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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.

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 酒馆. Hi安澜.Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone.And also, the NHS workers they don't really get paid that well. I get the sense that, you know, even Adam does not really get paid that well let alone the more junior doctor like Shruti.No. this is the whole ridiculous thing is that junior doctors sometimes they are actually paid more if they worked in a fast-food restaurant than as a doctor, but now I wouldn't say it's getting better.But in recent years there have been so many strikes, even consultants have gone on strike. I read in the news today that I think they've made a pay deal now, but ultimately, this is the one strike that people generally support, because I would say in the UK among the vast majority of the population, we have a lot of respect for NHS workers. We may complain about the system. We may complain about the politicians. But we don't really complain that much about the doctors or nurses.我从跟英国人的交谈里面, 我也感受得很明显, 大家只要谈到 NHS他们公立医疗体系里面的医护人员, 大家都会觉得非常尊重.During Covid times, there was like clapping for NHS workers, right？Yeah.就是说为他们鼓掌, 还有给他们带什么吃的放的什么他们的车上这种,觉得他们都是这个英雄白衣天使, but they generally have a lot of things to complain about the system.Yeah.Although probably you guys all know that currently there's no better alternative.No one would ever say, let's get rid of the NHS, nobody would actually turn out and say “okay, we need to go back to medical care that you have to pay money for.”Well, exactly. Because to be honest to get rid of your NHS is getting rid of the concept of welfare state essentially.Yeah.就是整个福利国家的,你就全部都会要取消掉.Yeah.I don't know if you guys remember that what we talked about. So in the UK this is what happens. There's basically dual track. So you have the NHS which is for everyone which is free for everyone, even for people who, for example, even when I lived in the UK although I did not have permanent residency, I was not a citizen, a national. However, because I lived there for long enough period, I also had access to NHS.Yeah.So that is one.The other one is the private health care, is the private hospitals who charges you ￡200 for 115 minutes consultation.Quite a few people have private medical care in the UK, you can get private medical insurance and some NHS doctors they do also work in the private sphere so that they can basically get more money.This is completely normal, right? And it's allowed?It’s allowed and it is completely normal. So some people they do go for private medical care, but private medical care can only go so far.So for example, for very complex procedures, you still more likely go to the NHS.

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 酒馆. Hi安澜.Hi, Lulu. Hi, everyone.You noticed that I didn't say welcome back to Britain Under the Microscope?Yeah. I did notice that, it was a bit strange.Because today we are actually going to do TV picks.Oh. Goody.Yeah. Just wait for it. It's not a fun TV.Oh.Yeah, in fact, it's a really, really, really depressing TV show.What is it about you and choosing really depressing TV shows for us to talk about?Well. It is a British TV show.Okay.Most of your TV shows can get really depressing.所以今天是一个特别的【荐剧板块】, 我相信, 这个英剧安澜也看过, 因为我原来跟他讨论过。And the name of this TV show this TV series is “This is Going to Hurt”.Yes, I have seen that before. So it is a comedy, but it's also a tragedy, and it's also a drama as well.嗯嗯, 这个中文译名叫做《疼痛难免》。其实我在星期四星期五直播间,就是【看剧解梗】这个环节分享过一集, although it's a really depressing TV show, but I think it's a really good one and the stories behind it and then the issues that it talks about, I thought it's worth a couple of episodes for us to talk about.Yeah, absolutely. So in our previous episodes, we have talked a bit about the NHS, but we haven't really talked about the NHS now, like some of the pressures that doctors go through. And this is essentially the main theme of this TV show.So previously we gave you guys an introduction like a brief introduction of the British medical system, health care system called NHS.英国的一个医疗体系叫National Health Services or Service？Service.Service.就是大家都听过英国的公费医疗就是全民免费医疗,对吧？It sounds like dream come true, sounds great on paper. It sounds great in theory.But in fact, there are so many problems. There are so many challenges as you can imagine.Yes. So I won't go too much into the NHS, because we have discussed it before, but it's important to note that the NHS was founded on the principle that healthcare is free. And you can see a doctor, you can get medical treatment quickly, efficiently, and most importantly, completely free of charge.Just remind me again, it is completely free.In the UK, it is more or less completely free, prescriptions you need to pay, I think it's around ￡7, but it could have been increased.Like a nominal charge.

酒馆4/29号有一场试听体验课，可以添加【luluxjg】咨询课程or加入社群，查看文稿和其他精彩内容哦~ It's very difficult for me to imagine even though that I’ve lived in the UK and talked to many British people but still, because for me I come from a completely different background, I would have to say, sometimes in China you hear these debate, we're not like an immigration country or immigrant country, but still with when there are more people pouring in from other countries, but I know it's a sensitive topic, but you do hear people say like voicing their concerns about what this will do to, for example, your own belief system, your values, your culture, I know in China they are really nominal number, minimal realistic numbers, but there's still that concern. I'm just wondering if British people are ever concerned about not losing something that's intrinsically British or English. I would say, yes, there is that concern, particularly if some people feel that the value system or the beliefs of immigrants clashes with what we consider as British values. But the problem is that we can't really define what so called British values actually are. If you ask me as a British person what would be considered British, I wouldn't be able to tell you. So it's not based on race or ethnicity. It's not based on race or ethnicity. I would say to a certain extent it's based more on belief and values. This might be the major difference between China and the UK because for us it’s a lot about blood about ethnicity. Yeah, in the UK I would say it's a lot less about that, for some people it is, and even though I don't quite understand because what it means to be British is such a fluid concept. It's always changing. I do not think anyone could really define what it is to be British. Yeah, but you are perhaps very liberal minded in this. Probably I am. The other thing that I think of many people even if we put the whole cultural identity, 把这个文化圈认同先放一边, just realistically or pragmatically, I think many voters in the UK they were worried about over stretching or over stretched public services, like health services, housing, etc. Yeah. Exactly. That was the main concern that immigrants had to overstretch public services and housing. Now to be honest for me, I don't quite agree with that, because housing is a problem in the UK no matter what, it's always been a problem in the UK; and public services, most of our public services rely on immigrants. That is true, because you just have to take one look at NHS workers, a lot of immigrants. Yeah. And the thing it's only around 15% of the UK population who are foreign born. I love the fact that you say only around 15% because for us this is an unthinkable number. There are some cities in the world where it goes up to about 60%. Wow. 60%. Then who are the locals, who are the immigrants？And that's the whole thing. I don't think it really matters because most immigrants work hard, they pay their taxes. So why can't they live in the UK, why can't they just live their lives? They don't break the law, they just live their lives as honest citizens. Yeah. I mean I have to admit although I consider myself quite liberal minded, but when it comes to immigration I do have my own Like concerns about, for example, if you think in the future, the whole trend is going to be we're all blended together, but then we will have to rethink about our cultural identity. What defines us? Would there still be the idea of cultural identity?To be honest that I don't quite agree with that because ultimately, humans will always try to seek some form of cultural identity. It's just the cultural identity, the values, the belief, what is considered the culture changes. All right. So far we've actually had a lot of talks, debates, but now let's look at the pragmatics. So now how easy it is to immigrate to the UK just out of curiosity .From this Spring, the government have made it harder. Immigrants will have to earn￡37,800 to get a skilled visitor visa.

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~ In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Pink Tax. The phrase itself is very easy to understand. Pink is a color and tax is, well t-a-x. But there is a lot to be said about this concept. So let's dive into it. First of all, let's look at the definition. What is Pink Tax? 首先我们来看看什么是所谓的粉红税. Pink tax is a markup on goods and services marketed to women and for which men pay less for similar products and services. 所谓的粉红税指的就是goods and services marketed to women. 营销给女性消费者的这些货品和服务上面的一个markup, a pricing markup or a markup in pricing, simply means higher price. 在讲到价钱的时候, markup就是一个价格加成也就是加价. For instance, if you buy a cola in a restaurant, it's probably going to be a lot more expensive than in a supermarket. That is because restaurants have a markup on the drinks they serve. 比如说在餐厅里点酒水肯定比在超市买要贵不少, 这就是一个price markup. So pink tax is a markup on goods and services marketed to women. 所以粉红税它指的就是针对女性营销的产品和服务, 与卖给男性的类似的产品和服务相比较, 会有一个明显的markup, 加价. This phenomenon is often attributed to gender-based price discrimination.Gender-based price discrimination也就是基于性别的价格歧视. The reason why we call it pink tax is not really about stereotyping women. It simply is from the observation that many of the affected products are pink.而为什么叫它粉红税? 不知道大家有没有注意到, 比如说同样一个品牌同样都是卖洗发水, 卖给男士的, 通常是蓝色的瓶子; 卖给女士的, 通常都是粉红色的瓶子. This is the word pink tax comes from. Now in 2015, the issue got a lot of attention when New York City's department of consumer affairs found many instances of gendered pricing when it examined 794 products sold in the city for consumers of all ages. 粉红税这个事情并不是一个特别新的概念, 在2015年纽约的消费者事务部门就通过对市面上794种产品的观察, 发现了有这样的一个概念叫做gendered pricing, 也就是男女有别的定价. However, researchers have been noticing and analyzing this phenomenon since at least the 1990s. 这个事情再往前倒, 在上世纪90年代末期就已经有人提出来并且观察到了. Although we call it pink tax, it's not really a tax, it's just a price markup. So when a company sells a pink product, the female version for more than a blue product, the male version, the additional revenue from the pink product does not go to the government as tax. 为什么说它其实不是税, 就是它多收了女性产品跟粉红色产品的这些钱, 并不会作为税收上交. The only part that benefits from the pink tax are the companies that charge women more than men. These gender based price disparities are prevalent in several sectors and can be seen in many day to day products. But one of the most visible is personal care products. 这种gender-based price disparities基于性别的价格差异, 在很多的日常产品里都能见到, 但是最明显的是在 personal care products, 也就是个护产品. These include, for example, soaps, lotions, razor blades, shampoos, and deodorants.In the United States, one government study analyzed 800 gender specific products from nearly 100 brands. The report found that on average, personal care products marketed to women were 13% more expensive than similar men's products. Accessories and adult clothing were 7% and 8% more expensive respectively.

4/29，英文小酒馆直播体验课等你来上麦。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. 安澜, can I propose a topic？Yeah. Of course.The other day, some students and I when we were talking about international cities or like cosmopolitan cities, what makes a city truly cosmopolitan, and to me it just feels like it's not so much all the city has many foreigners, but more like when you look at people living in a city, you don't really know who are the foreigners, don't really know who are the locals. I completely agree. I think if you still look around and say those are foreigners, then it's not really an international city. An international city is a city where people from all across the world will actually make it their home. Yeah.And London, to some extent, gives me that vibes. So I thought let's talk about immigration, Very complicated subject. I know, it's very heavy as well. So maybe let's just start with some light discussions and gradually get into the heavy bits. I think it's not gonna take too long to get into the heavy side because if you read British newspapers or if you see the news in the UK, there is so much talk about immigration. And it’s such a controversial topic, very controversial. 很有争议的那种话题. 安澜听过中文里说哪个国家是移民国家这个说法. Yeah.So UK has a very long history of immigration, right？He does. For example, if you look at our Royal Family, our Royal Family originally comes from Germany. Oh Yes. There are often historical comedies about that fact. ExactlyThey didn't even speak English. And the thing is that London in particular has always attracted immigrants, and you can see this in lot the port cities as well, like Liverpool. There's always been immigrants. So the idea of someone being like completely British, I never really quite believe that because you have to think that the UK and particularly England is not very far away from Europe, it’s an island, but the distance between France and England is not that far. Yeah, I think and also you keep hearing things like a second generation, third generation 第二代, 第三代移民, usually by third generation they just completely become local. Well even by second generation normally, and sometimes even by first generation. So I think it's important to define exactly when immigration increased dramatically and that was after the World War II. You know you call those waves like immigration waves. So the wave was after the World War II?After the war, after the bombing and after obviously black soldiers and lots of people died, there was a need for skilled and unskilled labor to rebuild after the war. And back then, UK had an Empire and they encouraged people from across what was then the Empire to come to the UK and this included probably one of the most famous incidents of immigration in British history and that was the Windrush. Windrush, was that the name of a ship?

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 favourite segment Sound Of Musicals. 欢迎回来【曲外之音】 . Hi Oliver.Hello. So we are going to continue our discussion about The Sound Of Music, 【音乐之声】. Yes. We're moving on to themes and music today, I believe. Last time you walked us through the storyline, it's pretty simple, right? But there are many themes that were mentioned or discussed or shown in this musical. No, I think the main point of the musical is, as we talked about last time, it's kind of a feel good movie with some quite serious background to it. But in the end, it's a few themes which are worth talking about. First of all, obviously pretty clear it's family and love. Definitely so. Yeah .the whole musical is based around this family, the kids and the father are kind of estranged and separated until Maria comes in, wins the kids then wins the captain, everybody falls in love, and then they run away together into the mountains. It's quite a nice theme through the movie. Yeah. If you think about it, I think Maria, the novice nun, single handedly changed the family dynamics, before it wasn't so much as a family but more like a little army in training, trained by the dad. It definitely was, yeah he being a naval officer who's recently come back home, I think he doesn't really know how to raise his own children. Exactly. He's gone through many many governess and has told the governess says here's the whistle when you need them, blow the whistle this way for child number one, this way for number two, and Maria just refuses to it. I think she says their children, they're not dogs or something like that, and she just says no straight away. On yes. I remember that bit. It's like when captain von Trapp, I think when they first met, it's like just whistle when... to signal for each kid to come out. And then when I need you, this is the whistle you're gonna hear. And Maria just basically says I... just protested straight away and say, no, I'm not a dog. I'm not gonna answer to whistle. And then he said just follow my lead, follow my order. And then so Maria says, so captain, what is your whistle? That's it. Yes. And he gets very, very upset by that question. Yeah, but I mean it's quite common in sort of like military families. I don't know if it's the same in other cultures but in China definitely . I feel like I mean I've got no real experience myself, but certainly in movies, TV shows, it does feel like the military father or military mother is always kind of bringing work home in a way and kind of raising their children as they treat the other soldiers they work with. So yeah. I think this is quite a common thing which the musical has picked up on. Yeah. And what Maria is bringing tenderness, laughter and just joy into the family. Yeah. She's breaking through these the restrictions on the rules that captain von Trapp has put in place for an organized and well behaved family and she just has fun with them and lets them have fun and teaches them how to sing as well.

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~ We went out again into the frosty air. “Now for Mr. Breckinridge,” Holmes said as he buttoned his coat. We zigzagged through the back streets. Soon we were in the Covent Garden market. We saw the name Breckinridge on one of the largest stalls. The owner had a long, sharp face. He and a small boy were just closing up. “Good evening. It’s a cold night,” said Holmes. “You are sold out of geese, I see.” “I can let you have five hundred geese in the morning,” the man replied. “That won’t do,” said Holmes. “I want the same kind of geese you sold to the Alpha Inn. They were fine birds. Where did you get them?” To my surprise, the question made Breckinridge angry. “Now then, mister,” he said. “What is all this about? I haven’t heard anything else all day. ‘Where did you get all the geese? Who did you sell the geese to?’ You would think they were the only geese in the world. People are making such a fuss about them.” “Well, I have nothing to do with the others who have been asking,” Holmes said. He sounded as if he did not care very much about it. “You won’t tell us. So we’ll have to cancel the bet. You see, I’ve bet five pounds those Alpha Inn geese were raised in the country.” “Then you will lose,” said Breckinridge. “Those geese were raised here in town.” “You’ll never make me believe that.” “Will you bet, then?” Breckinridge asked. “That would just be stealing your money,” answered Holmes. “But I’ll take you on.” Breckinridge laughed. He called the small boy to his side. “Bring me the books, Bill,” said he. “Now, then, Mr. Know-It-All,” he went on. “You see this little book? This is the list of folks from whom I buy. The numbers tell where to find them in the big book. See this page? It’s in black ink. Those are my country goose-raisers. See this list in red? Those are my town people. Now, look at that third name. Just read it to me.” Holmes read. “Mrs. Oakshott, 117 Brixton Road. Number 249.” “Quite so. Now look up that number in this big book.” Holmes turned a page. “Here you are. Mrs. Oakshott, 117 Brixton Road. Eggs and Birds.” “Now,” said Breckinridge. “What is the last thing it says there? ‘December twenty-second. Twenty-four geese. At seven and a half shillings. Sold to the Alpha Inn at twelve shillings.’ “Well? What do you say now?” Breckinridge asked.

Hi everyone, and welcome back to your favorite segment Sound of Musicals. 欢迎回来你们最喜欢的板块【曲外之音】. Hi, Oliver. Hello. Good to be back. Hello, hello. It has been a while. It has, hasn't it, yeah. Very busy recently, I'm afraid.Yeah. Same here. But I can't wait for us to dive, re-dive back into the sea of musicals or musical movies. I know, I've been looking forward to this all week. So which musical movie do you want to dive into today? I give you a hint. This is an oldy but a goody. So, Doe, a deer, a female deer.Ray, a drop of golden sun. I know, I know, I've got it. It’s a good one, it is a good one, The Sound Of Music, classic. The Sound Of Music, 音乐之声。其实我们这个板块叫做Sound Of Musicals, it's also a play on Sound Of Music. Yes. It is where this name comes from.Yeah. So first of all, The Sound Of Music, I'm pretty sure The Sound Of Music is one of those musicals or musical movies that most Chinese audience are quite familiar with. So is it the same in English speaking world The Sound Of Music? Is it something that everyone knows? I think it is very, very well known. Certainly, it's one of the most well known and popular musicals in many places, many countries. Definitely. So I know I grew up with my family, my grandfather specifically watched it every year at Christmas. That's how I was kind of introduced to not just The Sound Of Music, but musicals in general, it was kind of my first experience of them. It does feel like one of those Christmassy or just festive movies to watch, right? It does, and I'm not entirely sure I could tell you why. But for me, it's a Christmas musical because my grandfather watched it at Christmas. And again, I'm not sure why, because I don't think there's anything really about Christmas in it at all.No. No. But I think it's just like happy ending, everyone everything worked out in the end. That sort of, like warm fuzzy type of thing.It’s, yeah. It's got some serious moments, but overall it is quite a feel good film, isn't it? Emm. So let's start with the background, we were talking about musical movies, so which came first remind me, was it the musical or was it the Disney film?Actually. It was a book, it was neither. The first idea of The Sound Of Music, it comes from the memoirs of Maria von Trapp. So the Maria from the musical was a real person. Oh, I did not know that.And it's from her memoirs. So she wrote down her experiences of living with the von Trapp family and becoming part of the von Trapp family in Austria during the1930s. From there it became a musical on Broadway in 1959, is when it premiered on Broadway. And then after that, it became the Disney film that we know today that most people know today. I see. I never really knew it was based on real life memoir. I thought it was just one of those stories that were just created for the sake of it really. I know. I was exactly the same when I found this, when I was looking into interesting things to say today. I was quite surprised to find that it was a real thing.Okay. So let's get into the story itself. I'm pretty sure a lot of our audience knew the story, but maybe you need a little bit of refreshing, but before you start, von Trapp, this von, v-o-n that sounds aristocratic and German.It is, yes. Certainly Germany and Austria and a lot of those kind of central European countries. They have a lot of the nobility, the aristocrats, they often have ‘von’ in their name. Unfortunately. I'm don't really speak much German, so I'm not entirely sure what von means. I need to do my research there. Von means from, I think it's from, so it's basically you kind of own the... like your family, probably like own the land. That's why you're like from that place or of that place. Okay, I see. Yeah. So that's the aristocratic noble side of it. I see, okay. Yeah, and also you said it was set in the 1930s, so that was the beginning of the whole Nazi thing, right?

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~ Welcome back to Geek Time, advanced. This is Brad. How's it going? Lulu? Hi, Brad. It's going.All right. So I thought we'd get back into talking about liminal spaces.Woo, spooky. Yeah. Now what really started liminal spaces as being part of today's like vernacular things people talk about, it’s something that happened on Reddit. There's whole discussion boards for people to post pictures that evoke this feeling of liminality. Hang on a minute.Yeah.This for those of you who don't really know Reddit. Reddit有点像国内比如说百度贴吧这样的一个存在, 或者更早, 还有什么天涯, 基本上这样的一个存在. It's basically discussion boards, right? Reddit.Right.Community discussions. Yeah. So you mean people are posting pictures that trigger or evoke this liminality feeling, so these eerie pictures?Yeah, but at first people were just posting interesting pictures that they would see. And then people started talking about, oh I think I've been there before that I kind of have Deja Vu. And so the whole feeling of liminality started like showing up. And then people started thinking “I think I was there when I was a kid” that's possible because when buildings are created, they're often built with similar techniques or similar paints and things like that. So you see one building from your childhood, then you see another one maybe from across the country. It could possibly be very similar “oh, I think I've been there, but I've never been to that city before”. So it started off as being quite nice. It started off as some sort of nostalgia, but then it just turned eerie. Like some people started seeing pictures and they just see it and they can't really place it and they don't really understand where it came from. And so people just start getting really weird feelings and it's, it can be something similar to like that whole idea of the uncanny valley. When you see something just like really makes me uncomfortable when I see this. I don't know why.Yeah. Uncanny valley, I think we have talked about this before就是恐怖谷效应. It's like when a doll or like a machine looks really...or a robot looks really, very very similar to a human, but you know it's not a human. Then that gives you that uncanny valley sensations, same as places, I think, with liminal spaces. It looks like the place that you have been, it gives you the sense of Deja Vu, but you know it's not.For sure, it's like sometimes when people see pictures, it gives you that nostalgia feeling. But when you see a photo and you think I've been there but I can't place it. I don't know why I have this feeling like I've been there. Something in your brain gets triggered and it gives you not a good feeling, gives you a bad feeling. Yeah. If we talk about that, we cannot not talk about the Back Rooms. Yeah. One of the first pictures that the kind of like sparked off the whole liminality debate or discussion was the Back Rooms.Back Rooms是叫后室, 就是办公室的那个室, 后室Back Rooms. It's a game, isn't it? Originally, it just started off as a picture and then became a video. Someone posted a video connected to this whole idea of the back rooms. And then it turned into a game. But, yeah, so first it was just a picture and someone you start to say, I think I've been there, and then like I had a dream about this place, and in the dream, it was just a place that would go on forever and ever, no matter what they did, they couldn't find an exit and things were following them. And then there was a video posted on line. This is a very strange word, but it's called a no clip.A no clip?A no clip is when you hit something in the world and merging with that makes you go into another dimension or into another place. The whole idea came from video games when your figure in the game went through a wall where it shouldn't actually go through the wall, and then it ends up in a place where it's not supposed to be. (no clip无碰撞模式：一种在计算机游戏中的“作弊模式”，允许玩家穿过墙壁、地形和其他物体，不受碰撞检测的限制。)就不可能的空间. And that's back rooms.

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~ It was the second morning after Christmas. I visited my friend Sherlock Holmes to give him my good wishes for the holiday season. I found the great detective lying on the sofa. He was smoking his favorite pipe. Next to the sofa stood a chair. On the chair’s back, there was a black hat. The hat was dirty and torn. A magnifying glass lay on the seat of the chair. Holmes had been looking at the hat. “You know Peterson, the doorman?” asked Holmes. “Yes,” said I. “He found this hat. He brought it here this morning—along with a good, fat goose. Right now the goose is cooking over Peterson’s fire.”I looked rather confused and Holmes continued to explain. “It is a strange story. It was four o’clock on Christmas morning. Peterson was walking home late. He had been at a little party. Peterson could see a man walking ahead of him. He was a tall man carrying a white goose over his shoulder.“The tall man got to the corner of Goodge Street. Just then a gang of hooligans came into the street. One of the young men knocked off the tall man’s hat. The tall man tried to fight back with his stick. Instead, he broke the window behind him. “Peterson rushed up to help the tall stranger. But at the sound of the breaking glass, the man dropped the goose and ran. He must have been afraid that Peterson was a policeman who would arrest him for breaking the glass. The gang ran away too. So Peterson was left with the goose—and this hat.”“Which, surely, he gave back to the owner?” asked I. “My dear fellow. There lies the problem. True, we know the NAME of the owner. See? Here’s a small card that was tied to the left leg of the goose. The card says, ‘For Mrs. Henry Baker.’ Then, here are the letters ‘H. B.’ inside the hat. So we’re pretty sure the tall man was Henry Baker. But there are thousands of people named Baker in London. And HUNDREDS of them must be named Henry. “Well, Peterson brought the hat to me. He kept the goose as long as he could. But today it had to be cooked or it would spoil. So Peterson took the goose home. He left the hat for me.” At that moment the door flew open. Peterson, the doorman, rushed into the room. His face was red. “The goose, Mr. Holmes! The goose, sir!” he gasped. “What about it?” asked Holmes. “See here, sir! See what my wife found inside!” He held out his hand. There lay a shining blue stone. It was no bigger than a bean in size. But it was so pure and bright that it twinkled like a star. Sherlock Holmes sat up. “My goodness, Peterson!” said he. “This is a treasure indeed. I suppose you know what you have there?” “Not the Countess of Morcar’s Blue Carbuncle!” I broke in. “Indeed,” Holmes replied. “I ought to know this stone’s size and shape. Haven’t I been reading about it in The Times every single day? The countess says she will give whoever finds it a thousand pounds.”“That’s right,” said Holmes. “It was on December twenty-second—just five days ago. The police have arrested a plumber named John Horner. I have the story here, I think.” He found the page he was looking for. He read the news story out loud. JEWEL ROBBERY AT HOTEL COSMOPOLITAN John Horner, a plumber, was arrested today. The police say he stole a jewel from the jewel case of the Countess of Morcar. The jewel is known as the Blue Carbuncle. Horner was arrested because of a story told by James Ryder. Ryder works for the hotel. Ryder said that he took Horner to the Countess of Morcar’s room to fix a pipe. That was on the very day of the robbery. Ryder stayed in the room for a while. But he was called away. Horner was left in the room alone. When Ryder got back, Horner was nowhere around. But the dresser had been forced open. A jewel box was lying on the dressing table. The box was empty. The police say that Horner put up a fight when he was arrested. “I didn’t do it!” Horner had cried. But Horner had once served time for

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 Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad. Hey, lulu.So today I thought we can talk about something spooky.Like supernatural, ghost, vampires?No, actually spooky, but in a geeky way.All right. What are you thinking? I'm thinking we should talk about liminal space. Woo. That's always a fun topic. Hahahaha. Yeah. I know that you have heard of this.Oh, yeah, definitely. Emm. Liminal space可能对于我们很多听众小伙伴会是一个很陌生的概念, 即使用中文说出来, 你仍然会觉得很陌生。 但是如果你喜欢游戏啊什么的这种之类的, 或者也是一个geek的话, 你应该听过这个中文被翻译成阈限空间, 就是阈值的阈，阈限空间. Liminal spaces, it's actually getting really popular right now. Yeah. You see lots of videos on YouTube about it.Emm. On Chinese social media, well, I mean, within certain geeky circles, very popular. Haha, I think it's very popular on like Bilibili. So Brad give us a definition. What is a liminal space? Basically, it's kind of like, it's an empty space that gives you a feeling that it's abandoned and eerie. You feel like you've been there before, but because it's abandoned, you kind of feel like you shouldn't be there, but when you think about a liminal space, like the whole idea, like liminal, is something that's translated as being the threshold between two places kind of like a doorway.And so when you're kind of like in this transition, when you go from a world where there's lots of people, and then you go into this place where it seems like it's empty and abandoned. It's that whole feeling, it's like “I shouldn't be here. There's something wrong.” You can also think about it like more psychological terms. It's a place where it's a time in your life when you're going through a transition. Transition.Maybe from childhood to adulthood, or just any type of change in your life can be a liminal space.Yeah. Liminal space它有很多的这个含义. 但是，现在大家看到那些有点恐怖游戏里面那种liminal space, 基本上，就是没有人的空间, 比如说 abandoned houses, abandoned hallway, abandoned mall, 然后像Brad刚才说的,这些地方, 虽然没有真正有怪物出现, 但是就会让你感觉下一秒，就这个地方会出现什么样的事情。你会觉得非常诡异, 你会觉得非常的不舒适。I think they've also described liminal space as this space deep in our psyche, it's like the space between consciousness and unconsciousness.Yeah.This is why when you are talking about the place of transition, and like it's a space between two places. This is why it's very unsettling. I think this is the word probably that best used to describe liminal space, it’s very unsettling. Definitely, unsettling or eerie, that kind of feeling. Yeah. So let's talk about everyday liminal spaces, actually they’re everywhere in our life. Yeah. I mentioned a doorway. Oftentimes when people have something on their mind, they walk through a doorway. They forget what they were doing and why they were going into that room. That's kind of just because like your brain goes through this transition when you walk through a doorway, aside from doorways, stairways, hallways, bridges, a house when someone's moved out and there's no one has come back in yet. This is also a liminal space.Like abandoned space as well.Yeah.Like abandoned mall, abandoned hospital. All of these are rich soil for all of these horror films, actually I’m a huge fan of the horror genre. I mean, I've been watching horror films for all these years, like before I never really encountered the word liminal space, but a lot of those unsettling feelings that I got watching these all sorts of horror, a lot of them is because they're linked with liminal space. Even when no monster’s jumping out, it's still like abandoned house. Why do we find abandoned house, abandoned malls? Spooky or eerie. Right? It's the idea of liminal space.Yeah.

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~ In Chinese tradition, Qing Ming is a day for remembrance, a day for us to cherish the memory of our loved ones who passed away, and also to pay tribute to our ancestors. In the past few days, you could see on social media and also in many English-speaking programs, their long list of vocabulary related to Qing Ming, the rituals and the stories about this tradition. But this is not what I'm going to talk about in my show today, because for most of us, Qing Ming is not just about the theoretical knowledge and words on paper. It is connected to a very soft part of your heart. It is a day for remembrance, and especially if you have experienced the loss of loved one. So in my episode today, Lulu is going to share with you some of the sayings in English by people who have also lost someone, and they're trying to cherish their memory. 今天小酒馆里，就着清明我们来说说怀念。 In English, when someone passed away, you usually see the word “in the loving memory of …”, in the loving memory of someone who passed away.Sometimes it's very difficult to forget someone who gives you so much to remember. So let's look at some of these sayings from the famous to the anonymous. But love and emotions in these words are very genuine, all the same. The first saying of the day from the Greek playwright’s, Euripides欧里庇得斯, and he wrote: Come back, even as a shadow, even as a dream, 归来吧，哪怕只是一片影子一个梦境也好，归来吧。 Sometimes we can miss someone so much, but we don't even realize it.This is why in the second saying, it says: Sometimes memories sneak out of my eyes and roll down my cheeks. Sneak out means to secretly get out. So here memories turn into tears. 有时回忆会从眼角偷偷溜出来，滑落我的腮边。 We may not even realize how much we miss someone until we feel the tears.There are so many people in the world. Yet for us, there are only a few that truly matter, this is why saying number three said: Sometimes when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated.Depopulated means not having enough people. 明明只少了那么一个人, 整个世上却都冷清了. Sometimes when one person is absent, the whole world seems depopulated. I'm sure a lot of people feel like that when they've lost someone that matter to them the most.

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~ “No, no!” cried Holmes. “Don’t say a word to the cousin, I beg of you.” The manager raised his eyebrows at this response, but promised he wouldn’t. “I noticed when you were looking at your records,” said Holmes, “that you sold those casts on June 3rd last year. Could you tell me when Beppo was arrested?” “I can work it out from the pay list,” said the manager, referring to another file. “He was last paid on May 20th, so the arrest would have been around then.” Holmes thanked the manager and urged him once more to say nothing about our investigation. Then we headed back west. It was midafternoon by the time we managed to grab some lunch at a cafeteria. A newspaper on one of the tables announced, “Kensington Outrage: Murder by a Madman.” The report, by Horace Harker, was a highly sensational version of the incident he had described to us. Holmes propped it up on the salt and pepper shakers and read it while he ate. “This is very good, Watson,” he chuckled. “Listen to this ... It is satisfying to know that both Mr. Lestrade of the Metropolitan Police and Mr. Sherlock Holmes, the famous private detective, are of one mind as to the cause of this series of grotesque incidents: they arise, they say, from madness rather than deliberate crime. “The newspapers, Watson, can be very helpful, if you only know how to use them. And now, if you’ve finished eating, we shall return to Kensington and see what the manager of Harding Brothers has to say about this case.” The owner, Mr. Gerard Harding, turned out to be a polite and helpful little man. “Yes, sir, I’ve read the newspaper report. We sold Mr. Harker the bust some months ago. We ordered three of them from Gelder & Co. They’re all sold now.” “Who bought them?” asked Holmes. “Let me consult my sales book. Ah, here it is. One to Mr. Harker; one to Mr. Josiah Brown of Laburnum Villa, Laburnum Vale, Chiswick; and one to Mr. Sandeford of Lower Grove Road, Reading.” Holmes showed him the photograph, but Harding didn’t recognize the face in it. “Do you employ any Italians here?” Holmes asked. “Yes, we have several on our staff.” “And would any of them have been able to take a look in that sales book?” “I dare say it’s possible.” “Thank you for your help, Mr Harding.” “You’re very welcome, sir.”

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~ In China we go to 民政局 for both getting married and getting divorced.Yeah.I know in the UK we talked about it for getting married. You have to go to like the council, sort of like the registry or like a civil...You have to go to what is called the registry office. The registry office.就登记大厅，就跟我们那个民政局差不多。Yeah.Is this the same place you go to when you want to get divorce?No. No.To get divorce, you can actually do it online or you can go to a family court. Oh, I see, but either way you have to go to the court?The court needs to grant the conditional offer and then you're given time, normally about I think it's 20 weeks before they finalize the divorce. Is that a cool down period as well? 那个也是什么冷静期吗?It’s normally a cool down period. The idea of that period of time is to allow the husband and wife to discuss how best to proceed in terms of dividing assets. Oh. The pragmatics.It’s to allow them that time to plan what's gonna happen next. Because the reason why divorce can get very expensive is if both parties don't agree and then you get solicitors involved.Lawyers. Lawyers.And both of you would get solicitors.Exactly.And then you fight for everything. Yeah. And that's what can drag out a divorce case. So there are quite a few divorce cases where it's quite simple. They just say “okay, it's not working. You can take this, I'll take this, and that's it”. But obviously divorce sometimes it can't... divorce might not be that smooth.Emm. Not that amicable.Exactly.

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, Lulu, what do you want to talk about today? Tell you what, let's talk about divorce. That's a very cheery happy subject. It's a pragmatic subject. I guess so. We talked about marriage before, if you remember. We did touch a little bit on divorce, but I don’t think we went into too much detail. I think we're mostly focused on sort of like the happy wedding, newly weds and all that. Well, I focused on that because I'm generally a happier person than you are. Yeah. But let's talk about divorce nonetheless. Okay. I think divorce rate is extremely high in the UK, if I remember correctly. It’s high, but it's actually at its lowest level since 1971. Divorce rate? The divorce rate. In the UK. But it's still quite high, 32% of marriages in the UK end in divorce. 32%, that's actually lower than I expected, to be honest. How much is it in China? I can't remember. You got me there. Actually, I don't know, but I think bits and pieces I've read it seems that the divorce rate in China now is higher than the UK, that's a depressing thought. Yeah. I've seen different figures for China and I've also seen different figures for the UK, but it seems to be around the 32% mark that seems to be the most common. Have you ever thought about the possibility of it dropping, like percentage-wise? It's just because fewer people get married nowadays. Probably yeah, I think that does have a really strong impact, there's so many couples that are common in law. Like common law marriage? Yeah.Civil partnership. Not civil partnerships. That's slightly different. OK, so common law就是事实婚姻那个概念, 对吧? Yeah.So, you live together, you just don't get that certificate. That’s it. That's pretty much it. For those of you who don't remember the marriage episode we did before. So, in the UK it is completely legal. I don't mean it that way, but like for two people to live together, they will have like the complete legal status as a married couple. Pretty much. I don't know the details of the law, but it's like, for example, for how long and how you are known to the neighbors. It's also mostly around assets. So, if, for example, they break up who gets what assets.You still have to divide the assets? 即使是这种同居的男女朋友, 只要是common law married, 他们之后分手的时候还是要分财产的. Exactly the same as a married couple. Pretty much. That's why some of my friends or friend’s friends in the UK, they've been together for decades. They just don't want that piece of paper. No, and in the UK, there's no stigma for not getting married. It's just very, very common. It's a personal choice.

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~ Mr. Lestrade from London’s Metropolitan Police was a frequent visitor at 221B Baker Street, the home I shared with my friend, the famous detective Sherlock Holmes. Holmes always liked these visits because Lestrade would tell him all the latest news from the world of crime. In return, Holmes might give Lestrade some helpful suggestions for whatever case he was trying to solve. On one evening in June 1900, Lestrade was embarrassed when Holmes asked him what case he was working on. “It’s so ridiculous and stupid that I’m not sure if I want to even tell you,” he said. “On the other hand, although it’s not very important, it’s also strange, and I know you are interested in strange cases. In fact, it might be of more interest to Dr. Watson than to us.” I looked up when I heard my name. “Is it about disease, then?” I asked. “Disease of the mind, maybe,” said Lestrade, “only a madman would hate Napoleon so much that he would want to destroy every statue of him that he can find.” “You mean Napoleon Bonaparte, the former emperor of France?” I exclaimed. “That’s correct,” said Lestrade. “It’s become a case for the police because this man isn’t smashing his own statues of the French emperor—he’s committing burglary to destroy those belonging to other people.” “This does sound very interesting, Lestrade,” said Holmes. “Please tell me more.” Lestrade took out a notebook to look through the details. “The first case was reported four days ago,” he said. “It took place at Harrison’s Art and Antiques, a shop on Kennington Road in London. The assistant went into the back office for a moment when he heard a crash from the main shop. Hurrying back in, he found a plaster bust of Napoleon, which had been standing on the counter, lying in fragments on the floor. He rushed into the street but saw no sign of who did it. “The bust was very cheap, and it seemed like one of those random acts of vandalism that happen from time to time and are not worth investigating. The second case, however, was more serious and, in its way, strange. It happened only last night.” “Just a short distance from the shop I just mentioned lives a doctor by the name of Barnicot. This man is an admirer of Napoleon, and his house is full of books and pictures of the French emperor. Some time ago, he purchased two plaster busts of Napoleon exactly the same from Harrison’s Art and Antiques. One of these he placed in the hall of his house, and the other in his doctor’s surgery in Lower Brixton. “This morning, Dr. Barnicot woke up and discovered his house had been burgled in the night, but nothing had been taken except the bust of Napoleon. It had been carried out into the garden and thrown against the wall, beneath which he found its remains.” Holmes happily rubbed his hands. “This is fascinating,” he murmured. “You’ve not heard the end yet,” said Lestrade. “At midday, Dr. Barnicot arrived at his surgery, and you can imagine his amazement when he found the window open and broken pieces of the second Napoleon bust all over the room. In neither case could we find any clues as to the person who carried out these bizarre crimes. And those, Mr. Holmes, are the facts of the case.” “And very strange facts they are, too,” said Holmes. “Tell me, were Dr. Barnicot’s busts exactly the same as of the one destroyed in the Harrison shop?” “Yes. Exactly the same.” “This suggests the criminal isn’t motivated by a general hatred of Napoleon. Think of how many statues of Napoleon there must be in London. Surely it’s too much of a coincidence that the three he happened to destroy are all identical.” “I’m not so sure,” said Lestrade. “There may be hundreds of statues of Napoleon in London, but as far as we know Harrison’s is the only shop selling them in that area of the city. Therefore, a local Napoleon-hater would begin with them. What do you think, Watson?” “I suppose it’s pos

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. The other thing I have noticed is something called special fried rice. And so I was thinking what's so special about it? Because in China, if you say special fried rice and you think this 炒饭 must be amazing. This got like all these expensive things in it, like prawns and like seafood. It must be like gold.Yeah.Gold in it as well. Yeah. And then I realize it's just 扬州炒饭. It is. It's just 扬州炒饭. And I have no idea why it's called special fried rice. I think it's because in many restaurants it was a special, so it was like a speciality dish and the name just stuck, so it became special fried rice. And if you just want like normal rice, you call it steamed rice.Steamed rice or plain rice.Plain rice.But I always remember when my dad, because he loves Chinese takeaways. When my dad came to China, I asked him “what do you want to eat?” And he said “I have some special fried rice” and I just said “Dad, this is China, fried rice isn't very special”. 算不上特别美食. I forgot does it also come in just numbers on the menu like No.68, No.57, that sort of thing. And you know the reason for that is.Why?Because many of the dishes people couldn't pronounce. Okay, well, special fried rice is not Chinese. But these are just some of the typical dishes. They do have some dishes, for example, like a version of 麻婆豆腐. They've got a version of that, but because not many people can say that.Mapo tofu, it's not that difficult. Kung Pao chicken, it's not that difficult. But it is difficult for somebody who's not really traveled and doesn't really know. So what they do is they use numbers.Another reason as well is that you have to think it was immigrants that opened these restaurants.And sometimes not even Chinese immigrants. Sometimes not even Chinese immigrants. Many of the takeaways were run by immigrants, and you have to think that their English was probably not completely proficient. Emm.So this was a way of both sides being able to communicate. So instead of saying “okay, I want crispy duck pancakes”, they'll go “I'll have number18”.Ah, I see.So it's very clear. I see.For what they want.This is more very efficient system. Exactly.

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 have you been doing since Chinese New Year?I mean apart from being busy at work, I spent all of my spare time trying to go to the gym or going for workout to try to shed some of those holiday weight that I put on.Oh, you tell me about it. I put on a few kilos during the holidays. 中文现在也说每逢佳节长三斤。I don't think it's just三斤, is it? I actually did put on三斤。Exactly？Exactly.I think I put on more than that. So, I thought why don't we talk about food? I mean, we can't eat any delicious food anymore, but at least we can talk about it.Exactly.That's the spirit.Let's fantasize about some of the food that we can actually not eat right now. But I thought, you know, we talked about British food and also British food was there to talk about really. Oh, come on. British food is actually really really nice, but that's a completely other episode. So I thought today, let's talk about food in the UK, but in particular Chinese food in the UK.Oh. That's an interesting, that is actually a very interesting topic. I mean, everybody complains about British food, right? Including some British. But the fact is because of the multiculturalism, 因为英国是一个比较多文化这种移民国家, so especially in London, you can pretty much find food from all parts of the world.Exactly. And in the UK even very, very small places, even some villages, it's quite common to find a Chinese restaurant. I once heard a saying, I don't know if it's a saying or a joke, saying that they will always be at least three different types of restaurants on any given British street, Italian, Indian and Chinese. Is that true? That's absolutely true. I would say probably more Indian and Chinese rather than Italian, but I would say, I've been to very small villages in the UK and they still have a Chinese takeaway. Emm. So let's talk about Chinese food. I think for those of you who have never been to the UK, you will find that these Chinese food that we talk about, they're not really like the Chinese food we're used to at home. Well, yeah. Let’s, we'll talk about the dishes a little bit later, but first of all, as you were saying before, going for a Chinese is incredibly popular in the UK.So they, yeah, I've heard people say “fancy a Chinese”, which initially I found really offensive and creepy, and then I realized they were just talking about Chinese takeaway. Yeah. They're not talking about Chinese people, they're saying if you go for a Chinese that means you're going to get a Chinese takeaway.You call it “takeaway”. Yes.Instead of “takeout”? Yeah. Takeout is American English. But these two are exactly the same meaning. Exactly the same meaning. So if you say takeaway or takeout, pretty much, people will understand what you're saying. Emm, like when you lived in London, did you use to have like a Chinese take away that you will order from.Oh, yeah. Yeah.Remember that when I was growing up this is the days before deliveries and things like that. When you actually wanted to go for Chinese food, what you have to do is call them first of all, and then you go to the restaurant yourself to pick it up.What's the point in that than just go to the restaurant?

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~ Buzzmix-EP144-Grit.mp3In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Grit. I'm sure many of you have read articles about how kids are allowed to roam free, do whatever they want in the west, and they really aren't put under that much pressure as the kids in China. 相信很多人都读过那种 “西方快乐教育”的文章, 并且十分羡慕。但今天的Buzzword里, 想和你分享一个在近些年来英语国家也逐渐开始认同的一个教育理念，叫做Grit教育 , 我看过有把它翻译成 “坚毅教育”或者 “坚韧教育”。Have you ever wondered what makes someone a good student, a good athlete, or a good leader? Why do some people accomplish their goals while others fail. What makes the difference? 你有没有想过不管在哪个领域，不管在多大或者多小的环境里，为什么有人成功有人失败?Usually we answer these questions by talking about the talent of top performers. We say they are very gifted, they are very talented, but we all know there's more to the story than that. 我们也都知道能成功，绝对不只靠天赋。Now some research seem to argue that what makes a bigger impact than talent or intelligence is mental toughness.Mental toughness or grit as they call. It plays a more important role than anything else for achieving your goals in health, business, and life in general. 于是很多最近的研究就得出这样的一个结论，就说grit或者叫mental toughness，你个人精神的坚韧、坚毅程度才是最终决定你是否能成功的要素。So what is grit? Grit is the perseverance and passion to achieve long term goals. 简单来说grit就是达成长远目标long term goals的这种perseverance坚持不懈and passion和热情. Angela Duckworth, a researcher at the University of Pennsylvania did this popular Ted talk. She suggests that grit is a strong predictor of success and ability to reach one's goals. 说到grit怎么火起来，就不得不提到 Angela Duckworth, 她是做了一个挺有名的Ted演讲，有兴趣的你也可以去看一下，专门讲grit. 她也把自己的研究成果写成了这样一本关于grit的书。Her research on grit has shown that, for example, West Point cadets who scored highest on the Grit Test were 60% more likely to succeed than their peers.西点军校里那些 Grit Test里面得分高的学生，在以后的生活训练学习里比其他人的成功概率要高出了60%.Ivy League undergraduate students who had more grit also had higher GPAs than their peers .在Ivy League就是美国这些顶级藤校的大学生里面，如果更有grit的这些人，他们的整个绩点也会明显的高于他们的同学。When comparing two people who are the same age but have different levels of education, grit (and not intelligence) more accurately predicts which one will be better educated.Now this is very interesting because earlier studies of achievement often emphasize the notion that high achieving people typically possess traits above and beyond that of normal ability. 在此之前，很多关于这些成功人士的研究都会聚焦在他们异于常人的这些能力水平天赋等等上面。But people like Duckworth, they emphasize that grit is a better predictor of achievement than intellectual talent because grit provides the stamina required to stay the course amid challenges and setbacks. 但是近些年来像Duckworth做出的这样的研究，就表明其实成功路上最重要的品质就是 grit，坚韧、坚毅，因为只有这样才能在各种的挑战和挫折面前还能够继续走下去. Stay the course. Now let's get more specific and talk about some of the characteristics relating to grit. No.1 is Courage. While courage is hard to measure, it is directly proportional to your level of grit. More specifically, your ability to manage fear of failure is imperative and a predictor of success. 跟grit相关的人格特质的其中之一是courage勇气, 这个勇气主要是去manage fear of failure敢于应对失败的勇气。

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~ Welcome back to 【Geek time】. This is Brad. How are you doing, Lulu? Hi, Brad. I'm fine. And I can't wait to hear more about Elon Musk, last time we talked about Space X . Aha. Now we're gonna talk about something that's tangential to Space X, it's called Starlink.Star Link.And Starlink isn't a space program in the sense that space rockets and things like that, it's actually satellites, and Space X uses their rockets to put these Starlink satellites into space. 嗯, 中文叫星链, which really created a buzz in all types of media, really. Haha, yeah.What is Starlink about? You said Starlink is all about satellites, and one of the jobs of Space X is to send Starlink satellites into space. What are they used for and what is the coverage? Starlink is basically trying to cover the world with internet service. And so oftentimes there's a lot of cables that connect internet around people's homes. People at home have WiFi and they can use cell phone service. But Starlink is going to bring basically internet service and wireless service now to people around the world using satellites. Emm. I heard that the expectation at least is that it offers better internet connection than 5G.Yeah. If you look at the connection, the internet connection, while in some cases it won't be as strong. It depends on line of sight and just how close you are to one of the satellites. But in general, it is faster than 5G. However, if you live in a city, because you're so close to the cell phone towers and there's a lot of connections around the city, you're probably going to get better service with mobile service than you would with Starlink. However, when you're in a van in the middle of nowhere, and there's no cell phone service around, you could easily get access to Starlink. I see. I have a question though. Are there worries about, because obviously it's still... Elon Musk is a private company. Right? It's not really like, for example, state owned or something in... akin to that, then don't people worry about when Elon Musk controls the internet? Yeah, well, of course, you know, people will always be afraid of who is in control of it. in the US, you have all the internet is controlled by private companies anyways. The internet is not something like power or water that's government controlled. Even in some cases, power and water has been sent off to private companies and that's kind of scary. But yeah, companies in the US are kind of in some ways limiting what access people have to the internet. Okay. But perhaps I should rephrase it, because Starlink is aiming to install or to build better internet connection than 5G, then obviously people would probably opt for the faster option. Wouldn't that bring with it some sort of monopoly issue, like if he's monopolizing the fastest internet connection, that sort of worries? Definitely. Because if other companies start wanting to put satellites into space, there's gonna be a lot of interruption. They're gonna possibly smack into each other. It will create a lot of problems. And so if there's probably going to be some sort of laws built around what he can and cannot do with the internet connection.But not yet.But not yet, right. Because this is still in the infancy. And so no one has really looked at it and go OK, we can see some problems here, but as of yet, there's not been anything to stop him from doing this. Yeah. But talking about these satellites, they're not very big satellites, are they?No. They're actually not that big. They might sound like they're quite big, but in comparison to a lot of the other satellites out there, they're quite small. Most of the satellites are, there about it a little bit further away than the ISS the space station we talked about earlier. They're almost 600 kilometers away from the Earth. But there are two hundred twelve hundred kilograms, while there are smaller satellites, they're not really all 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~ 3月14日，埃隆·马斯克的SpaceX公司获准第三次发射星舰；北京时间3月14日晚21时40分，太空探索技术公司（SpaceX）创始人马斯克发文，向星舰团队表达祝贺，星舰“已达到轨道速度”。要知道，仅4个月前的十一月，星舰的上一次试飞以提前发生爆炸而告终，前几次的故障包括：硬着陆撞击海面、发动机传感故障、节流阀卡住。接受采访时，记者提问马斯克：连续失败，你觉得有必要就此打住吗？答说，“不知道什么是放弃，除非我死了。”Elon: I don’t ever give up. I mean, I’d have to be dead or completely incapacitated.被网有调侃为“价值三十亿美金的名画”于是第三次发射被提上议程：“这枚400英尺高(122米)的巨型火箭计划于美国东部时间周四上午8点(北京时间周四晚8点) 开始的110分钟窗口期（launch window）任意一个时间内，从Space X 位于德克萨斯州博卡奇卡的Starbase发射升空。”当然，发射全过程也有在社交媒体X和其官网同步直播，不知道昨天有观看的小伙伴吗？The time has come for Starship to embark on its third test flight, during which the megarocket will once again be pushed to its limits and demonstrate advances made since the previous flight last November.The 400-foot-tall (122-meter) megarocket is scheduled to blast off from SpaceX’s Starbase facility in Boca Chica, Texas, at roughly 8:00 a.m. ET on Thursday, March 14, with a 110-minute launch window available. The company’s livestream will be made available on X and its website, with the broadcast starting at 7:30 a.m. ET. Of course, this is contingent on favorable weather conditions.如果你好奇什么是 SpaceX, 它是做什么的，为什么这么重要...相关阅读欢迎点击下方音频或者查看下方文稿了解哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. 欢迎回来【极客时间】. Hi, Brad.Hi, Lulu.So in today's Geek Time, I thought we continue to talk about Elon Musk. All right. Because he's done a lot of really outstanding things. I mean really out-there things, right? You know, people, even if you’re not into science technology, you've heard of things like SpaceX, Starlink, 什么星链呐SpaceX,还有像各种各样的这种rockets, I thought we can start with SpaceX, what does it actually do? And why is it so impressive? Well. A SpaceX was a company, it was started in 2002. The whole reason was there was a competition, and that competition was to design a rocket that could be sent into space and then reused within 2 weeks. And SpaceX was able to win that competition, but that the whole idea is to reduce cost for putting things into space. They are often referred to as a payload, but just something like people or in a satellite or parts for the space station, and do it in a cost effective way. 对, 那个叫载荷吧, 就是那个 payloads. So this was started by what, the US government, you said this competition?I don't remember if the government started, but like the government wanted this, because NASA, NASA could do a lot, but they had to have other people looking at us. NASA is kind of limited as to what it can and can't do. And so they wanted more of like the private sector to go out and start doing some of this stuff as well. And so this whole competition was created as a way to get that going.So basically, private companies like SpaceX they were competing in trying to make fully reusable rockets? You said reusable within 2 weeks.Right.What about the cost? Do they also reduce cost?That's the whole point. It's like if you can reuse the rocket, then you can reduce the cost by a lot. SpaceX has been able to get their rocket launches down to about or 67 million per launch, which is 10 times cheaper than what NASA has been able to do this far. Wow, 10 times, mainly because the rockets are reusable or immediately reusable. I see. I see.