidden costs. 廉航有很多隐藏的收费. You look at the price and you think this is so cheap, but most of us will have a check-in luggage and they charge you exorbitant price with the check-in luggage. Yeah. Ad if you want to select your seat, they charge you for that. And if you want to check in without a boarding card at the airport, they charge you for that. Everything, you have to pay for everything and they're very strict about that. Yes.So I don't really take budget airlines for longer trips just a... very like an hour and half trip. Not more than an hour and half, but the thing with budget airlines is that you really have to kind of explore because after you pay for all of additional features, the additional baggage and things like that, a normal regular flight might still be cheaper. And the other ways that people talk about in terms of money saving or budgeting, I think they're very risky like couch surfing, for example, that was popular for a while就是所谓的沙发客. You basically stay in someone's, let's just say spare couch. I don't really think women should do that in this day and age, it’s way too risky.  Couch surfing, hitchhiking. They are a bit dangerous. Personally I've never done them myself. Don't hitchhike, like for example, if you are a woman and then you are traveling alone, definitely don't hitchhike. But if you're like, a really beefy, really big guy, you can hitchhike, but nobody's gonna take you.Exactly. They're gonna think that you're gonna be a murderer or something like that. Exactly. So either way搭顺风车这个事情, 其实大家有时候在电影电视里面看到, 但是真的...OK, some of you might have had the experience and said you had a lovely experience, you met wonderful people. But that could just be because you're extremely lucky. It could be. 

搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~But that aside, let's get to the actual travels. Let's start packing first. Okay. Are you someone who travel light? I travel light and I travel really, really organized. Why am I not surprised? I'm the opposite. I know. I've seen how you've packed, so travel light for me, I have like one small backpack. I tried to fit what I can in it and just try and get everything into it. And normally like small toiletries, travel size toiletries, things like that. Let me guess you have the entire set of all of these travel equipments like travel set, toiletries, 什么旅行装的那些洗漱用具. I bet you have packing cubes. I do have packing cubes. Packing cubes are these little bags like you can put into your big luggage or suitcase so that they will keep your luggage organized. I do have packing cubes, they're brilliant. My idea of packing is really just throw...chuck everything... is just to chuck everything in within the probably the last half an hour. Okay, I can't do that. I would like to say I power pack. No, you just pack really badly, so for me for example I have a special pouch where it's got all of my cables that I need. I just prefer to travel very organized. I always keep... because I travel so much, I always keep my bag essentially packed so that I travel light, I can throw what I need in the bag and then I can go. 我记得很早之前有一次安澜第一次看到我pack的时候, 他已经忍不住要jump in to say, can I do this for you please because you are hurting my brains. Yes, it was not pretty. And this is also why and I'm the opposite of traveling light. So I generally have like checking luggage sometimes excess luggage. I have excess luggage if I'm bringing stuff back from the UK, but if I'm traveling I pretty much try to fit everything into one bag. I see, and one more question.yes.Unpacking, are you the type of person that comes back home from a long flight and then you immediately unpack? Yes.  God, how am I not surprised, it takes me a whole week to even start to realize hang on a minute I need to unpack.No, I unpack straight away. But, again as I say, I always keep one of my bags. I keep that semi packed, so that…You have a to-go bag?Yes, of course I got a to-go bag.Why, you're not a paramedic. No, but I travel a lot, so it saves a lot of time and make sure I got everything altogether in my bag. Ok, so everything packed. Let's set off on the journey. What kind of transport I actually know your answer because I know you so well.

Packing /UnpackingTravel light and organized or the opposite? On the journeyTransport-交通Flight 飞机Train 火车Coach 长途汽车Cruise/ship 邮轮/船 But that aside, let's get to the actual travels. Let's start packing first. Okay. Are you someone who travel light? I travel light and I travel really, really organized. Why am I not surprised? I'm the opposite. I know. I've seen how you've packed, so travel light for me, I have like one small backpack. I tried to fit what I can in it and just try and get everything into it. And normally like small toiletries, travel size toiletries, things like that. Let me guess you have the entire set of all of these travel equipments like travel set, toiletries, 什么旅行装的那些洗漱用具. I bet you have packing cubes. I do have packing cubes. Packing cubes are these little bags like you can put into your big luggage or suitcase so that they will keep your luggage organized. I do have packing cubes, they're brilliant. My idea of packing is really just throw...chuck everything... is just to chuck everything in within the probably the last half an hour. Okay, I can't do that. I would like to say I power pack. No, you just pack really badly, so for me for example I have a special pouch where it's got all of my cables that I need. I just prefer to travel very organized. I always keep... because I travel so much, I always keep my bag essentially packed so that I travel light, I can throw what I need in the bag and then I can go. 我记得很早之前有一次安澜第一次看到我pack的时候, 他已经忍不住要jump in to say, can I do this for you please because you are hurting my brains. Yes, it was not pretty. And this is also why and I'm the opposite of traveling light. So I generally have like checking luggage sometimes excess luggage. I have excess luggage if I'm bringing stuff back from the UK, but if I'm traveling I pretty much try to fit everything into one bag. I see, and one more question.yes.Unpacking, are you the type of person that comes back home from a long flight and then you immediately unpack? Yes.  God, how am I not surprised, it takes me a whole week to even start to realize hang on a minute I need to unpack.No, I unpack straight away. But, again as I say, I always keep one of my bags. I keep that semi packed, so that…You have a to-go bag?Yes, of course I got a to-go bag.Why, you're not a paramedic. No, but I travel a lot, so it saves a lot of time and make sure I got everything altogether in my bag. Ok, so everything packed. Let's set off on the journey. What kind of transport I actually know your answer because I know you so well.

Hi, everyone. And welcome back to 酒馆. Hi, 安澜. Hi, lulu. Hi, everyone. So what are we going to talk about today?  Well, next month I'm going on my holidays. So let's talk about travel.Hang on a minute, you're talking about us going to Europe. Yeah.That's not really a holiday. That's like a work trip. You will get some days off. Anyway it's going to be traveling, so even if we are going to be working some of the time, I'm sure we'll get some time off, well, hopefully, or I wanna get overtime.You're traveling with a workaholic. We’ll see. We'll see about that. But we're more excited to show you guys around places that we go to.  Yes, we're gonna be showing you around Germany and Poland in our live streams. If we can get the signal.If we can get the signals, yes. Otherwise we're gonna shoot videos and do other things and hopefully continue to live stream in some way.In some way or another. So I thought maybe today we can talk about traveling.AbsolutelyBig topic and I know this is a topic that both of us have a lot to say about. I absolutely love traveling, traveling for me is, I know it's meant to be a luxury but really I love traveling so much, even if I don't have much money, I would still want to spend that money on traveling.  So other people spend it on bread, you will spend it on traveling. Yes, and hopefully I will get bread when I'm traveling. That's a dream, isn't it?Yes.In this whole discussion, I think it will be like a few episodes of discussion and this will cover pretty much all aspects of traveling from the desire to travel, to transport, to packing, to things we do in the destination and then also like accommodation, things to watch out for, so on and so forth. So if you're a keen traveler, you're in for treat. Well, I would say let's start with the desire to travel. Well, the desire to travel. I've heard of this expression, which is really funny. It's having itchy feet. 英文里如果直接把它翻译成中文就是脚痒痒. You sure that's not like a foot fungus issue. No, it's not, having itchy feet means it's the desire that you really want to travel so you would say to people I'm really getting itchy feet, I really want to go on holiday or I really want to go traveling. I suppose put in that context, everyone would know that you want to move. Yes.You basically want to get out of your routine and travel and see more of the world, I've also heard of a word wonderlust which is supposed to be German, right? Yeah, it's wonder means sort of walk around and lust is desire, so essentially is the desire to walk around. For example, if you're in a new place that desired that you want to go and explore everything that is a form of wonder lust. 

＋小助手VX 【luluxjg2】领取全文稿哦~~Hi, everyone. And welcome back to the segment called It Means What? Yeah.Hi, 安澜。 Hello.欢迎大家回来【词源考古研究所】这个板块. So in this segment, we're going to explore the interesting origin of words and phrases. So 安澜, what is the word for today? Not so much a word but a phrase. Okay. 是短语Spill the beans. Spill the beans, it sounds familiar, spill是倒出来, 然后beans是豆子. Yeah. Is it something about secrets? It is, if you say you spill the beans, that means you accidentally tell a secret or you intentionally tell a secret. Oh, to spill the beans. I think we talked about something similar, was it “let the cat out of the bag”, 把猫放出口袋也是accidentally reveal a secret. But this can be intentionally or accidentally. Spill the beans. So I can say he accidentally spilled the beans,  but I can also say 安澜spill the beans, tell me the secret. Yes,  but why beans？It actually comes from ancient Greek voting practices. So we go back to ancient Greeks again. Yes. When they were voting, if they wanted to say yes, they would use a white stone or a bean to mean “yes” and a black one for “no”. 所以没有用纸写字的时候, 古希腊就是这样子来投票的. Yes. 一个白色的豆子或者石头, 小石块就是Yes.  And black one means no. When they collected all of the beans or the stones, then they will count them and they'll make a decision. I suppose they just put it in some sort of container. Nobody can see what they put in.Exactly, if someone spills the beans that literally means they accidentally or intentionally knock it over. So the secret results of the election are revealed before they intended them to be revealed. I see, that's why spill the beans is to reveal the results that should have been kept a secret at that point. There's quite a few expressions that come from this type of voting practice. For example, you might have heard the expression black ball. Oh, I've heard of that expression to black ball someone就是要“黑球”某个人. I think that means to keep someone outside like to reject someone. Yes, because the black bean or black stone was meant no. So it means no, that means that they don't want that person to join their club or join their society.To blackball someone simply means I voted “no”, like I say no to you exactly to exclude you. Precisely. Actually 安澜, have you ever heard of the new expression “spill the tea” which is all over the internet? I've heard that so many times, so many times. 最近这几年在社交媒体上火了一个词叫spill the tea, tea就是喝的茶. It's not exactly the same, but “spill the tea” means shared a gossip especially like scandal. 就是赶快爆料有什么大瓜, 惊天大瓜. If I say to 安澜, do you know anything about those two? Are they dating? Are they cheating on their spouses? and like spill the tea.  I'm useless at gossip. I never know anything. 

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi, 安澜.Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone. Can I propose a topic today? Okay.Don't worry, it's nothing weird. Are you sure? I'm pretty sure. Okay.  Lately also on Chinese social media, you see a lot of articles about your Princess of Wales, Kate, because there was a lot of gossip and discussion about how she is recovering from cancer and she hasn't really had any public appearance. She finally appeared for the first time in months at a very important ceremony apparently called... was it something color? The Trooping of the Color. The Trooping of the Color, troop as in army, military? Yeah. 中文里我看到过有很多不一样的翻译版本, 有人把它翻译成什么彩旗飘扬, 彩旗游行, 或者只要按这个意思说是皇家阅兵式. Yes, it's a very unique ceremony. I don't think it happens in many countries. I'm not sure if anyone does know, please correct me. It's very ceremonial. It is. The Troop of the Color marks the official birthday of the British sovereign. So like the British King or Queen, 这个皇室的要不是国王, 要不是女王的official birthday, 官方生日. So that's not their real birthday?The King or Queen has two birthdays, their real one and their official birthday in June. Why in June, for any special reasons? Mainly because of the weather.  I can understand. 我们之前聊英国的天气的时候, 就说特别是伦敦, 基本上你唯一能保证天气比较好, 也就是6月后半段7月前半段这个时候. So no matter what the weather is like, the ceremony still goes ahead. So the last Trooping of the Colour last week was actually done in pouring rain. It was really really heavy rain in London but they still carry on the ceremony. They just get wet. Even in June? Even in June.So no matter what their real birthdays or when their real birthdays are or were, they always had the same official birthday? It's normally a Saturday in June. So it’s not a set date? It’s not a set date.  I see. It looks like a pretty traditional historical ceremony. It is. It dates back to the 18th century. So the color or colors refer to the regiments’ flag.Regiments, what does that mean? A regiment is a unit of soldiers.Like, for example, infantry? Yeah, so you have an infantry regiment, you have...Navy maybe?Navy, you can't, navy doesn't really have regiments because you have a ship. Ok. 这是不是有点兵团那个概念? It is. 什么团步兵团这样. So everybody has it’s own name. For example, the regiments that take part in Trooping of the Color are the King's own personal regiments. He's guards.  I'm getting really confused. So not your military force? Okay, this is why it gets a bit confusing. You said the King's own military force. 

＋小助手VX 【luluxjg2】获取全文稿哦~~Welcome back to geek time advanced. How are you doing lulu? Hi Brad. I'm doing fine. So are we gonna talk about aliens and pyramids? Exactly. We talk about aliens a lot on the podcast and aliens are very interesting. And whenever there's some idea, whenever we have an idea that we don't really understand, we can easily just go to aliens. It's so convenient, isn't it? Aliens did it. Although when I was growing up, obviously learning about pyramids, all of these great ancient architectures, we generally attribute it to the wisdom of ancient people. However, there's another way to look at it.Exactly.There are people out there who truly believe in the whole theory of aliens have something to do or had something to do with pyramids. Mhm. Exactly. One of the theories posits that aliens either helped people create the pyramids or forced them to create the pyramids, so they could use them as landing sites for their spacecraft. I'm sorry, that is a bit silly. If they want to use it as a landing pad, why would they just use the ground? Why would they use the pointing stuff that is like the most... I think that is the most uncomfortable way to park your spaceship on top of the Egyptian pyramid. What we can kind of get into it a little bit later with some of Tesla’s thoughts, but the shape might have been on purpose right? There might be a reason for the shape and so we'll come back to that a little bit later. But a lot of people think that they might have been built by the aliens to be landing pads for their spaceships. Yeah, but you said they either helped or forced humans. I have something to say about that. I mean, logically, why would they help humans build that? For what reason, to what end? If they forced humans, what kind of power that they could tower over human? And if they had that level of power, why wouldn't they have just taken over earth? See, this would be my logic. There's a few theories. I think we might have talked about panspermia, but in the past, there's this idea that the aliens actually put us here. They put the humans on earth and helped us in our evolution to become to the point where we're at today. So they can use us as workers in the future. Oh, my god! Are we just a giant ant farm for the aliens? That's what some people believe. So the aliens it takes a long time to travel through the universe. So every time they come to earth, thousands of years might pass. And so people kind of forget that the fact that there are aliens out there; or if they do, they don't really believe because they haven't seen them in generations. And so it is a possibility. That is just a sad possibility. That reminds me of one of the episodes in Rick and Morty, like the Miniverse. So you realize your entire universe is just someone's car factory. Hahaha. That's possible. They sort of like make you work, brainwash you to work, so that by working it, by paddling something, you get so called money and live and salary. But in fact, you're just slaving away for whoever created your universe. You're just slaving away so that their car has battery. That could be, I think it's a lot less likely, but that with the pyramids and that we actually have some sort of, I wouldn't say it's evidence, because people could have easily made the pyramids. There's videos of a man who shows possible engineering techniques that people could have used. I mean he shows how he could move a rock a huge rock by himself, just using a few simple tools made of wood and rope.I'm very human centric. Yeah.So I still rather believe it was our ancestors, common human ancestors, that had the great wisdom, to move things, to make things, beyond we think, are their technological limitations and barriers.Yeah. I don't know if we've talked about Atlantis before but...Oh, we should, in the future. We haven't, but we should.

加小助手VX luluxjg2领取全文稿~1) Ride shotgun (sit in the seat next to the driver)a. This comes from the Wild West where the person who sat next to the driver carried a shotgun.b. This was so he could shoot anyone trying to rob the coach.  Hi, everyone. And welcome back to the segment called It Means What?  Yoho~Now that's new. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone. 欢迎大家回来【词源考古研究所】. So in this segment, we're going to explore the interesting origin of words and phrases. 安澜, actually, can I propose the word or the phrase for today? Yeah, why not? Because I always ask you what do we have for today? There's one thing and I'm sure a lot of our audience would share my confusion, which is, you know that a lot of times you watch like especially American TV show, you have these kids or really immature adults when they jump into the seat next to the driver they would say “I call shotgun”. 不知道大家在美剧里面有没有看过, 我不知道英国人会不会这么说.  We understand it, but we don't say anything.It’s an American thing. 对, 看美剧的时候, 就有很多小朋友或者那种心智不太成熟的成年人, 他们会跳到副驾的位置, 然后就说 I call shotgun, 你看到底下的字幕翻译一般都是说 “我抢了副驾的位置, 我抢了”。I always wondered sitting next to the driver, what does that have to do with shotgun which is a weapon.Yes. Ride shotgun or sit up front is sitting in the seat next to the driver.  It actually comes from the Wild West. The Wild West, is it like the all of those western movies? Exactly.  When you had cowboys and America was expanding west. 就是美国西部那种西部片, 也是like you draw your gun and shoot at each other, cowboys, that sort of thing.The whole idea that it was a lawless environment. There are not many people, there was lots of fights, cowboys, bandits. So back then apparently the person who sat next to the driver in a stagecoach carried a shotgun.Hang on, what is the stagecoach? A stagecoach is a horse carriage, but it's almost like public transport, so it goes a set route. It's normally covered and it is used for post and also for carrying passengers. It's kind of like the horse drawn version of a bus. Just the smaller version of it. Mini bus.  A horse drawn version of minibus. Exactly. So it's called a stagecoach because it used to travel different stages of the journey. 公共马车那种感觉. So the person who sat next to the driver carried a shotgun. So he could shoot anyone who tried to rob the coach. So it’s kind of like a bodyguard. Almost like a bodyguard, because also there were attacks from bandits. They were also attacks from wild animals. If we believe in any of these Wild West movies, it's really like you said, it was a lawless place. Everyone was shooting each other really wild. So that's why they say ride shotgun because the person who sat next to the driver had to carry a shotgun to protect the driver. You know what this reminds me of, when we were doing China Story, the course, you remember when we were talking about swordsman, talking about Chinese martial arts, say these kung fu masters, they would become like armed escorts. Yeah, it's the same idea. Exactly the same idea有点. 像我们押镖的那种人一样. And then they have this shotgun and they were just protecting the coach. 

Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来极客时间. Hi, Brad.Hi Lulu.So what are we going to talk about today? Have you ever seen the pyramids? The pyramids金字塔吗?  I haven't really been to Egypt. I always wanted to go. Pyramids aren't only in Egypt. They're all over the world. Have you been to like Mexico, maybe?Yeah. In that case, I have seen pyramids actually. Thanks for reminding me. I've seen pyramids in Mexico. Yeah, a lot of times when mentioned the pyramids, people think of the Great Pyramids of Egypt, but there have been pyramids all over the world, which makes people really think that there is something else going on here. There's pyramids in Sudan, Mexico, Italy, Peru, not just Africa, but in like South America as well, which is a whole another world away. But they're all slightly different. I mean, obviously we're more probably, our audience are more familiar with the pyramids in Egypt, which is pointy at the top, but like the pyramids in South America, in Central America, like Mexico. I went to Teotihuacán and the pyramids there at the top is not pointy, is like a flat type.  Yeah. There's... the general shape is fairly similar, but some of the aspects of the pyramids are different. It could be based on their beliefs and what they use the pyramids for, but they're all different sizes, but they all generally have the same general shape. If you think about it, it is a mysterious thing, isn't it? If many different ancient civilizations across continents are building or were building more or less the same sort of thing. What's that about? Yeah. It's not only just that they're very similar in shape, some of the designs, some of the decorations that they put on the pyramids are very similar. Some of the faces, some of the other additions they've made to pyramids were very similar even from Africa to South America. So let's dive a little bit deeper into the topic of pyramids. First of all, when were they built, Egyptian ones were built like 5,000 years ago?Yeah, so according to most historians, the pyramids were built about 5,000 years ago, ancient Egypt only really emerged about 6,000 years ago. Some of the other pyramids were built about 2,000 years ago. Recently, there has been some other pyramids found such as GÖBEKLI TEPE, which is found in Turkey. 这个叫什么哥贝克利石阵，就在土耳其发掘. That was in the 19th, right? It was discovered very very recently compared with the other things. Right. Yeah. So people have known about the great pyramids for a long time yet they're easily seen. GÖBEKLI TEPE was partially underground. And so a lot of people didn't even see it. It looks like it was covered up. But a lot of the things they found around the site are about 12,000 years old.Wow.So like if those things are on top of the pyramid, and so that means the pyramid must be older than that. 

关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】领取全文稿~“Now, the calculation was simple. If a rod of six feet made a shadow of nine, then a tree of sixty-four feet would make one of ninety-six. I measured the distance, almost reaching the house wall, and placed a peg. You can imagine how excited I was, Watson, when I found a depression in the ground just two inches from my peg. It was Brunton’s mark, and I knew I was on the right track. “Starting from there, I took steps, first noting the cardinal points with my pocket compass. Ten steps in each direction along the house wall, marking each spot with a peg. Then I measured five steps to the east and two to the south, bringing me to the old door’s threshold. Two steps west led me down the stone passage, as the Ritual indicated.” “I felt a deep disappointment, Watson. I thought I had made a big mistake in my calculations. The setting sun lit up the passage floor, showing that the old stones were firmly in place, untouched for years. Brunton hadn’t been here. I tapped the floor, but it sounded the same everywhere, no cracks or openings. Thankfully, Musgrave, now understanding my process, pointed out my error: I had missed the ‘and under’ part.” “I thought it meant we had to dig, but then I realized I was wrong. ‘There’s a cellar under here?’ I exclaimed. ‘Yes, as old as the house. Down here, through this door.’” “We descended a winding stone stair. My companion lit a lantern, revealing we had found the right place, recently visited by others.” “The room, once used for wood storage, now had the wood piled to the sides, leaving a clear space. In the middle lay a large flagstone with a rusted iron ring, attached to which was Brunton’s muffler. ‘By Jove!’ exclaimed my client. ‘That’s Brunton’s muffler. I’ve seen it on him. What has he been doing here?’ At my suggestion, two county police officers were called. With their help, we moved the stone to reveal a black hole. Musgrave, kneeling, lowered the lantern.” “We found a small chamber, seven feet deep and four feet square. In one corner was a squat, brass-bound wooden box. Its lid, with an old-fashioned key, was covered in dust and fungi. Several metal discs and old coins were scattered inside, but nothing else.” However, at that moment, we didn’t pay attention to the old chest, because we were focused on what was next to it. It was a man dressed in black, crouched beside the chest. He was sitting with his forehead resting on the edge of the box and his arms stretched out on each side. The position had drained the blood from his face, and his distorted, pale face made it impossible to recognize him. However, his height, clothes, and hair confirmed to my client, when we lifted the body, that it was indeed his missing butler. He had been dead for several days, but there were no visible wounds to indicate how he had died. When his body was taken from the cellar, we still faced a problem almost as difficult as the one we started with. I must admit, Watson, that until now I had been disappointed with my investigation. I had hoped to solve the case once we found the place mentioned in the ritual, but now that we were there, it seemed we were no closer to uncovering what the family had hidden with such care. While I had shed light on Brunton's fate, I now needed to discover how he had met his end and what role the missing woman had played in the matter. I sat down on a barrel in the corner and carefully considered the whole situation. You know my methods in such situations, Watson. I try to put myself in the person's shoes and, considering their intelligence, imagine what I would do in their place. In this case, it was clear that Brunton was highly intelligent, so I didn't need to adjust for that factor. He knew something valuable was hidden and had found its location. He realized the stone covering it was too heavy to move alone. What would he do next? He couldn't get help from outside without risking exposure.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ “If you think it's necessary,” he replied hesitantly. "To continue my story, I locked the bureau again with Brunton's key and was about to leave when he came back and stood before me.‘Mr. Musgrave, sir,’ he said hoarsely, ‘I can’t handle disgrace. I've always been proud, and disgrace would destroy me. My blood will be on your head if you drive me to despair. If you can't keep me after what happened, let me give you notice and leave in a month, as if it's my choice. I could handle that, Mr. Musgrave, but not being cast out in front of everyone I know.’‘You don't deserve much consideration, Brunton,’ I replied. ‘Your behavior has been terrible. But as you've been with us for a long time, I don't want to publicly disgrace you. A month is too long, though. Leave in a week, and you can give any reason you like.’‘Only a week, sir?’ he cried. ‘At least give me two weeks!’”“A week,’ I said again, ‘and you can consider yourself lucky to be let off so lightly.’‘He slouched away, looking broken, while I put out the light and went back to my room.‘For the next two days, Brunton worked diligently as if nothing had happened. I didn't mention what occurred and waited to see how he would explain his absence. But on the third morning, he didn't show up after breakfast, which was unusual. As I left the dining room, I bumped into Rachel Howells, the maid. She had recently recovered from an illness and looked pale and weak, so I scolded her for working.”“‘You should be resting,’ I said. ‘Come back to work when you feel better.’‘She gave me a strange look and said, “I'm fine, Mr. Musgrave.”‘We'll see what the doctor says,’ I replied. ‘You should stop working for now. When you go downstairs, just tell them I want to see Brunton.’‘The butler's gone,’ she said.‘Gone? Where?’‘He's gone. No one has seen him. He's not in his room. Oh, yes, he's gone, he's gone!’ She collapsed against the wall, laughing and crying, while I hurried to ring the bell for help. They took her to her room, still sobbing, while I asked about Brunton. He had vanished. His bed hadn't been slept in, and no one had seen him since the night before. But all the doors and windows were locked in the morning. His clothes, watch, and money were in his room, but his black suit was missing. His slippers were gone, but his boots were left behind. Where could Brunton have gone, and what happened to him?”“We searched the house thoroughly, but found no trace of him. It's a huge old house, especially the original wing, which is mostly empty. We checked every room and cellar but found nothing. It seemed impossible for him to leave all his belongings behind. I called the local police, but they couldn't find him either. It had rained the night before, so we looked for footprints in the lawn and paths, but found nothing. While we were still puzzled about Brunton, another mystery emerged.”“Rachel Howells had been very ill for two days, sometimes delirious, sometimes hysterical. A nurse was hired to watch over her at night. On the third night after Brunton disappeared, the nurse fell asleep in the armchair and woke up in the early morning to find the bed empty, the window open, and no sign of Rachel. I woke up immediately, and with the footmen, we went to look for her. We followed her footprints to the lake, where they disappeared near the gravel path leading out of the grounds. The lake is eight feet deep, and you can imagine our shock when we saw her trail ending at the edge of it.”“We used drags to search the lake but found no body. However, we found a linen bag containing rusty metal pieces and dull-colored pebbles. That was all we found, and despite searching and asking around, we still don't know what happened to Rachel Howells or Richard Brunton. The local police are stumped, so I've come to you as a last resort.”

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ One thing that always surprised me about my friend Sherlock Holmes was his contradictory habits. On one hand, he was incredibly organized and methodical in his thinking, but on the other hand, he was extremely messy in his personal life. Despite his neat appearance, he tended to keep his things in a disorganized manner, which often annoyed those around him. Personally, I'm not very conventional either, especially after my experiences in Afghanistan, which made me less strict about tidiness. However, there's a limit to how much mess I can tolerate. When I see someone storing their cigars in strange places like the coal-scuttle, or keeping their unanswered mail stuck to the mantelpiece with a knife, I start to feel a bit self-righteous. I've always believed that shooting practice should be done outdoors, so when Holmes would sit indoors, shooting his pistol at the wall, I wasn’t particularly happy about it.Our room was always cluttered with chemicals and items from past criminal cases. These things had a tendency to end up in strange places, like the butter dish or even worse spots. But the biggest problem was his papers. He hated getting rid of documents, especially those related to his previous cases. However, he only mustered the energy to organize them once every year or two. After his bursts of energy, he would become lethargic, spending his time lying on the sofa with his violin and books. Month after month, his papers piled up until every corner of the room was filled with bundles of manuscripts. They couldn't be burned and only he could put them away. One winter night, as we sat by the fire, I suggested that he spend the next two hours tidying up our room since he had finished working on his commonplace book. He couldn't argue with my suggestion, so he reluctantly went to his bedroom and returned with a large tin box. He placed it in the middle of the floor and opened it, revealing bundles of paper tied up with red tape."There are plenty of cases here, Watson," he said, giving me a mischievous look. "I think if you knew everything I have in this box, you'd ask me to take some out instead of putting more in." "Are these records from your early work?" I asked. "I've always wished I had notes from those cases." "Yes, my friend, these were all done before my biographer came to make me famous," he said, lifting bundles of papers gently. "They're not all successes, Watson," he continued. "But there are some interesting problems among them. Here's the record of the Tarleton murders, and the case of Vamberry, the wine merchant, and the adventure of the old Russian woman, and the strange affair of the aluminium crutch, along with a full account of Ricoletti of the club-foot, and his terrible wife. And here – ah, now, this is something unique." He reached to the bottom of the chest and pulled out a small wooden box with a sliding lid like those used for children's toys. From inside, he took out a crumpled piece of paper, an old-fashioned brass key, a wooden peg with a ball of string, and three rusty metal discs. "Well, my friend, what do you think of this collection?" he asked, smiling at my reaction."It's an interesting collection.""Very interesting, and the story behind it is even more fascinating.""Do these relics have a story?""So much so that they are the story.""What do you mean by that?"Sherlock Holmes picked up each item one by one and placed them along the edge of the table. Then he sat back down in his chair and examined them with a satisfied look in his eyes."These," he said, "are all I have left to remind me of the adventure of the Musgrave Ritual."I had heard him mention the case before, though I never knew the details. "I would be very grateful," I said, "if you could tell me about it.""And leave the mess as it is?"

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Keywords 1)Sandwicha.Named after the Earl of Sandwich in the 18th Century.b.He loved gambling and never wanted to leave the gambling table.c.He asked his servant to put some cold meat in between two slices of bread as he could eat one-handed without a knife and fork.d.His friends started to order ‘the same as Sandwich’e.Now eaten around the world. Also called a ‘butty’ or a ‘sarnie’.f.In 2003, a man in Belgium stole diamonds worth 100 million dollars from a vault that was protected by multiple security mechanisms, including a lock with 100 million possible combinations, a seismic sensor, Doppler radar, infrared heat detectors, and a magnetic field. He was caught because he left a partially eaten sandwich near the crime scene which was used as a DNA evidence.Hi everyone, and welcome back to the segment called It Means What?Yay. Hi, 安澜. Hi, Lulu, hi, everyone. 欢迎大家回来【词源考古研究所】这个板块, so in this segment, we're going to explore the interesting origin of words and phrases. So 安澜, what is the word for today? Well, I know how much you like food. Thank you. So I've chosen one that's food related. But hang on, it’s not British food, is it? Yes. It’s not fish and chips, is it? How can we explore the etymology of fish and chips? A fish is a fish, chip is a chip. So what is it? Sandwich.Not so much better sandwich, 三明治. I think I've read that somewhere. Isn't that the name of a guy? It is the Earl of Sandwich. The Earl of Sandwich. Earl is like an aristocratic title,伯爵, but you have Earl Grey like the tea. So this guy literally is called Sandwich. But he wasn't named after a sandwich. The sandwich was named after him. True. Give us the story. So it's quite a famous story. Now the Earl of Sandwich in the 18th century loved gambling. 就赌博。 Really really loved gambling. And when he was gambling, he never wanted to leave the gambling table. So one day he asked his servant to put some cold meat in between two slices of bread, cold meat, Cold meat, it's not meat that has been cooled down. It's like cold cuts, right? Yes.冷餐的什么火腿切的那种 a cold meat, 熟食。So the reason why he did this is that he could eat one handed while the other hand he held his cards. So get rid of knife and fork. No knife and fork. Just use breads as wrapping. Exactly. So he used to do this when he was gambling. And eventually his friends started to order the same as Sandwich. I see. So he got his servants to prepare the bread exactly as he liked it, pieces of meat within two slices of bread. And then his friends looked at it, well, looks yummy just same as Sandwich.Exactly. And then it became a sandwich. I see I would love to have some food named after me. They'd be calling it a Lulu. I don't think it would be that tasty though. Really?No comment.All right, the same as sandwich I see, but sandwich then got hugely popular because actually what's not to like everything is a lot of... even though in Chinese we don't call it a sandwich but we have a lot of sandwich-like stuff, think about like our 肉夹馍, that's also meat within bread essentially. Exactly. That's the whole thing I think because it's so brilliantly simple. now it's eaten around the world. And we got so many different names for it as well. Sometimes it's called a ‘butty’ or it's called a ‘sarnie’. I've never heard of those two, that must be British. They are very British, they are quite British. In American English, they also have a lot of I don't think it's a general slang for sandwich, but they have a lot of specific sandwich types and they would call it, for example, a Meatball Sub like a submarine sandwich; or going down south, you have things like Po’Boy, things like that.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Welcome back to Geek Time advanced. This is Brad. How's it going? Lulu? It's going. Hi, Brad. So I'm quite excited to dig a bit deeper into Men in Black. As you know, I'm always interested in urban legends, various kinds of urban legends. Last time we talked about Men in Black being, these men in black suits, they're always spotted right after like a UFO sighting, they seem to be test with just intimidating or threatening people to not to talk about the alien or UFO sightings. Is that... do people think it's a government thing like they've been sent by the government? Many people think that it's like this offshoot of the FBI. No government agency has really taken credit for it, but a lot of people think that they might be connected to the FBI, some people even think that they might have started off as the FBI, but then they went rogue, so they kind of made their own organization. I like that. So it's like a rogue cop. Like in the very beginning, they were working for the government and then they sort of just run amok. This has gone wild, gone feral. What might have happened is some consortium of rich people might have said, “hey, we can use the technology from the aliens. So let's not let people know about the aliens, and let's control everything using this organization and they might have splintered off”. Yeah. I mean, we'll get into the usual storyline of a crazy gazillionaire there, sponsoring them to find out more about aliens and UFO. Actually, I have another theory. They might not even be human, men in black, they don't sound human. They could themselves be aliens. They could be, or they could be two different groups there. They could be working together, some might be human, some might be alien. Some sightings of them make them sound perfectly like human. They talk like humans, they look like humans, but some of the sightings make it sound like they don't look very human at all. They have a human shape, but they're very pale and their skin tone and everything is just off. So they are some sort of drone like creatures. It almost sounds like that. Yeah. But this whole idea I have to say that it screams conspiracy theory. 我们之间谈过这个阴谋论. Don't you think it screams conspiracy theory?Definitely. Definitely. It's whenever there's something like this, people are always going to go to conspiracy theories. People seem to like, I think people everywhere in this world, love to think that they've something's hidden in plain sight. There's always some sort of government cover up. There's always this mystery or mysterious plots brewing somewhere under the surface. Right?Right.Is it America's specific thing? Actually, it's not just America. I haven't seen very many sightings of places in a lot of other countries, but there have been a few sightings of the men in black and like the UK, there was one in Cumbria. Man was taking a photo, and in the photo, it looked like there was an alien in the background, or some sort of weird man in a futuristic space suit. Okay.So they took the photo and Kodak, the camera company authenticated the photo as being legit film not been tampered with. So after they authenticated it. Some men showed up to the man's house. They were known as No.9 and No.11. They came to his house and visited him to talk to him about this. They took him to the place where he took the photo and kind of intimidated him and got mad.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~Hi, everyone and welcome back to Geek Time. Hi, Brad. Hey Lulu, how's it going? So what are you going to propose that we talk about today? Have you ever heard of the Men in Black? You want to talk about the movie? No, not the movie, of course not. We never talk about movies. The book? The comment?No. The real Men in Black. Hang on a minute就是黑衣人。Are they actually real?Yeah, they're real. According to popular legend at least they are real organization. Okay. So let's talk... I'm always into urban legends. Let's talk about Men in Black then. I, because my whole understanding of Men in Black is basically based on the movie. I think there were two or three movies, 就是黑衣人那个系列的电影. They sort of combat aliens or they are in contact with aliens, all the alien species. They seem to be like the contact people. 如果大家没有看过黑衣人电影的话, 可以去看一看，这个电影已经蛮老了, 但是还是蛮有意思的. But who are they? So that's always a really difficult thing to really know, according to a lot of people say they’re Men in Black are just people in business suits who show up to UFO sightings. Whenever there's a UFO sighting or whenever some people are talking about the UFOs, they're the ones who show up and tell people to be quiet. So, they have been seen in many times throughout the years. There is even some video footage of people who are supposedly men in black. There's video footage.Yeah. There's like you don't really see the interaction between them, but at a UFO sighting in a hotel, there were two men who showed up after two of the employees just were talking about the UFO to the news. I see. So is it the sort of idea that government or some sort of organization doesn't want people to know about the real possibility of UFO or aliens, 好像是一个cover up situation that they use these men in black. I remember in the movie that they had this machine that they can erase your memory. So that is something that people actually talk about as something that Men in Black can use or do. Sometimes people say that it's not really a machine, it's just the way you feel like that when the Men in Black come to talk to you, they're kind of like these cold emotionless people. They may not even be real people.They might be drones.It might be aliens themselves. Right. But they come they talk to you, they intimidate you. And sometimes after they come, people feel like they've lost some of their memory of what happened. It's kind of like intimidation tactic and brainwashing at the same time. I feel like I've seen similar setup in like the Matrix. Yeah. The agents are often seen as being like the men in black. They're kind of modeled after the men in black. There are people that just kind of show up whenever there's a problem in the Matrix, which is kind of like when the aliens come to earth, right, there's a problem in the Matrix. I see. I see. But is this a very common belief like if you talk to, say, average American, do they, have they heard of or at least have some awareness of the idea of men in black?Well yeah. This has been very common theme for the last at least 40 or 50 years, ever since I was a kid I've heard of the men in black. TV shows have talked about the men in black. There’s unsolved mysteries TV shows that talked about these people that show up whenever people talk about aliens.I see.Very, very interesting.I see. 所以黑衣人就是，只要老百姓发现了外星人或者宇宙飞船的话, 黑衣人就会来到你的家, 就是让你不要再讲这个事情了.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ 1)Mysterya.Comes from the Greek word for ‘mysterion’ which means ‘secret religious ritual’ or ‘religious secret’b.The Greeks had religious celebrations which were secret and anyone taking part had to swear a vow of secrecy. c.Anyone who broke the vow was executed. d.We still don’t really know what happened when the participants went into the building. e.Some believe that they took drugs or even murder!Hi everyone, and welcome to the segment called 【It Means What?】 hi 安澜.Hi lulu, hi everyone. 欢迎大家回来【词源考古研究所】这个板块. So in this segment, we're going to explore the interesting origin of words and phrases. So 安澜, what is the word for today? Today's word is Mystery. Mystery就是神秘. I love mystery, movies, books and I especially love murder mystery. Oh, I love murder mystery, Miss Marple, Agatha Christie, Sherlock Holmes, all of those mysteries I love.Yes, do you know Miss Marple is Agatha Christie?Yes, I know, but I was trying to think of some more. Yet, you only come up with two, but okay, let's come back to the word mystery. I'm sure mystery has a mysterious origin. It comes from the Greek word ‘mysterion’ . Mysterion, r-i-o-n. Which means a secret religious ritual or a religious secret. Okay. So originated from like a religious context 是有宗教背景的是吗? Yeah. So many of you have probably listened to our episodes on the Greek myths, so the Greeks had lots of different gods. There was one particular god when they worshipped her. Her?It was her. When they worshiped her, they actually had secret rituals. Was this like an evil goddess or something? No. It was a fertility goddess responsible for the earth and farming. 叫丰产的女神, 但是大家的崇拜仪式都得是在secret都得是私下在秘密保密进行. The most famous version of these were called the mysteries, and the celebrations, the rituals, everything was secret and anyone taking part had to swear a vow of secrecy. Hang on a minute. You said the most famous ones were called mysteries. Do you mean when you say mysteries this referred to the rituals themselves? 当时的一系列这种仪式就叫做Mysteries or Mysterion. Yeah, or mysteria. Ok. And then you said people who were involved and as they had to swear a vow of secrecy就是要保密, 要做这种保密宣誓, 就保密承诺. Yes. Is this like nowadays signing the confidentiality agreement or something? In those days, it was even stricter because anyone who broke the vow was executed or killed.Yeah, I'm sorry. This is like one of those stories that didn't really make a logical sense because if everyone who were ever involved in those mysteria swore a vow of secrecy, then how did we know? All we know is that these rituals took place, but nobody knows what happened. So these rituals happened in a huge temple, in a town very close to Athens, the modern capital of Greece.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ The other word that I often hear is booty. What is booty? B-o-o-t-y. That means the same as loot. loot就是抢劫到的那个赃物. But normally we use it when we talk about pirate booty, so it's the whole idea you got a massive treasure chest filled with gold and silver and precious stones. Normally we would say that's pirate booty. This could only really happen like, I guess back then when ships were transferring these precious metals, and nowadays there are no precious metals on the ships. You don't know, there's actually quite a few ships that get robbed by piracy. So you think of all those container ships around the world. Oh. Perhaps, yes.And at least these Spanish galleons they had cannon. I can't think of many container ships having a cannon on board. And also pirate ships that strike me as very hierarchical, because they're completely men, right? And men at sea and with no laws and whatever. Well. You say that there were actually a few female pirates as well. How does that work? I would think, yeah, I can't imagine that. It is true. It must be badass women. There're some great stories which we don't really have time to go into, but if you're interested, I would say it's only worth having a look at.Yeah. But basically these pirates and also sometimes is that the word mutiny?Yes.Sometimes like if the leader is not strong enough and that people want to rebel against him, then there's a mutiny就是会像兵变一样的. Yeah. So we can talk about a mutiny on a ship. We can also talk about a mutiny in the army, so it's when the sailors or the soldiers decide that their commander is not good enough. So the most famous example is also around this time. And it's called Mutiny on the Bounty. On the Bounty?The Bounty was a famous ship and the mutineers, in the end, they just went to a small island in the pacific, and there's actually an island in the pacific which their descendants still live on. I see. Nowadays do people still believe that there is some hidden treasure somewhere on these little islands, small islands? That is a common stereotype that pirates will always bury their treasure, but to be honest, why would they, let's be honest. They will probably have spent it.Exactly. If you're a pirate, you spend a lot of time and effort to steal the treasure. Why would you then bury it?True.But having said that, there are stories of famous shipwrecks in the Caribbean, and people are still searching for these shipwrecks. 哦，就沉船的那个残骸。Maybe there is some pirate booty or pirate loot. There are a few ships wrecks that they say though billions of dollars’ worth of gold and silver under the sea. Wow, certainly something to think about.Absolutely. But one thing I have noticed up till now, though we were talking about a lot of these like booty things, pieces of eight, it just sounds very lingo, like jargony.Yes.听上去就像行话、黑话这种. I know that pirate language is a completely different category like what 安澜 mentioned in the very beginning, says Ahoy matey or like Arghh.Yes.Let's talk about pirate language. Yeah, so if you watch anything about pirates, you probably hear these expressions. So, “shiver my timbers”. shiver my timbers. Shiver is 颤抖，shake.Yeah. Break into pieces.Oh. So it's, how do we use it? It's a bit like saying “oh, my god!”.You scare me that sorts of thing…

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to 酒馆. Hi, 安澜. Ah~~What is the matter, what's going on? Are you stuck? Are you ill? Avast, ye matey. Oh~~~~, I know what we're gonna talk about today. Are we gonna talk about pirates?Ahoy.Okay. Stop it now.Ok.听到安澜刚才说的那些话, 我就知道我们今天要讨论的是 pirates. 海盗Yes. So today I thought it would be interesting to talk a little bit about pirates, and also we can look at some of the language they are supposed to use. I like pirate talks. It's just every time I know they're criminals, but it's just adventure stories that's sort of like excitement.Well, exactly. If you think back to our course, we actually talk about Treasure Island in that. And a lot of the stereotypes around pirates actually come from that book. 对，我们的那个宝藏音频课程，就是【名著扫盲班】里面第一季就讲到了金银岛, Treasure Island, 金银岛其实基本上是属于这个类型海盗文学的这个鼻祖了.Yes.So let’s talk about pirate, p-i-r-a-t-e, pirate.Yes.Not to be confused with private. No, pirate. So what is a pirate? Pirate, 我们叫 “海盗” 就是bandits on the sea. Yeah. Well, essentially that's what it is. A pirate is someone who robs and steals from ships, particularly merchant ships. Merchant ships are ships that are selling things.Yes.商船。 Now, piracy, we call the crime piracy, has been a crime for centuries, and there's still pirates nowadays.Hang on a minute. Piracy, 就是海盗的行为, 对吧? But nowadays we say piracy as in盗版。For example, piracy of copyright stuff. Yeah. So when we talk about privacy, it can be nautical privacy.Mhm.Or it can be video piracy. Nautical means about sailing.Yeah.航海的这个词。Nautical, it’s a nautical term.Yes.And there's no pirates today, right? Like the pirates pirates, arghh pirates, they are pirates. They probably not are pirates, but certainly in some parts of... near Africa, also in the ocean, there are still pirates around.Because a large part of the ocean is still it's difficult to sort of control and govern. Exactly. But today we're gonna be talking about what is known as the golden age of piracy. It's just so paradoxical, because piracy is supposed to be a bad thing as a crime, but you call it the golden age of piracy. Yeah.就是海盗的黄金年代. So this is the era of, for example, pirates in the Caribbean. The whole pirates of the Caribbean /kærɪˈbi:ən/ or Caribbean /kəˈrɪbiən/, 加勒比海盗就是那个时候.Yes. And this is around 1650~1720. Now this was a time of wars between Britain and Spain. So, Britain then controlled a lot of North America. Spain controlled a lot of Central and South America. If you read your history, if you know your history, then you would know that there were lots of conflicts between the British fleets and the Spanish fleets. Yeah, and also the French as well, pretty much everyone was fighting in the Caribbean at that time. And back then Spain, most of its economy relied on gold and silver from South America, and galleons (15-18世纪用做军舰或商船的西班牙大帆船) used to transport all of this precious material from Mexico and South America to Spain. Galleons is a specific ship. Yeah. A galleon is a very large sailing ship, and we still talk about galleons and we think about galleons when we think of pirates, these very big ships with lots of sales, lots of cannon. Almost stereotypical.Yeah.When you think of pirate stories, you think about galleons.Yes.Mhm. Now the strange thing is that originally pirates were encouraged to attack Spanish ships. Encouraged by whom, by you guys? Yes. Britain was at war with Spain. And back then, the government would actually give a license to what we call privateers. Now a privateer is not part of the navy. They were a private individual, but they had a letter from the British government saying if they wanted to attack a Spanish ship, they were allowed to.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, 欢迎回来酒馆。And this is a special episode because this is Episode-1000.酒馆节目1000期了。Time really does fly，感觉500期的特别节目也没有过去太久，但想来那已经是2020年底的事了，转眼又是4年。500期节目咱们的基调是情怀，1000期就来个超接地气的快问快答，自己采访自己说几句真心话，也给一直支持酒馆的酒粉，特别是自己在创业或者在新媒体自媒体领域的小伙伴们，聊聊这1000期的幕后故事，废话不多说，咱们开始吧。Host第一个问题就是：璐璐为什么会想到开始做酒馆节目呢？Lulu:I actually talked about this in Episode 500. 其实我在500期的时候就讲过这个事情，我是在大学里面教书，然后最开始的时候，有的学生比较喜欢我的课，然后就说璐璐能不能下课之后，你把你有一些东西放到网上，比如说用音频的形式，这样我们平时即使是培训课程结束了，我们依然可以去听到你讲的这个东西。所以我就做了一个。我最初的大概六七百个粉丝，都是我线下实实在在认识的学生学员。如果大家还记得最开始的时候也做做停停，第一期我是抱着我的猫坐在那儿想了一个下午，断断续续的那样录的，背景好像还有猫叫。我现在已经不好意思再去听第一集了。因为尬的我想“抽”，大家喜欢考古的可以去听听看。Host我听过那一集，璐璐那个慵懒的台湾腔还蛮可爱的，现在酒馆有多少粉丝，发展情况怎么样？Lulu现在酒馆的粉丝全网是刚过了150万，我们现在的业务大概是有三块，一块是content creation，也就是自媒体的内容出产。这里我们既有图文的就是公众号，然后有音频的像音频的播客，然后还有视频号短视频的东西，再加上我们每一周现在基本上9~10场直播；第二块业务就是酒馆的学院，这里面我们有直播课程、录播课程、学习的社群等等；第三块是酒馆的零售品牌【酒馆铺子】，大家可以到微信小程序里面搜索一下就可以看到了。酒馆铺子我们也是有专门的零售团队在运营，有我们非常有品位的铺子大掌柜的和我们后面的零售专家在管，我现在自己主要平时的工作是跟前两块有关，当然了还包括酒馆整个的一个运营的战略性的东西。Host 哇，酒馆现在已经有150万粉丝了。那酒馆设计、图文、音频、播客、视频、直播等等新媒体内容的出产领域，做这些有什么区别呢，我很好奇？Lulu 现在图文和播客可以说风口已经过去了，所以其实现在很难，图文你要想做起来非常的难，因为想要涨粉非常困难；音频其实也是一个差不多的状态，特别是这种播客型的音频，咱们说的音频这里只是说原创的内容，不包括有声书的这种播讲，然后视频也没有前几年那么容易起量，然后可能现在很多的人都转到直播了，我相信可能大家也有感觉，有一些你原来会在播客里面听到的人，现在都转去做了视频或者直播，因为实在是没有办法。做这些，其实每一个图文也好，音频、视频、直播每一个要做好都非常的难，而ta们其实之间壁垒挺明显的。比如说突破图文去做到音频，突破音频的壁垒，做到视频和直播，每一次都是一场恶仗，而且很可能会输。

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi 安澜. Hi, lulu, hi everyone. Now. I think we're gonna go a little bit more up market. We're gonna go to an area called Saint James.Oh, by the way, 安澜, when you say up market that means the higher end. Very high end.就是更高端的. St. James, isn't that a park？St. James is also an area. It's around Saint James’s Palace, so it's near Buckingham Palace. And it's near Piccadilly.白金汉宫前面那一条大道旁边不就有一个公园是St. James’s Park. Yes.So you're gonna talk about the shops in that area. Now most of the shops in this area have what we call a royal warrant. A royal warrant. Let me guess it's warranted by the Royal Family? YEAH. So it's warranted by the King, the Queen, and the Prince of Wales. So any company or any shop that sells products to the Royal Family can show a royal warrant.Oh, I thought it was just approved by them, but this is literally they sell it directly to the Royal Family. Yeah. So it means that for example the King shops at that shop. You mean like he personally would go into those shops?No, of course not.I would think not.No, they deliver. They do delivery services. Exactly. Yon know, some European not like in England, but I've heard some European Royal Houses like the Royal Families, for example, in Scandinavian countries, the Queen or their Royal Family would literally just go down the street into the shops and say hi to the locals. Yeah. Not in the UK. These shops around St. James’s is I would say mostly have royal warrants. So I'm gonna talk about one or two of them. Okay. The first one is Berry Brothers and Rudd. Let me guess Berry Brothers and Rudd , this just people who went into business, the pair of brothers Berry and then you have Rudd.Now they sell wine spirits to the Royal Family. 卖酒的wine spirits就是烈酒. Yeah. And you can actually go there and you can buy their own wine, their own champagne. It's can be quite reasonable. I looked on their website and you can buy bottles of wine around￡50. Okay. So basically you can just go... it's open to public. Yes, it is. But the higher end of these you're looking at maybe about￡50,000. And Berry Brothers and Rudd is also famous for its scales. Scales, like weigh machine?Yeah. That's because in the 18th and 19th century, originally they used to sell coffee and they had scales and when he stopped selling coffee, they kept the scales and essentially it became one of the only places in London where you could weigh yourself. They're everywhere in China. I know, but we're talking about 18th, 19th century. So noblemen, politicians, and even royalty they would go to the shop to weigh themselves. In public? Well, there was normally a private room where they can weigh themselves. 体重秤在那个地方。And they actually sometimes show the books where they write down the weight of these famous people from history. Ok. Why?Well, it was a way of tracking to see whether or not they gained weight or lost weight. So weird for a wine and spirit shop to do that.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone and welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope. 欢迎回来【闲话英伦】. Hi 安澜. Hi, lulu, hi everyone. So What are we gonna talk about today?Today I thought I would choose a topic that you would be interested in. What is that. Shopping in London.How dare you, are you gender stereotype me? You think because I'm a girl so I love shopping?No, I think you love shopping because I've seen the amount of random rubbish you buy on Taobao. Touche, fair enough. Ok, let's talk about shopping in London. 我们来说说伦敦购物. Exciting topic, there's so many places to shop in London.Absolutely. And Today we're going to be talking about some of the unique shops in London. But first of all, I think it's important that we get the areas right.So the first area we're gonna talk about is Oxford street and Regent street. Oxford street就是牛津街. Regent street是摄政街. Regent street I'm quite familiar with. Oxford street honestly, I obviously know I've been there, but I don't usually go shopping there. No. Oxford street is the busiest street in Europe and it was the center of the shopping area in London. Has it always been like a shopping area in history?No, originally it was the road to the public execution grounds.Okay, public execution就是公开处死刑的那个地方, 就相当于一个刑场了. That was the road to the public execution grounds. Absolutely. Back in the days people went there to just watch it almost like a show. And I think basically what happened was then a lot of shops started to open up along the way because public executions always draw a crowd. Yeah, like I said it's almost like a performance. So these shops opened started selling snacks I guess while people are waiting between the executions. And then they started selling clothes and the rest is history. It's a bit morbid. Yeah, I wouldn't go to any secondhand clothes shop on Oxford street then. Well, you won't find any secondhand. No, that's right. Because the whole secondhand就像什么二手店那种古着店都是在另外一个地方一个区域. Oxford street, it's filled with like big brands and also fast fashion that sort of thing .Pretty much. So I would say that most of the high street brands they have their main shop on Oxford street.

"欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Rage Cleaning. Rage means anger. 这个并没有一个很好的翻译, 所以咱们暂且把它翻译成‘愤怒清洁’或者‘愤怒清扫’. So what does it mean? First of all, let me ask you a question. Nowadays, our lives are filled with stressful situations. I'm sure everyone has had that moment of feeling extremely stressed and you have so much anger inside you. You just need to let it out.Some of us might go for a 5-mile run. Some might indulge in alcohol or start smashing things about. But then there's a group of people who would let out their anger by deep cleaning their house. For instance, a long stressed out day at work leads you to break out the carpet cleaner or a rough day with your kids has you scrubbing the dishes with fury? 我们现在的生活是充满各种各样的压力, 很多时候我们心里憋着一股气, 这股气到底撒在哪儿? 有的人可能会运动, 有的人可能会暴饮暴食, 或者会砸东西. 但是也有这样的一群人, 他们对抗压力的方式就是 rage cleaning, or angry cleaning. Basically this is the act of tackling a cleaning project with the express purpose of releasing pent-up emotion. 具体来说就是通过大扫除来release pent-up emotion or pent-up anger来发泄这种压抑在心里的情绪, 特别是怒气. It sounds like a joke, right? You probably would say who would clean when they're angry, but rage cleaning is real. According to psychology experts, it's a natural reaction that many people experience and is actually kind of healthy, because pushing yourself physically forces you to expel that pent-up energy while focusing on a task instead of dwelling on negative thoughts. 为什么心理学家会认为这种rage cleaning其实是一种还蛮健康的应对压力或者应对愤怒的一个机制, 主要是 pushing yourself physically, 耗尽你的体力去做大扫除的时候, 你就没有时间一直在那dwell on negative thoughts, 一直在那内耗, 一直在那琢磨那些负面的想法, 这可以帮你把心中的一些不满、怒气还有焦虑都发泄出去. It also puts you in a position of control. 同时也能让你重新找到掌控权. Often times anger or stress springs from situations in which we feel helpless. 其实很多时候我们生活中的一些焦虑, 包括愤怒都来源于我们的无助感. For example, you can't shout back at your irresponsible boss or track down the thief who stole your credit card. But what you can do is power through a cleaning project, get it done and experience the satisfaction of having one less chore to do. 比如你工作中的秃头老板, 或者你生活中遇到的种种不满, 你都没有办法真正去掌控, 但是你们家的卫生你是可以掌控的. Clinical psychologists say that people who rage clean are just taking control of what they can. “When we feel disarray in our mental or emotional world, the easiest or most concrete way to counter that is to make our physical world tidy and neat, the way we want our mental world to be. It’s a very natural reaction.” 临床心理学家就认为这是一种再正常不过的反应. 当我们的情感或者说是心理世界出现了各种各样的问题, 特别是当我们感觉我们的心理和情感世界乱七八糟的时候, 千头万绪, 这个时候我们掌控不了自己的心理和情感世界, 我们起码可以让自己的physical world, 也就是我们实际的身边的世界, 具象的世界, 身边的环境能够变得更加tidy and neat能够整洁美观. 这其实是我们希望能够理清自己思绪, 搞清楚自己精神世界的一种外向化的表现. You have such an intense sensation that feels like it needs to be released and you don't want to do it on a person. But you can do it on an object. 特别是我们心里有这种压下来的邪火, 或者那种很强烈的负面的情感的时候, 我们又不想把这种情绪发泄给身边的我们在乎的家人、爱人. 因此有些人就会选择把这些情绪发泄到物件上, 比如说家务事上. Cleaning is actually a great way to channel that because it is focused. You can take that negative energy and displace it onto something inanimate. It also allows you to take a break from whatever it is that triggered you. Now when you come back to whatever triggered you, you can come back to it more grounded and use more parts of yourself to tackle that issue. 比如工作上或者情感上遇到一个特别大的烦心事儿, 这个时候你越想越生气, 越想越窝火, 这个时候索性不去想了, 来一次彻头彻尾的大扫除, 等你耗尽了自己的体力, 再回到困扰你的这些问题的时候, 你的脑子会更清醒, 也能做出更加理智的判断. Taking a negative emotion and turning it into something else is actually a psychological coping mechanism. 其实心理学上还有一个专门的说法, there is a psychoanalytic term that applies to this kind of coping mechanism called sublimation, 叫sublimation, 升华.

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to your favorite segment Sound of Musicals. 欢迎回来【曲外之音】. Hi, Oliver. Hello again. So, we're gonna continue with our talk about Mary Poppins, the quintessential English nanny. Of course, very British. So, we've already walked you through the storyline. It's pretty simple, it's defensible, fantastical nanny dropped out of the sky, and then just changed the whole household and mate, I think gave the mom and dad some wake-up call, like what is most important thing in life. Yeah, definitely the kids are kind of they've got absent parents, and they don't like the nannies that they keep being given, because they're too strict; or they don't get there the attention from the parents that they want, but Mary Poppins comes in and just changes everything. I like the words you use, they're not bad parents, they're not abusive or anything. They're just absent. Yeah, they care about their children, because they're taking the time to find a good nanny who will raise them correctly. Mr. Banks takes the children to the bank to show where he works. They focus on the wrong things, certainly, at the beginning of the movie. One thing I have noticed since you're talking about Mr. Banks, because apart from Mary Poppins, obviously, and Mary Poppins’ friend all being very colorful, but Mr. Banks seems to be this really grey dud in the film, in the whole storyline, very isolated. He does seem that way, yes. Mary Poppins and the children are sort of one side of it. His wife is part of the suffragette movement on the other. And then there's Mr. Banks in the middle at the bank. So. Yeah.And I think it's almost like he's hypnotized or brainwashed himself to feel like “look, bank is everything, this bank job is everything. And through discipline and efficiency, we somehow would find salvation and I have to run my family like the bank with discipline and efficiency.”Yeah, that's why he keeps hiring these strict nannies who don't really understand what the children need. Mr. Banks is just trying to run everything properly for the most efficient outcome. In a way, although children seem to be in the center stage like they seem to be the one who needed looking after, but Mary Poppins was not just inspiring the kids but also inspiring Mr. Banks. Yeah, definitely. When Mr. Banks loses his job at the end of the movie or musical, and he takes the time to fly a kite with his children, and realizes what is important in his life. Only then does Mary Poppins decide it's time to leave. So the kids have been happy through the whole movie, but Mr. Banks when he gets happy, that's when she goes. Okay, now I’ve got it. Father, children, everyone's together, time to go. Yeah, you mentioned happy, right? So I think underneath all of these song and dance, these magical scenarios, there is a deeper topic about what true happiness is. And are we losing sight of what is really important on our way to pursue so called happiness？For example, when we are trying to chase after money, material gains, promotion, are we losing sight of what is truly important？Yeah, certainly. Mr. Banks and the other people in the bank, when Mary Poppins... when Mr. Banks takes his children to the bank to see where he works. There's a whole song about Michael has a little bit of money. There's a whole song about give us your money. We'll look after it, everything will be great, you'll be happy. And Michael's like no, I want my money. I don't want to put it in a bank. I want it. So, it's kind of showing the alternate happiness in a way, the difference between the childish happiness of I’ve got a little bit of money now which is fantastic. I can do something. To adult happiness of put it in a bank and watch numbers go higher, but don't use it. But that is not even...you said adult happiness, but that's not even real happiness. That's probably just as you're growing up, you've been sort of brainwashed

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to your favorite segment Sound of Musicals. 欢迎回来, 你们最喜欢的【曲外之音】. Hi, Oliver. Hello again.So last time we talked about The Sound of Music, 【音乐之声】. And today can I also propose another also feel-good happy musical?That sounds good to me. Yeah.So you remember in The Sound of Music, we talked about the main character Maria was a governess是一个家庭教师, but you know you said governess is kind of like a tutor and a nanny. But if I say to you the quintessential English nanny, who do you think of?I think we might be talking about Mary Poppins.Yes. Mary Poppins.Yes.Now Mary Poppins, this character is so well known and so popular. I think sometimes it also is used almost as a synonym as something British, when Americans make jokes and is like “you're such a Mary Poppins.” It's like you're so English. I've never heard that one before, but definitely Mary Poppins is very well known for kind of the British nurse and the English nurse of the time. And in this, I think it's again, it is a musical, but it's also a musical film. And in this one, unlike The Sound of Music where the musical was first and then the musical film, Mary Poppins is actually musical film first. And then much much later they made a musical like on stage musical. Ah. Did they? I didn't know that. Yeah. The musical film, I think most people probably just remember the Disney version of the musical film made in 1964. But the West End production of the actual Mary Poppins musical was not until 2004. Wow, so much later. Yeah. It's again, based on a book, based on a series of books, and you know, these two, there's something in common between Mary Poppins and The Sound of Music.Is there?Think about the main character, the main star of the film. Oh yes. It's Julie Andrews. She plays Maria and Mary Poppins.Yes. Oh. Yeah.So basically she won an Oscar for one of them and she won Golden Globe for the other. She won all the awards. Haha.Yeah. For these two Julie Andrews is amazing, like amazing musical actress. This actress, in general, she sings, she has such a beautiful voice. She does definitely. I talked us through The Sound of Music last time. Would you like to talk us through Mary Poppins now? Sure. And actually, before we get into the storyline, which is not complex at all, do you know that Mary Poppins, the translation, the translated name in Chinese, it has nothing to do with Mary Poppins. It's actually called欢乐满人间, which is a direct translation of like the world is filled with joy and laughter. I like that name. That's a very good title, hahaha. What a great translation. It's got joy and laughter in the title.Yeah.Ok. So the reason why in a lot of the American film or movie reference, this is seen as quintessentially English is because this film the story is set in London in 1910. So there's this family, Banks, Mr. and Mrs. Banks. So Mr. Banks actually works in a bank in finance a bit on the nose. Yeah, very much. Yeah. And like this Sound of Music, von Trapp, Mr. Banks is also very much, I would say, without any joy, very much hapless, very much focused on discipline, and it's basically a workaholic. And so Mr. And Mrs. Banks they come home to discover that their children's nanny has quit once again after the children Michael and Jane run away to find their missing kite. They have two kids, not seven. But these two kids, they're also not really unruly, but they just didn't really like the fact that they didn't really like these old timey, traditional nannies who are just all about discipline and no fun. So basically now Mr. Banks needed to find another nanny. While Mr. Banks wants a strict, no nonsense nanny, who can just basically teaches the kids discipline controls the kid. The children ask for like a kind sympathetic nice nanny.

Buzzmix-Ep146-Tradwife欢迎来到英文小酒馆的迷你双语板块【Buzzword Mix】-新词特饮，短短几分钟，让不同段位的你掌握最新最地道的英文谈资！可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】或者添加【luluxjg2】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Buzzword Mix. In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Tradwife. Trad, t-r-a-d, which stands for traditional. 我会把它翻译成 “传统娇妻”. 如果你关注海外的社交媒体, 可能会在比如像TikTok这样的社媒上面看到了这样的一个越来越火的话题标签 #tradwife, the shares and videos with this #tradwife often show a curated look at women embracing domesticity. 与社媒上很多大女主独立女性的标签正好相反, 这些tradwife的标签通常展现的都是一些女性, 特别是年轻女性去embrace domesticity, domestic life, 展现出来这些女性自愿地回归到家庭, 去拥抱家庭生活; 不管是在她们的穿着打扮, 她们的理念以及她们传达的信息, 都在显示她们自愿, 并且非常享受这种traditional wife或traditional housewife的生活方式. So a tradwife in recent western culture typically depicts a woman who believes in and practices traditional sex roles and marriages. 所以在现在的西方社会里面, 一个tradwife是被定义成拥护并且践行比较传统父权制度之下的这样的性别角色以及婚姻形态. To put it in simpler terms, tradwife lifestyle is usually married in a straight relationship. 通常这样的tradwife, 他们的生活方式都是在一个异性恋的婚姻里面已婚的状态. The man works, the wife does not, 男人在外面挣钱, 女人在家里照顾家庭没有工作. The man is the head of the household and the final word on all things, financial, lifestyle and professional for the family. 男人是绝对的一家之主, 并且对于像家庭经济生活方式等等方面都有绝对的话语权. Kids are a part of the plan if not already in the family. 绝对不会是丁克, 即使现在没孩子, 在将来也一定会有要孩子的计划. So basically being a tradwife, you assume the traditional housewife or stay-at-home mother role and you do all of the household chores like cooking, cleaning, laundry, so on and so forth. Additionally, special attention is paid to the importance of raising children. 其实就是传统居家的这种家庭主妇, 全职太太, 甚至在英文里, 即使不是stay-at-home mom, 全职太太, 全职妈妈, 还有一个词叫做stay-at-home girlfriend, 全职女友, 也经常会跟tradwife一起被提及.