How do you like your tea?
你喜歡喝什麼樣的茶？
Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English. I’m Alice...
大家好，歡迎收聽六分鐘英語。我是愛麗絲。
And I’m Neil… Um… Alice. What’s this?
我是尼爾。愛麗絲，那是什麼?
It’s a cup of tea, Neil. Would you like some?
是一杯茶。你要來一杯嗎？
Oh, I can’t drink that! You didn’t let the tea brew for long enough. And you forgot to add sugar.
不了，我不喝茶！你泡茶的時間還不夠長！而且你忘了加糖!
Well, make it yourself next time! And when you brew a cup of tea, by the way, you add boiling water to tea leaves or a teabag and allow the flavour to develop.
好吧，下次你自己沏吧。順便說一下，如果你想泡杯茶，要用沸水衝泡茶葉或茶包，讓茶的香味充分散發。
I’m sorry, Alice. I didn’t mean to be rude about your tea. But I do like it very strong and sweet.
不好意思，愛麗絲。我無意冒犯你，評判你泡的茶。但我喜歡很濃很甜的茶。
Tea is the subject of today’s show. And Neil, I think you』d like the way they serve tea in India. They drink chai – a strong black tea served with lots of milk, sugar and spices.
茶就是今天節目的主題。尼爾，我想你會喜歡印度沏茶的方式。他們喝的印度奶茶是一種濃鬱的黑茶，裡面加了大量奶、糖和香料。
Mmm… that does sound good. I quite fancy a cup of chai now.
恩，這聽上去不錯。我現在很想喝一杯印度奶茶。
Did you know that it was the British who introduced tea to India?
你知道是英國把茶葉引入印度的嗎？
No, I didn’t, Alice. This is very interesting… I’m proud of our habit of having tea all the time and teabags are great!A marvellous little invention!
這我不知道。這挺有意思的。我一直為我們飲茶的習慣而感到驕傲，茶包好棒！這個小發明太棒了！
Yes, I agree. Well, that’s my question for you today. Where was the teabag invented? Was it in …a) China b) the US Or c) Britain
我也這麼認為。這也是今天我要問你的問題。茶包是哪個國家發明的？a) 中國b) 美國還是 c)英國？
Hmm. I buy a lot of teabags but I don’t know their history. So I’m going to guess c) Britain.
我買了很多茶包，但是關於它的歷史我並不了解。我猜是c)英國。
Well, we』ll find out if you chose the right answer later on. Let’s listen now to Professor Markman Ellis talking about the Chinese tea plant.He’s a historian at Queen Mary, University of London.
之後我們再看你選的是否正確。現在我們來聽聽Markman Ellis教授講述中國的茶樹。他是倫敦大學瑪麗皇后學院的歷史學家。
Tea is a shrub that grows naturally in the mountainous areas of China and several thousand years ago, no one knows how exactly, there… I mean… there are stories…it became clear that if you consumed the leaves of this plant especially the younger leaves, then it had an interesting effect on you. And that effect could be thought of as medicinal or it could be thought of as just kind of sanative – making you feel a bit better than you used to feel.
茶屬於灌木，生長於中國的山區，幾千年前沒有人確切知道茶葉的故事，之後人們越來越清楚如果飲用這種植物的葉子，尤其是嫩葉，會對身體有益。這也可以稱為一種藥效，簡單說就是有益健康，使你比之前感覺更好。
Professor Markman Ellis tells us that people in Ancient China consumed – or ate – leaves from the tea plant and it had an interesting effect on them.
Markman Ellis教授告訴我們中國古代的人們就已經飲用茶樹的茶葉，這還對他們的身體有益。
Professor Ellis says tea has a sanative effect – making you feel better – so I might try munching a few leaves later on.
Markman Ellis教授說茶葉有益健康，讓你感覺更好，一會我要嚼幾片茶葉試試。
Alright then. Apparently the Chinese started drinking tea because of its medicinal – or healing – qualities. And they』ve been drinking tea for thousands of years! Well we British may love a good cup of tea – but we haven’t been brewing it for nearly so long as the Chinese.
好吧。顯然中國人飲茶是因為其藥效。他們飲茶已經有幾千年歷史了。英國人喜歡喝好茶，但是我們飲茶的歷史沒有中國那麼悠久。
But remember that tea actually grows in China, Alice. We don’t grow it in Britain.
但是要記住茶樹實際上生長於中國。英國並沒有種植茶樹。
Good point, Neil. Which brings me back to what we were talking about earlier.In the 19th century the British started to grow tea in India in order to compete with Chinese tea production. When tea first arrived in Britain in the 17th century it was incredibly expensive and only the elite could afford to drink it.
沒錯。這也是我們之前談論的。十九世紀英國開始在印度種植茶葉，為了跟中國茶葉相競爭。當茶葉十七世紀第一次引入英國時，價格非常昂貴，只有社會名流才能負擔得起。
Elite means a small group of people in society who have money and power. Well, the opposite is true today – everyone drinks tea!And cheap teabags make really strong tea – just the way I like it!
社會名流是指社會中一小群有錢有勢的人。但現在情況完全不一樣了，每個人都喝得起茶！便宜的茶包茶香濃鬱，這種是我喜歡的！
Oh, it’s not for me!I like tea with a delicate flavour – Lapsang Suchong is my favourite with its evocative fragrance.
這不適合我。我喜歡香氣清淡的茶，正山小種紅茶是我最喜歡的，帶有令人回味的香氣。
Not teabags, then?
不是茶包？
No, Neil. Lapsang is different from other types of teabecause the leaves are smoke-dried over pinewood fires giving the tea its distinctive smoky flavour.
不是。正山小種和其他茶葉不同，其茶葉經松木火燻制，因此具有獨特的煙燻味道。
You sound like a TV advert – I can just see the misty mountains and fields of tea…Can you tell us what evocative means?
你說得像是電視廣播，我仿佛能看見煙霧蒙蒙的山脈和層層疊疊的茶田。你能告訴我令人回味是什麼意思嗎？
It means making you imagine something pleasant. And for some people tea drinking is a spiritual experience.Let’s listen to BBC reporter Mike Williams learning about the Asian custom of the tea ceremony.
這是指能讓你聯想起愉快的事。對於一些人來說，喝茶是一種精神享受。我們聽聽BBC記者Mike Williams講述亞洲茶道禮儀。
Please enjoy a mouthful of green tea.
請品嘗一口綠茶。
Thank you... That was a bit less than a mouthful. It’s a very very small amount, isn’t it?
謝謝。這還不夠一口喝的。這量太少了。
It’s about 20ml. It’s the way to appreciate tea in very small quantitiesso you can concentrate and cultivate your mindfulness in drinking the tea.
這大概20毫升。品茶就是喝一點，這樣你能集中精力品味茶，通過喝茶正念。
Mindfulness? What do you mean by mindfulness?
正念？這是什麼意思？
Tea ceremony has some of its origin in Buddhism. The Japanese tea ceremony for example has a lot of Zen Buddhism influence. Mindfulness is the concentration and focus on the now– forget about the past, forget about the future, and enjoy this specific moment. And that’s what I call mindfulness.
茶道和佛教有些淵源。日本茶道深受禪宗佛教影響。正念是指專心，關注現在，忘記過去，忘記未來，享受當下。這就是我說的正念。
So they don’t use mugs in the tea ceremony. It’s 20 millilitres or a mouthful of green tea.
茶道中不使用馬克杯。杯子只盛20毫升或一口量的綠茶。
That’s right. Drinking just a mouthful – or a small amount – helps you concentrate and cultivate mindfulness. As the speaker explains, mindfulness means living in the moment and forgetting about the past and future.
沒錯。喝茶只喝一口，或很少的量，可以幫助你集中注意力，培養正念。就如上面提到的，正念是指生活在當下，忘記過去和未來。
Well, forgive me for thinking about the past – but how about the answer to today’s quiz question?
原諒我一直記著過去，話說今天問題的答案是什麼？
OK then. I asked: Where was the teabag invented? Was it in… a) China?, b) the US? of c) Britain?
這就來揭曉。我問你：茶包是哪個國家發明的？a) 中國b) 美國還是 c)英國？
And I said c) Britain. And I must be right.
我選的是c)英國。一定沒錯！
Well, I’m afraid you’re wrong, Neil! It was b) the US. Teabags first appeared commercially in the first decade of the 20th centuryand were successfully marketed by Thomas Sullivan, a tea merchant from New York, who shipped his teabags around the world.
你錯了，尼爾！正確答案是b) 美國。包首次以商品形式出現是在20世紀10年代，由Thomas Sullivan成功推向市場，他是一名來自紐約的茶商，通過海運向全世界銷售他的茶包。
Really? Teabags are older than I thought! Now, can you tell us the words we heard today?
真的嗎？茶包的歷史比我想像的悠久！現在我們再回憶一遍聽到的單詞吧？
They are:
今天聽到的單詞有：
brew
衝泡
consumed
飲用
sanative
有益健康的
medicinal
有藥效的
elite
社會名流
evocative
令人回味的
mouthful
一口
mindfulness
正念
Well, that’s the end of today’s 6 Minute English. You can go and put the kettle on now for a nice brew. Please join us again soon!
今天的六分鐘英語就到這裡。你可以去燒一壺水泡一壺好茶。下次節目再見！
Bye.
再見！