早安英文 第625期:英国的高级下午茶竟然是low tea?

 

tea time 喝茶的时间 / 晚饭

Jack¹, come in for your tea!

Jack, 来吃晚饭！

It's tea time!

晚饭时间到了！

什么是Tea Party？

"Tea party" this might be more familiar to people, if anyone has seen cakes on trays and fancy teapots ect, this is usually at a tea party.

茶会对人们来说是一个比较熟悉的词，如果你看到蛋糕点心在精美的托盘上，还有洋气的茶杯，等等，这通常就是茶会。

This is how you tell someone is very "Posh" -- upper class.

这就是你可以看出一些人很时髦，比如贵族阶层等。

英国的高级下午茶竟然是low tea?

英国人喝茶小习惯

It's when you drink a cup of tea outside in your garden, when you finish you have to throw the last few drops out onto the grass!

当你坐在花园喝茶的时候，当你喝完了，你会把剩下的一点点倒到草里。

low tea 与 high tea

两者都可以指 Afternoon Tea 下午茶，悠闲的贵族或上层社会一般食用low tea，low tea一般指午饭后、离午饭时间不远的下午茶，而high tea通常是劳工阶层晚餐前的茶，但现在很少分low tea与high tea了

1 jack   

n.插座，千斤顶，男人；v.抬起，提醒，扛举；n.（Jake）杰克

参考例句：

• I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
• He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。