In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Ghosting. 马上就是万圣节了, 可能大家一听今天的buzzword Ghosting就是Ghost “鬼”这个词加ing, 就会觉得璐璐是不是要开始讲什么恐怖的事情了. Actually ghosting has nothing to do with scary things. But it has everything to do with relationships. So ghosting refers to abruptly cutting off contact with someone without giving that person any warning or explanation for doing so. 没有任何预警的就突然切断联系, 其实就是中文里说的“玩消失”. So for example, if you are dating, and the person you're dating just suddenly disappears. And they cut off all the contact with you without explaining why, then we can say you have been ghosted. It's called ghosting because it involves someone essentially vanishing into thin air, disappearing as if they were a ghost. Ghosting is generally used in reference to a romantic relationship, for example, when you're dating. But it can technically refer to any scenario where contact unexpectedly stops. Ghosting这个词最开始虽然只是恋爱领域的事情, 但其实如果友人、家人甚至你面试的公司突然对你玩消失, 也有很多人会用Ghosting这个词. 玩消失, 既可以是一夜之间突然毫无征兆的发生, 也可能是在一个很漫长的过程中, the other person might start by soft ghosting 它可以逐渐的消失. Some of the early signs that someone might be ghosting you include如果出现以下的这些征兆, 你就要小心了, 可能对方要开始ghosting了. They regularly bail out on plans to get together. 比如经常会取消计划或者尽量找借口不跟你见面. They struggle to make commitments不愿意做出任何承诺. They don't like to share personal Information. They don't want you to meet their friends or family. They disappear from social media. They rarely respond to your texts or calls, your conversation with them lack depths, and they seem disinterested. 你跟他们的交流也变得非常浅层, 而且通常他们对和你聊的事以及你的生活都表现的没有什么兴趣. Those are probably some of the early warning signs that they might start ghosting you. This day and age, ghosting very often occurs on social media. It involves cutting off all social media contact without any explanation. The other person may unfriend, unfollow, or even block you on all social media platforms. 如今这个年代, 很多时候的“玩消失”都是从社交平台开始的, 他们可以对你unfriend删好友, unfollow取关, 甚至把你拉黑. They may even go so far as to deactivate or delete their social accounts to prevent all contact. 甚至有人做得更绝, 会直接删掉社交账号, 就为了让你找不到ta们. Although the behavior of ghosting has been around since the dawn of time, but the term ghosting came mainstream about 7 years ago alongside the surge in online dating. And it became an official entry in the The Merriam-Webster Dictionary in 2017. 虽然玩消失这种行为并不新鲜, 但是ghosting这个词大概也就是六七年前才开始变得火起来. 2017年正式被收入Merriam-Webster Dictionary. The reason why the term suddenly got mainstream is perhaps because online dating, all of these dating apps has simply made it way easier to ghost people, so that more people feel like they could relate or understand being ghosted or doing the ghosting. 之所以近些年来ghosting这个词突然火起来, 可能是因为现在有太多的这种左滑右滑上下滑的dating APP or social network APP, 所以很多人都经历过ghosting这种行为. Now if you have ever been ghosted in any form of relationship, one of the questions that you're going to keep asking yourself is why can't the other person just come out and say they don't want to contact me anymore. Why do they choose to ghost？ There are two primary reasons why a person would ghost another. So reason number one, it's the Easy Route. 第一个原因就是因为“玩消失” 简单粗暴. Because many people find it way easier in a short term to ghost someone than to have an awkward, uncomfortable, heart to heart conversation about why you're not interested in keeping in contact with them. The person doing the ghosting often wants to avoid confrontation or dealing with someone's hurt feelings. So they simply stop all communication, hope that you get the message and just leave them alone. Reason number two is option overload and fatigue. 第二个原因就是选择过多, 腻了就换. Especially with internet dating, this is what you see. There are so many choices. So they're quick to say, ‘OK, next’. 特别是各种交友约会的APP里, 腻了就ghosting简直是一个常态. Now the reason why we talk about ghosting is because on the surface, ghosting seems harmless. They're just disappearing, they're not shouting at you, they're not having a fight with

"英文小酒馆致力于打造沉浸式英语学习社群，无论是微信社群、有声节目、线上活动和课程，我们都全心全意为爱好英语的你带去一份专属于英语的快乐。搜公号: 【璐璐的英文小酒馆】 查音频节目文稿，了解广阔的世界。跟随我们的脚步，体会英语的温度。" Hi everyone, and welcome back to Britain under the Microscope.欢迎回到【闲话英伦】. Hello 安澜. Hi. Lulu. Hi, everyone. Actually. Today let's make it a special edition. Instead of talking about UK in general, let's talk about you. Are you getting scared? Well. A little bit. Yeah. Actually, it's because sometimes when I'm interacting with our audience, with our followers, they kind of ask so what did Anlan major in? What’s his major when he was in university？ 因为大家都知道, 我是一直读语言上来的, 很多人都会问, 说安澜在大学里学的是什么？ Actually, I know for a fact that you studied something called Classics. Yes. That's right. 翻译成什么古典或者经典什么, 这个东西是一个很特殊的学科, and I thought we can talk about that today. OK. Goody. I can hear the excitement in your voice. It's a subject that I really, really loved. This is what I studied for my BA, and my MA, I studied Chinese; but I always remember my BA and this was certainly something that I really love studying, despite the fact that, let's face it, it doesn't really get you many jobs. We can talk about the career prospects of this major in a bit. OK. But first things first, what is Classics？ Classics is, I would say, western subject. It's the study of classical languages. Classical languages here means? Ancient Greek and Latin. Ancient Greek and Latin. So it's not even modern Greek. No, no, ancient Greek. Dead languages. Well, dead-ish. But it's also the study of philosophy, art, history, and lots of other subjects all related to the ancient world, particularly Greece and Rome. I see. So is that like, I don't know, I'm trying to relate to my experience, my own experience. So I don't know is that like a history major or what is it？ It's an arts subject. So that's why I've got a BA in arts. It's partly history, but it's also languages and philosophy as well, and archaeology. 一个generally文科的东西. Yes. That's right. Now I don't know if it's just a stereotype of mind or not. Is this the sort of thing that when people hear, they go like kind of like a fancy subject, because it's not very practical. Shall we say就是听上去很高大上的, 不是那种说毕业了就能找工作, 而是那种感觉好像有钱人学的东西. I think you’re a bit too nice to me when you say oh people go Wow, you study Classics. In my experience, most of them say why？ I've met people when they hear others are studying Classics or things like that, or like art history subjects like that, they go they must be rich, they must have rich parents. All I can say to you and all of our listeners that is completely not true. But do they have that kind of perception in… or stereotype in the UK as well？ To a certain extent, yes. That's because ancient Greek and Latin is mostly taught at private schools. But the thing is, it's important to know that Classics and in particular, ancient Greek and Latin and the history and philosophy was the basis of education for centuries. So all educated people were expected to learn Latin and Greek. I think even nowadays in the UK, people, let's just say from a probably class wise, more upper class or upper-middle class people, they were probably at some point in their education learned the Classics. Yes, but you can also learn the Classics at state school as well, in particular history. I went to a state school. State school就是公立学校呗. Yeah, just an ordinary state school. I started learning Latin when I was at college, before I went to university, then I started learning Latin and Greek in more depth when I was at university. But you mentioned this is the basis of education like with all educated people being expected to learn for a long time. That was the tradition. That was the tradition. Medieval times, the renaissance, renaissance literally means rebirth, and we call it the renaissance because scholars started to find more Latin and Greek works, and that led to what is called humanism. 就是Renaissance是文艺复兴期, Humanism是人文主义 so that is closely linked with the study of cl

Welcome back to Geek Time. This is Geek Time advanced. Hi lulu. Hi Brad. We're gonna get into the more advanced ideas of quantum computing, and we're gonna talk about something that Einstein was talking about, he referred to it as spooky action and when you think about spooky, it's kind of a scary idea, maybe not like really, really scary, but something that's spooky is kind of… it’s creepy. 中文里把这个翻译成 “鬼魅效应”或者 “幽灵效应”。 Yes, it is really spooky. Is it because Einstein thought it’s something that is beyond human imagination? Is it that sort of idea? Yeah, essentially, when we look at spooky action, like a spooky action at a distance, there's this idea of quantum entanglement. What that means is you have like two particles, electrons or something like that, and they're entangled quantumly, which means that they're always going to be the same. It doesn't matter how far apart you get those two particles, they're always going to be connected, and they're always going to be the same. So like if you were to use them as a way to transmit data, because they would always be the same, you could essentially transmit data at faster than the speed of light, which is something that according to Einstein wasn't possible, right, he was looking for a way ‘can we travel faster than light?’ People just like it's not possible, but like there's this idea of quantum entanglement which allows us to do this. Basically, you have these two particles even if they're separated by like one is on earth and one is somewhere in space. We could transmit data between these two particles because they're connected somehow. I see. So like perhaps it could be used in space exploration like space stations or spaceships…and then… Yeah. And then data can be transferred instantaneously. Yeah, so like for example, if we wanted to send a message to the Mars, it would take a long time, it's not going to get there instantaneously like when we talk at a long distance, it might take a second or two for that to travel. And so there might be like some sort of echo or time lapse between our conversation on the phone, but when we're looking at this, like if we had two quantum entangled particles, one on a space station and one on earth, we could instantaneously talk to each other. There wouldn't be any gap in between. Wow. So basically maybe with quantum entanglement in the future talking to Mars or transferring things to Mars would be easier, would take less time than just air dropping it from one of my computers to another computer.

"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！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Zero Waste. Hearing this expression, you know that it has something to do with environment and sustainable living. 今天咱们就来聊聊和环保以及可持续生活方式有关的Zero Waste, 零废弃的概念. Now it sounds simple, but it's not as simple as your parents telling you don't waste food or don't waste money. It is actually a set of principles focused on waste prevention that encourages redesigning resource life cycles so that all products are reused. 零废弃的这个概念, 它是基于 waste prevention, 最大程度地避免废弃, 避免浪费所建立的一系列的准则. It encourages redesigning resource life cycles. 它关注的是重新设计各种资源的生命周期, so that all products are reused. The goal is to avoid sending trash to landfills, incinerators, or the ocean. 现在我们很多的废弃物、垃圾, 最终会到要么是landfill 垃圾填埋场, incinerator焚化炉, 或者直接排到海洋; 零废弃就是为了避免这些传统的垃圾处理方式. The Zero Waste International Alliance (ZWIA) has an even more detailed definition. 零废弃国际联盟, 它对于零废弃的定义就是The conservation of all resources by means of responsible production, consumption, reuse and recovery of all products, packaging and materials. 通过负责任的生产、消费, 所有产品的重复使用和回收, 负责任的包装设计和材料选择来实现资源的保护和节约. Without burning them and without discharges to land, water or air that threatened the environment or human health. 避免对废弃物进行焚烧, 或者是向土地、水源和空气中排放可能会破坏环境或威胁人类健康的物质. Zero waste examines the entire life cycle of a product or material, highlighting inefficiencies and unsustainable production and consumption practices. 零废弃最大的一个特点就是, 它不只是针对一件产品, 它关注的是每一个产品或者材料的全生命周期, 生产消费各种操作中不够节能环保, 不够可持续的部分。

【Geek Time】-“极客”时间，和“科技宅”Brad一起聊神秘有趣的“黑科技”“高科技”“硬科技”。欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~ Hi everyone, and welcome back to Geek Time. Hi Brad. Hey Lulu. So what are we gonna talk about today? Well, I thought we’ll talk about quantum computing. It seems to be something that a lot of people are talking about these days. Yeah, I think most people have heard of it, but honestly like if you ask me to translate, I know quantum computing is量子计算。 However, I have no idea what it actually means, so it'd be a very good crash course for me. All right, so since a lot of people don't really… they might know few basic things about computing and what that is. Before we can talk about quantum computing, we really have to understand what computing is. And when you think about all the computers we've had for since the birth of computers, there has been really this idea of binary numbers. Two states often on… 二进制就是zero and one. Exactly. So that is what we call the basic bit of computing, but most computers run off of not just using a single bit, like you might have like 8 bits which is referred to as a byte. And when you have like two states, you have 2×2×2, but it's two to the 8th power, and that has 256 different states, 000001 like that. Byte就是字节。 So an eight bit string is a bite and has, like you said, 256 different values. Yeah, right, and then you go from like bits to bytes and then bytes to kilobytes, which is a kilobyte is 1,024, not exactly 1,000, a lot of people think it's 1,000, but it's really 1,024, because that's 2x2x2x2x2… to the 10th power. I see. And so kilobytes to megabytes to gigabytes, and nowadays most people can store a terabyte in their computer, something in the terabytes. Yeah, 就是我们存储的时候说一个T一个G, so these are terabytes, gigabytes. Now before we get into like quantum computing, we're just gonna look at an example really quick of 2 bits. All Right And if you have 2bits, there's really four possibilities which could be 00, 01,10, and 11. If you like think of them as numbers, they would be like 0, 1, 2, and 3. But when we look at them as a bit format, it would be 00, 01, 10, and 11. Now when we get into quantum computing, we don't have bits as we do in computing, we have what's called a qubit or a quantum bit, but a quantum bit allows them to have both states at the same time, so rather than having a 0 or a 1, it can be 01, or like somewhere in between that, the 2 bits that we’re looking at could be 00, 01, 10, or 11, so there's four different states if we have 2bits. Now when we go into quantum computing, we have a qubit and a qubit is similar to a bit. But rather than having two possible states, it can occur with both states at the same time, or like somewhere in between those two states. And when we get into like two qubits, we have those four that 00, 01, 10, and 11. We can have all four of those states occurring all at once. So it's not just one, it's all of them. So in my very basic understanding is that quantum computing, this qubit, 量子位it's called, all of these four states to exist at the same time. So it doesn't have to be one or the other. Right, and so it allows for that and even mixing of states which allows the computers to like quantify things in much faster speeds, much… like much larger degrees, and so basically it allows it to grow exponentially faster. When you have a regular computer, it grows exponentially, but it's 2×2×2, like every bit you add, you have an exponential growth of two, but when you have a quantum computer, it’s like 4x4x4, it can just goes up so much faster. I see. You're looking at that or so. So it's much higher or more effective computing power? Right, so when you kind of think about this, a lot of computing can be seen as something when we look in cryptography as an example. Cryptography is about making… this is about encryption and decryption，就是密码和解码。对吧? Right, and so when you look at current methods like what we use on our current computers, basically their e

可以搜索公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】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. What are we going to talk about today？ I thought, since we’ve discussed about the Queen and her passing, I think it might be a good opportunity to discuss about our new King, King Charles III. Actually, at the end of that episode, you promised me that we're going to talk about King Charles III. Well, it's a big topic. So there's lots that we can discuss about this. Um. Honestly, this is… the whole idea of monarch这种君主制, it's still very, very foreign to me because we don't have a monarch anymore. And your monarch is a constitutional monarch, 君主立宪制. That's right. Let's start, first of all, what the king actually does or what the British monarch actually does. So first of all, the important role is that they are the head of state for the UK. Head of state. I see, Prime Minister is the head of government, and the King now is the head of state. Yeah, same as pretty much every other country that they have a head of state. It's normally the president in many countries, but in the UK, it is the King or Queen. So he is the head of state of the UK, and also his other role is the head of the commonwealth. So, basically, the old empire that's the left over…the old empire. Well. Many of the countries were part of the British Empire. There’re also some countries that weren't part of the British Empire. They've also joined. It's around 56 countries around the world with around 2.5 billion people. That's actually quite surprising. It's quite a large organization, and he is the King of 14 of those countries like… Canada, Australia, New Zealand. Yeah. But you say that he is the King of these countries, but these countries they have their own head of government and all that. King himself doesn't really hold a lot of real power, that's like my understanding of it.

"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！ 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，获取更多有趣节目内容和文稿哦~" Hi everyone, and welcome back to Buzzword Mix. 欢迎回到我们的迷你双语板块【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. In today's Buzzword Mix, our buzzword is Hangry. You’ve heard it right, not hungry, not angry, hangry. It's a combination of hungry and angry. So you probably can guess the meaning of hangry. Have you ever noticed that when you're really hungry, your tummy is rumbling. You are more likely to get angry, to lash out at unsuspecting loved ones or even innocent bystanders? 不知道你们有没有注意到, 当你饿着肚子的时候, 就很容易对身边的人发这种无名火. And this sudden, irrational rage is often referred to as “hanger”, a combo of hunger and anger. If you have hanger, you are hangry. 中文我觉得可以翻译成“饿到生气”. Now personally I have experienced that. For a period of time, I was having this no carb diet, and I was hungry all the time; and I had the worst temper, I would get angry for no particular reasons. 我个人可是体验过 hangry的感觉. 原来有段时间去做这种断碳饮食, 然后经常会饿, 然后脾气特别臭. Now you might think this is just a meme, a joke. 很多人可能觉得这个hangry就是一个梗. But actually now the experts are saying it is a very real thing. And the explanation they offer is when you haven't eaten for a while, the level of sugar glucose in your blood decreases. 当你饥饿到一定程度的时候, 你的血糖就会降低. When your blood sugar gets too low, it triggers a cascade of hormones, 这个时候就会触发你身体里的很多激素出现改变, including cortisol皮质醇, this is a stress hormone这是一个压力激素, and adrenaline 肾上腺素. And these hormones are released into your bloodstream to raise and rebalance your blood sugar. 因为血糖过低促使这些激素的分泌. Some of these hormones are related to anger and aggression. 而这些激素跟生气、攻击性都会有关. To be more specific, there are parts of our brains that help us control our emotions and regulate our behaviors. But if we have very low glucose level or blood sugar, this means the higher brain functions are not working as well as they could be. So there may be a breakdown in those higher brain functions that help us modulate primitive responses, therefore we start lashing out. 说得更具体一点, 其实就是我们的大脑负责管控情绪和行为的部分, 这些更高级的功能, 它需要血糖值达到一定的程度才能够正常运行; 而过度饥饿, 血糖值过低的时候, 这些大脑的高级功能就容易出现问题, 于是我们就会出现情绪失控的状态. Essentially, it's not just our bodies that run on food, it's our brains. When we don't have the critical glucose at the needed levels, mechanisms of self-control over aggression break down. 我们吃下去的东西不光是维持我们肢体的运行, 同样也在供给我们的脑, 而当血糖达不到我们的大脑所需要的量的时候, 我们对于自己aggression攻击性和愤怒的自控能力就会开始出现消减. So, when you’re hangry, you’re not just more prone to snap at somebody because you’re hungry on a physical level, you’re actually hungry on a cerebral level in your brains; And the deprivation is causing your reactive filters to blur if not shut down completely. 所以当我们说我们hangry饿到生气的时候, 不光是说饿着肚子觉得很生气, 而更多的是大脑出现了饥饿, 而这种饥饿让我们降低了这种自控能力, 开始出现了更加原始的攻击性行为。 And interestingly, researchers have also documented the hangry phenomenon in relationships. 其实有研究就表明饿到生气的现象也会影响亲密关系. A study on married couples found that the lower the participants' blood sugar level, the angrier and more aggressive they felt toward their partners. 在夫妻相处之间, 当一方的血糖值越低, 他们就会对自己的伴侣展现更多的愤怒和攻击性.

《知乎哲也》板块，由受到大家喜爱的哲学小哥TJ和主播璐璐一起探讨哲学那些事儿~ 公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】可以搜索英语全文稿哦~ Hi, everyone. And welcome back to Let's Philosophize. 欢迎回来【知乎哲也】. Hi TJ. Hi Lulu. Thanks for having me back. What's the question you’re gonna ask me today？ Lulu, do you think that we should kill people to save other people？ Okay! That is a rather strange question. Do you mean like killing bad people？ Well, I mean they might be bad people, but uh, it's hard to know, right？What I'm talking about is a philosophy problem called The Trolley Problem. I don't know if you've heard of it before. 电车问题, but enlighten us anyway. So, it's from a 1967 philosophy paper by a philosopher called Philippa Foot, and she said I'll use her words and it's a little bit academic but I think it should be okay. “it may rather be supposed that he is the driver of a runaway tram [trolley] which he can only steer from one narrow track on to the other; five men are working on one track and one man on the other; anyone on the track he enters is bound to be killed.” 就是说有这么一个失控的有轨电车, 然后在这个司机现在有1个选择要做, 就是两边的这2个铁轨在他自己在的这条轨上有5个人, 然后另外1条轨上有1个人, 如果他不变轨, 他就会直接把这5个人弄死。如果他要做一步操作, 变到另外一条轨道上, 就会杀死另外一条轨道上的那个人。 So, this is the famous trolley problem. Well, if that is the question, you’re gonna ask me, I would say I will change track because killing one person is better than killing five people？ Right, and that's a very intuitive logic, right？That 90% of people that you ask, say that uh, they would do the same thing, that they would switch the track, kill five people. And of course, we assuming these men are all working on the tracks, they do the same job. We don't know about their families, right？They all have families but five families unless this one man has a very very big family, I think the odds are that similar numbers of people will be upset per person, so it seems to make sense that you pick 5 over 1. Sounds like simple math, right？ But not all the philosophers agree with that.

Buzzmix-Ep114-Meal prep 关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】获得更多精彩内容。 In today's Buzzword Mix, our Buzzword is Meal Prep. Now this is a very simple phrase. “Meal” is just the three meals we have every day, “prep” is short for preparation. This is a quite popular trend on social media in recent years, especially before the pandemic. 今天的Buzzword我们就来聊聊, 前几年在社交媒体上很火的Meal Prep备餐这个概念. Meal prepping is the concept of preparing whole meals or dishes ahead of schedule. So instead of cooking the food and eating it straight away, you would prepare the food or the meal beforehand to eat it later. For example, you would spend some time on weekends to prepare for your meals for the following week. 备餐的概念其实很简单, 比如说你在周末花多一点时间, 把下面几天或者一周的饭食都准备好, 然后到每天要吃的时候, 只用简单的加热或者加工就可以吃了。 Now this is particularly popular amongst busy people because it can save a lot of time. And having pre-prepared meals on hand can also reduce portion size and help you reach your nutrition goals. 除了可以省时间, 很多提前备餐的人也觉得这样可以更好地控制自己的portion, 就每一顿吃的分量, 并且可以更好的做到营养的均衡, 因为可以提前计算. This way when you're super busy or when you come home exhausted from work, you're less likely to order or eat junk food. Meal prepping is actually not a new thing. There has long been a strong culture around meal prepping, with numerous online communities, like Instagram accounts, Facebook groups, dedicated to documenting the process by sharing recipes, hacks, and even the best food containers. 不管是国内还是国外, 在各种的社交媒体上, 你都可以看到很多关于meal preps的社群或者是账号, 他们会分享recipes 菜谱, hacks一些备餐的小窍门, 甚至包括the best food containers, 会去推荐一些保存食物的容器.

Lulu: Hi, everyone. And welcome back to one of your favorite segments, TV Picks. 欢迎回到【荐剧版块】. You notice that usually I say Lulu's TV Picks, “璐璐荐剧”, but today I just said TV picks, that's because today's TV picks comes from Anlan. Hi, Anlan. Anlan: Hello. Lulu: Thank you for joining this other segment. Anlan: That's absolutely brilliant to come along. I love watching TV, so hopefully I might have a few TV picks that our fans might be interested in. Lulu: You certainly have a very different taste when it comes to TV picks. Anlan: Well yeah. I'm not big fan of crime shows or cop shows. Lulu: Horror. Anlan: Horror. Basically if you are like me and you don't really fancy being depressed watching SVU and other similar types of TV show, I think this segment might be good for you. Lulu: So enough with the suspense, what is the TV pick that you are going to share with us today？ Anlan: I'm going to share a lovely TV pick for you called All Creatures Great and Small. Lulu: All Creatures Great and Small. 中文译名叫《万物生灵》, 还有把它直译为《万物既伟大又渺小》. We actually wrote an article about this, it has been very popular in China as well. Anlan: Yes, it's really popular in the UK, and also very popular in America as well apparently. Lulu: But for those who have never heard of it, could you give us the background？ Anlan: Right. So All Creatures Great and Small is a remake of an earlier TV show in the 1980s which actually I watched when I was growing up, based on the books of James Herriot. Lulu: James Herriot. Anlan: Yeah. James Herriot was a British vet or veterinary doctor, who became a writer. Lulu: Vet is an animal doctor. Anlan: Yes. Lulu: 兽医. And that book or this TV series is basically about his experience of being a vet. Anlan: Yeah, basically in a very unique part of the UK called Yorkshire. Lulu: 约克郡. You hear that a lot in obviously a lot of the TV shows relating to UK. But what is Yorkshire actually like？I personally have never been to Yorkshire. Anlan: Well, Yorkshire is a county in the North of England. It's really famous for the dales. Lulu: Dales? Anlan: Dales are… it’s a type of park, it's a type of countryside, and it's really beautiful. Lulu: Dales中文就是谷地. They're like valleys. Anlan: Yeah, they're very small valleys, you know. It's not like the Grand Canyon or anything like that. They're just very small… Lulu: Quaint little valleys. Anlan: Yeah, with lots of villages, lots of farms as well. Hence, why he is a vet. Lulu: When British people think of Yorkshire, do they automatically think of beautiful countryside？ Anlan: Partly. Yes. Another word for Yorkshire, another name for Yorkshire is God's own country, and that's something that Yorkshire people do actually like to say because they… Lulu: They're very proud of it. Anlan: They are very proud. It's a very beautiful part of the UK. Yorkshire people, they're also quite unique as well. There's a bit of a stereotype about them that they are very direct, very honest, actually sometimes bordering on rude or being a bit stubborn. Lulu: Probably like no nonsense type of people. Anlan: Exactly. But in reality a lot of Yorkshire people they're very down to earth, they’re also very friendly as well. There are also some stereotypes that they're quite frugal and tight with money. But I would say probably they're a little bit more careful because Yorkshire was always traditionally a slightly poorer area of the UK. Lulu: It's just what you have described just paints a picture very much like traditional small town, small villages that type of idea. And the TV show is basically about a vet in Yorkshire. Anlan: That's it. In the program, it's about him coming to Yorkshire and living and working with another vet there whose name is Siegfried Farnon. Lulu: Farnon. Anlan: Farnon hired Herriot as a vet. And Farnon is actually quite eccentric.

关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】获取全文稿噢~ National Day Special National Day 国庆日 -Celebrate the founding of the People’s Republic of China in 1949 Extended into a Golden Week Signature Elements 关键元素 -Pay tribute to national heroes at the Monument to the People’s Heroes 向人民英雄纪念碑致敬 -The flag-raising ceremony at Tian’anmen Square 天安门广场升旗仪式 -The guards marching -National anthem played by military band 军乐队奏国歌 -Festive decorations 节日装饰 -Military parade 阅兵式 -Live concerts 现场音乐会 -Firework shows and light shows 烟火表演和灯光秀 Patriotism 爱国主义 Feeling Patriotic 爱国之情油然而生 National day in other countries 其他国家的国庆日 USA – the Fourth of July Independence Day (the Fourth of July) is a federal holiday in the United States commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. Canada Day Most communities across the country will host organized celebrations for Canada Day, typically outdoor public events, such as parades, carnivals, festivals, barbecues, air and maritime shows, fireworks, and free musical concerts, as well as citizenship ceremonies. There is no standard mode of celebration for Canada Day. Australia Day Australia Day is the official National Day of Australia. Celebrated annually on 26 January, it marks the anniversary of the 1788 arrival of the First Fleet of British ships at Port Jackson, New South Wales, and the raising of the Flag of Great Britain at Sydney Cove. In the UK Britain has no unique National Day. It has a number of days of celebration which go largely uncelebrated. There are special dates related to patron saints (守护圣者): St George’s Day in England, St Andrew’s Day in Scotland, St David’s Day in Wales and St Patrick’s Day in Northern Ireland.

《小酒馆·大世界》-世界各处的文化和精彩，在小酒馆触手可得哦~ 欢迎关注公号【璐璐的英文小酒馆】，可以查看更多精彩内容，查看英语全文稿哦~ And talking about Prosecco being more popular in first tier cities in China especially how has the Prosecco sales in China grown in the past, let's say, five or ten years? Obviously, I know there is a pandemic, but before that what was the growth trajectory. Pre-pandemic we remember in 2019, we were doing quite well, around 20, 25% of growth. It was really good. The market was very much matured, but still a lot of people were actually picking prosecco, or especially hotels and restaurants as a free floor products or also cocktail products. For example, spritz took over pretty much in the Shanghai quite well, yeah. So it…we’re quite happy with the trend. Actually you talk about spritz, do you think the increasing popularity of spirits or just using Prosecco to mix a cocktail? Do you think that trend contributed to the growth in Prosecco sales? I do believe that is a factor to count in because definitely if you want to make the real spitz, the real spritz is made of prosecco obviously. So if the people are actually interested to try the spritz and they like it, of course restaurants, hotels, bars, they need more prosecco to do that. So it's a very, very connected factor to count in. Okay. And Mikelino, what do you see? You mostly sell to end consumers or also to business. Well, business is still more than 50% of my market mix, of my sales mix. And consumers are growing because there is also shortening of the supply chain. So the people like to go more direct in a direct source, so that if you are the importer, they like to talk to you directly more and more. This also helps the growth of the consumption and the trade. My trend is a little bit different, I'm more connected to the micro texture of the market, for example, I was less influenced by the recent events of the pandemic. I heard that your end consumers buying more. My end consumers are buying more, yes. We are doing well, I mean, just the only channel is growing, so the others are stable. I see. The prosecco is also very connected to the restaurant channels, so actually what we hope is that people can join more and more the restaurant life and this will help the sales to pick up again, especially like this the mixology with the cocktails what you mentioned. It's a driver for prosecco, it's a driver for many other drinks; it’s the driver for the wine, the icon consumption. It's a big, big movement in China now. And bringing in the social aspect of having that drink, Prosecco is a social drink, unlike perhaps some other drinks where you can imagine yourself just staying at home, having a little bit of scotch on your own, but prosecco is more like you know you talk and you drink that imagery. And then I know that you're both involved in a lot of events. You probably also hosted or organized lots of different events to promote wine or to prosecco. At these vents, how were you say collaborate with organizations like prosecco DOC Consortium like Casa Prosecco? How does it work? It works. There's a huge part is the communication that Casa Prosecco and Consortium does in China through like a program like this one or the publications. And then there’s a lot of offline events that involve… could be for consumers or could be for professional, depends. These are involving also brands. This is the perfect way to go on developing the market. You have to, as Matteo say that you have to educate people, and to educate the people, you have to open those bottles, you have to let them taste wines, to try more wines, and start recognizing the differences. This is for consumers, even professional people are, in the very end, they also are consumers. So knowing the characteristics, so when I go for events, when I participate in events organized by Prosecco, I go and I try different kind of wine, I try maybe dryer or less dryer profile aromatic profiles of the prosecco.