英国流行的心形糖果

 【背景介绍】

在英国，从60年代到80年代，只要花1－2便士就可以在小店里买到漂亮的糖果，所以在英国又叫便士糖果。许多甜品店都会在柜台的托盘上摆放各式种样的糖果，多达20个不同种类。这些糖果的名字听起来都很有趣，形状各异，还成为游乐场的收藏品。

听听英国人回忆他们在小时候如何选择糖果...

What are penny sweets?

In the 60s , 70s and 80s it was common for sweets to be sold individually in shops, each sweet costing a penny or two, hence the name penny sweets.

Many sweet shops had a tray on the counter displaying all the different kinds of sweets - maybe up to 20 different kinds of sweets on view.

The sweets often had interesting sounding names and shapes and many became playground favourites. 

Pocket money was often spent on a careful selection of penny sweets and many a shopkeeper was irritated by the length of time it took the youngsters to make their choices.

Examples of penny sweets

Black Jacks¹ – aniseed flavoured chews which would stain your tongue inky black 

Love Hearts – a packet of fruit flavoured sweets each with a romantic message written on it such as ‘Kiss me’, ‘Hug me’, ‘Forever yours’

Flumps – vanilla² flavoured marshmallow strips

Flying Saucers – shaped like a flying saucer and filled with fizzy sherbet 

Traffic Light Lolly – a round candy on a stick that would change colour from red to yellow to green as you licked it.

Sherbet Fountain – a cylinder³ filled with sherbet with a stick of liquorice. To eat the sherbet you would need to lick the liquorice stick, dip it into the sherbet, then lick it again. 

Fruit Salad – sticky pineapple and raspberry flavoured chews.

1 jacks   

n.抓子游戏；千斤顶( jack的名词复数 )；（电）插孔；[电子学]插座；放弃

参考例句：

• Hydraulic jacks under the machine produce the movement. 是机器下面的液压千斤顶造成的移动。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The front end is equipped with hydraulic jacks used for grade adjustment. 前瑞安装有液压千斤顶用来调整坡度。 来自辞典例句

2 vanilla   

n.香子兰，香草

参考例句：

• He used to love milk flavoured with vanilla.他过去常爱喝带香草味的牛奶。
• I added a dollop of vanilla ice-cream to the pie.我在馅饼里加了一块香草冰激凌。

3 cylinder   

n.圆筒，柱(面)，汽缸

参考例句：

• What's the volume of this cylinder?这个圆筒的体积有多少？
• The cylinder is getting too much gas and not enough air.汽缸里汽油太多而空气不足。