华尔街中级英语Lesson 65

Let’s talk about the customers’ tastes. What’re the most popular drinks here?
        Well, it’s mostly a man’s pub. Although we try and make it a family pub, it’s typically a man’s pub, which means they come in for their smoke in the evening, a pint¹ of lager, a pint of bitter. That is our main trait².
        Although we are starting to get a few more continental³ beers, we start to sell a few more to the youngsters⁴.
        So women have different tastes, then.
        Strangely enough, no. We find that women are quite happy to drink a half of whatever their husbands or boyfriends are drinking. They’re quite content with that. A lot of pubs now are going towards becoming more like a restaurant. Do you serve food here?
We haven’t really got the demand here for food, so, we’re just purely⁵, a bar, snacks, especially when the chaps finish work, they come in after work we are quite content to serve them the basic pub food. But we’re not in the area here to be restaurant type pub at all now.
        It’s very difficult in the trade these days, because to have live music entertainment, you’ve had to have public entertainment license⁶. We would like to have Karaoke, but unfortunately, we’ve been stopped from having Karaoke because we haven’t got the license.
        What about other entertainment?
        Well, we do a lot of our own entertainment. We have theme nights. We might have wild west theme film nights. We might have 1940’s film nights, something like that.
       I know you mentioned this was originally very much a man’s pub, and you’re trying to move it more towards a family pub. What lies ahead for you in the future?
Again, it’s a changing industry, my vision of the future, my own particular pub is that we will be more family-orientated. When I say family-orientated, I’m not talking so much about children, because I still don’t think personally that the pub is the place for children. I believe a pub should be somewhere you can come and chat if they want to. They can join in with dancing, to a record, or tape if they want to. They can play darts⁷ if they want to, or they can just sit perhaps in the back if they want to.  I want choice, somewhere people can come to have choice.
If someone wants to become a publican, what advice would you give?
You’ve got to be prepared to work very hard. It’s one of the first things I would say. And as I’ve already repeated you must have a partner who is also willing to work hard as well. You do lose a lot of family life yourself. But the reward can be great, not necessarily financially, but mentally the rewards can be very great.

1 pint   

n.品脱

参考例句：

• I'll have a pint of beer and a packet of crisps, please.我要一品脱啤酒和一袋炸马铃薯片。
• In the old days you could get a pint of beer for a shilling.从前，花一先令就可以买到一品脱啤酒。

2 trait   

n.显著特点，特性

参考例句：

• Creativity is a human trait.创造力是人类的一种特性。
• Repose of manner is an estimable trait in a horse.神情镇定是一匹马可贵的特质。

3 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。

4 youngsters   

n.孩子( youngster的名词复数 )；少年；青年；年轻人

参考例句：

• We followed the youngsters at a more sedate pace. 我们跟在年轻人后面，步子稍慢一点。
• The camp is for youngsters aged 8 to 14. 这次夏令营是为8至14岁的少年儿童安排的。

5 purely   

adv.纯粹地，完全地

参考例句：

• I helped him purely and simply out of friendship.我帮他纯粹是出于友情。
• This disproves the theory that children are purely imitative.这证明认为儿童只会单纯地模仿的理论是站不住脚的。

6 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

7 darts   

n.掷飞镖游戏；飞镖( dart的名词复数 )；急驰，飞奔v.投掷，投射( dart的第三人称单数 )；向前冲，飞奔

参考例句：

• His darts trophy takes pride of place on the mantelpiece. 他将掷镖奖杯放在壁炉顶上最显著的地方。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• I never saw so many darts in a bodice! 我从没见过紧身胸衣上纳了这么多的缝褶！ 来自《简明英汉词典》