时间:2018-12-12 作者:英语课 分类:华尔街中级英语


英语课

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 pint 1 of lager, a pint of bitter. That is our main trait 2.
        Although we are starting to get a few more continental 3 beers, we start to sell a few more to the youngsters 4.
        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 purely 5, 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 license 6. 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 darts 7 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
n.品脱
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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》
学英语单词
aegirine grorudite
aid-to-navigation
Alexandria ad Issum
Alytus
anocheilon
boat amphibian
bonfim
Bucksburn
C.R.M (confinement of radioactive materials)
cacatua moluccensis
call a spade a spade
canolas
case histories
cesarian sections
chewinks
chime movement
coecomycin
color appraisal
completing production order
condition of compatible deformation
consummatory behavior
controlling factor
curad
cuts up
dancing queen
Dendrobium scoriarum
detomaso
dibenzofurans
dyeless
eichberg
epanutin
Epipactis palustris
esdraelon, plain of
Estrema
executive support system
fedpol
fin-tube heat exchanger
Flos Calendulae
forequarter amputation
forteens
ghost orchid
gool
Haakon III Sverresson
hailse
halurgist
harp seals
hemato-aerometer
higher-risks
Honey Dew melon
hyperheparinemia
indigenousspecies
indigo paper
innovative ability
integrated tool
intermodal
Kerr-Newman black hole
Lakathah
lift trailer
low-density beam
luterell
maha-bharata
maximum propulsive efficiency
mechanical refrigerator
neaps
Net-planting
oestruation
Ormsjö
osting
overprovokes
patronaging
pebble-dashing
pervestigated
phosphorous pentoxide
pitfighter
plicatula plicata
potentilla multifida l.
ppramindole
preproduction approval
protocol hierarchy
provinciating
rape camp
regiven
riha
ROIH
runde
scrabbles
securities sale
shoot a round
sky background
St-Quentin, Pte.de
stadle
Straussler
streak-backed antshrikes
survival training
The outsider sees the best of the game.
tonotopy
topeng (java)
transglucosidase
turnon
undee
water source selection
waxahachie