Name: 拿鐵稅"--對咖啡杯徵稅？英國廣播公司新聞回顧 ('Latte levy' - a tax on coffee cups? BBC News Review)
Uploaded: 2025-05-23T04:58:49.000Z
Duration: 10 min

來自 BBC Learning English 的新聞回顧。

Hello and welcome to News Review, the programme where we show you how to use the language from the latest news stories in your everyday English. Hi, I'm Neil. Joining me today is Catherine.

大家好，歡迎收看《新聞回顧》，在這個節目中，我們將向您展示如何在日常英語中使用最新新聞報道中的語言。大家好，我是尼爾。今天加入我的是凱瑟琳。

Today's story is about something we like to hold but we don't seem to care when we throw it away.

今天的故事是關於我們喜歡拿著的東西，但當我們扔掉它時卻似乎並不在意。

OK, very interesting. Let's find out some more from this BBC News bulletin.

好吧，非常有趣。讓我們從 BBC 新聞簡報中瞭解更多資訊。

A committee of MPs has said it wants an extra 25p added to hot drinks sold in disposable cups.

一個國會議員委員會表示，希望對用一次性杯子出售的熱飲額外加收 25 便士。

An estimated 2.5 billion coffee cups are thrown away in the UK every year.

據估計，英國每年要扔掉 25 億個咖啡杯。

The Commons Environmental Audit Committee says the levy would be used to improve

下議院環境審計委員會表示，徵稅將用於改善

Britain's recycling and reprocessing facilities.

So, coffee story today. Now, lots of people all over the world like a cup of coffee in the morning. A lot of people buy one from a coffee shop and they take it away with them and that coffee often comes in a disposable paper cup. Now, I'm today using a nice plastic reusable cup.

那麼，今天就來說說咖啡的故事。現在，全世界有很多人喜歡在早上喝咖啡。很多人從咖啡店買一杯咖啡帶走，而咖啡通常裝在一次性紙杯裡。我今天用的是一個漂亮的可重複使用塑料杯。

British politicians are concerned that in Britain we throw 2.5 billion coffee cups away every year.

英國政界人士擔心，在英國，我們每年要扔掉 25 億個咖啡杯。

So, they're suggesting that we should all have to pay about 25p for every disposable coffee cup we use. Now, that's about 35 US cents or 30 euro cents and they're saying that that extra money can be used to improve recycling facilities.

是以，他們建議我們每使用一個一次性咖啡杯，就必須支付大約 25 便士。現在，這大約是 35 美分或 30 歐分，他們說這些額外的錢可以用來改善回收設施。

OK, well, you've been looking at this story on the various news websites and picked out three words and expressions being used that we can use in our everyday English. What are they?

好了，你已經在各大新聞網站上瀏覽了這則新聞，並找出了三個我們可以在日常英語中使用的單詞和表達方式。它們是什麼？

OK, so we have today, in a bid to… we have combat and we're looking at whiz kids.

好了，我們今天的目標是......我們有戰鬥，我們正在尋找奇才。

In a bid to… combat and whiz kids. OK, so your first headline please.

為了......戰鬥和奇才。好了，請說出你的第一個標題

OK, so we are going to BBC News. The headline is

好了，我們現在來看 BBC 新聞。標題是

Latte levy of 25p urged by MPs in bid to cut cup waste.

國會議員敦促徵收 25 便士的拿鐵咖啡稅，以減少杯子浪費。

OK, so we've got in a bid to, meaning in an attempt to achieve something. But before we look at that, we've got this media expression. Latte levy. Latte levy. So, a levy is like a tax or a payment. Latte is a kind of coffee with milk and it really kind of summarises this coffee to go, this takeaway coffee where you buy milky coffee. So, latte levy means the coffee cup tax and it's a lovely headline-friendly phrase.

好了，我們有了 "爭取"（in a bid to），意思是 "試圖"（in an attempt to achieve something）。但在看這個之前，我們有一個媒體表達：拿鐵徵稅Latte levy.所以，"徵稅 "就像是一種稅收或付款。拿鐵咖啡是一種加奶的咖啡，它概括了外帶咖啡，也就是你買牛奶咖啡的地方。是以，"拿鐵徵稅 "意味著咖啡杯稅，這是一個很好的標題用語。

It's got alliteration. It's got two words that start with the same letter and headline writers love that.

有典故。它有兩個以相同字母開頭的詞，標題撰寫者喜歡這樣。

Love it, love it. And yeah, it just sounds great. Latte levy.

愛死它了，愛死它了。是的，聽起來很棒。拿鐵李維

OK, well we're looking at in a bid to. First thing to say is that in my definition,

好吧，我們正在研究競標。首先要說明的是，在我的定義中、

I said in a bid to, but in the headline it says in bid to. So, is the BBC wrong? Have they made a mistake?

我說的是 "競標"，但標題上寫的是 "競標"。那麼，BBC 錯了嗎？他們是不是搞錯了？

Not on this occasion. So, it's headline writing and as we know in headlines they often don't bother with small words, especially articles – a, an, the. Also, prepositions often disappear.

這次沒有。是以，這是標題寫作，而我們知道，在標題中，他們通常不會使用小詞，尤其是冠詞--a、an、the。此外，介詞也經常消失。

So, in bid to, the long form is in a bid to, but they've left it out.

所以，在競標中，長表是在競標中，但他們把它漏掉了。

Because I thought bids were connected to money, trying to buy something.

因為我以為競標與金錢有關，是為了買東西。

Well, yes. Yeah, if you go on your online auction site and you're trying to buy something and you say I'm going to bid £1, somebody else comes on and says I'm going to bid £1.20. The bid is the act of offering money in an attempt to buy something. And it's this idea of trying to do something, which is the idea of bid. And this bid is they're trying to cut cup waste. So, bid isn't always about money. It's an attempt to do something.

嗯，是的。是的，如果你上了在線拍賣網站，想買一件東西，你說我出價 1 英鎊，別人就說我出價 1.2 英鎊。出價就是出錢買東西的行為。這種 "試圖做某事 "的想法就是 "出價"。這次競標是為了減少杯子浪費。所以，出價並不總是為了錢。它是一種做事的嘗試。

OK. Now, this is what we call journalese, isn't it? It's something that you'll see written in newspapers and in the media. You wouldn't necessarily say it. So, if I came into work and said, oh, I'm tidying my desk in a bid to have a cleaner office.

好吧這就是我們常說的 "新聞術語"，對吧？你會在報紙和媒體上看到這樣的文字你不一定會說出來。所以，如果我上班的時候說，哦，我在整理我的桌子，希望辦公室更整潔。

Well, I'd love it if you did, but I won't hold my breath. But yeah, you wouldn't say that. You'd say I'm in the hope of or because I'm trying to…

如果你這麼做了，我會很高興的，但我不會屏住呼吸。但你不會這麼說的你會說我是希望或者因為我想...

So I can, yeah. So, the everyday phrase would be something a lot more everyday, basically. But in a bid too. A bid is an attempt and you see it in newspaper headlines in particular because it's nice and short.

所以我可以那麼，日常用語基本上就是更日常的東西了。但在競標中也是如此。出價是一種嘗試，你會在報紙標題中看到它，因為它又短又漂亮。

OK, great. Let's have a look at our next headline, please.

好的，很好。請看下一個標題。

OK, Financial Times. MPs call for 25p latte levy to combat UK disposable cup waste.

好的，《金融時報》。國會議員呼籲徵收 25 便士拿鐵咖啡稅，以減少英國一次性杯子的浪費。

Combat – try to stop something bad happening. Now, I thought combat was connected to fighting, war, that kind of thing.

戰鬥--試圖阻止壞事發生。現在，我以為 "戰鬥 "與打架、戰爭之類的事情有關。

You're not wrong. Combat means fighting and you have it as a noun, as a verb, as an adjective.

你沒說錯。Combat 意味著戰鬥，它既是名詞，也是動詞和形容詞。

You can have combat equipment, you can go into combat, you can say troops, armies are combating each other. But the idea in a headline is that something is really difficult and challenging. It's not going to be easy, but it's a serious thing that they really want to happen.

你可以擁有作戰裝備，你可以投入戰鬥，你可以說部隊、軍隊正在相互交戰。但標題的意思是，有些事情真的很困難，很有挑戰性。這並不容易，但這是他們非常希望發生的一件嚴肅的事情。

So it's used in… you could change the word combat in this headline to fight and it would be the same idea. It's a difficult task and it's going to require some effort.

是以，它被用在......你可以把標題中的戰鬥一詞改成搏鬥，意思是一樣的。這是一項艱鉅的任務，需要付出一些努力。

OK. Again, probably not something we would use if we were just chatting.

好的。同樣，如果我們只是哈拉，可能也不會用到它。

Probably not, no. Your clean desk scenario, you'd probably say I want to be more tight. No,

可能不會。如果你想把辦公桌收拾得乾乾淨淨，你可能會說我想更緊湊一些。不會

I'm combating mess in the office would be a little bit overdramatic.

在辦公室裡治理髒亂差有點誇張。

Exactly. We would say I want to do something about the mess or stop being messy.

沒錯。我們會說，我想為亂糟糟的局面做點什麼，或者不再亂糟糟了。

Pretty much, yes. Again, combat. It's nice. It's great in the headline because it's dramatic, it's eye-catching, it conjures up a really good image. But for everyday English, something less extreme. OK. Well, in our third headline, we've got something you could use in your everyday English.

差不多，是的。再說一遍，戰鬥。很好用在標題中很好，因為它很戲劇化，很醒目，能讓人聯想到非常好的畫面。但對於日常英語來說，就沒那麼極端了。好的那麼，在我們的第三個標題中，你可以在日常英語中使用。

Yes, you could indeed. So we're going to the independent entrepreneurs and start-up

是的，你確實可以。所以，我們要對獨立創業者和初創企業

Whiz Kids should take note of the business opportunity in the Latte Levy.

奇思妙想的孩子們應該注意到拿鐵李維的商機。

Whiz Kids. Young people who are very clever and successful.

奇才。非常聰明和成功的年輕人。

Yes, a great little phrase this one. Let's break it down. We've got the word whiz first. Now,

是的，這是一個很好的小短語。我們來分解一下。我們先來看看 "奇思妙想 "這個詞。現在

Neil, I know you can do a really good example of a whiz.

尼爾，我知道你能舉出一個非常好的奇才例子。

Right. So something moving really fast and the noise you made was this kind of almost cartoon noise that you hear when something goes really quickly. That noise and that movement is known as a whiz and it's onomatopoeic. It sounds like you say it like it as a sound. It's a word that sounds like the sound it means. So this idea of fast movement is really important in this. If we then look at kids, we're not talking about real children. We're talking about young adults.

沒錯所以有東西在快速移動 你發出的聲音就像是卡通片裡的聲音 當有東西快速移動時你就會聽到這種聲音這種聲音和動作被稱為 "噝噝" 是擬聲詞聽起來就像你把它說成一種聲音。這個詞聽起來就像它所代表的聲音。是以，快速運動的概念非常重要。如果我們再看看孩子，我們說的不是真正的孩子。我們說的是年輕人。

So this fast moving young adult refers to somebody who's clever, who's dynamic, who's motivated, who's often very successful, often in business. So this headline is saying that young people who are dynamic, successful, creative can make money because everyone's going to need non-disposable coffee cups.

是以，"快速發展的年輕人 "指的是聰明、充滿活力、積極進取的人，他們往往非常成功，通常從事商業活動。是以，這個標題是說，有活力、成功、有創造力的年輕人可以賺錢，因為每個人都需要非一次性咖啡杯。

Yeah. OK. Mark Zuckerberg, for example, would be an example of a whiz kid.

好的好吧比如馬克-扎克伯格，就是一個奇才的例子。

Back in the day. In his 30s now, isn't he?

回到過去他現在不是 30 多歲嗎？

OK. Well, before we have a recap of our vocabulary, we have our Facebook challenge. We've just been talking about the word whiz kid, meaning a very clever and successful young person. There is another word we use in English that has a similar meaning, but we've borrowed it from German. It's a German loanword, as we call them. What is it? Is it...

好的在回顧詞彙之前，我們先來挑戰一下 "臉書"。我們剛剛談到了 "奇才 "這個詞，意思是非常聰明和成功的年輕人。我們在英語中使用的另一個詞也有類似的意思，但我們是從德語中借用過來的。我們稱之為 "德語藉詞"。是什麼呢？是...

a. Hinterland b. Wunderkind or c. Zeitgeist

a.腹地 b. Wunderkind 或 c. 時代精神

So how is our German following on Facebook?

我們德國人在 Facebook 上的關注度如何？

Pretty good. Not bad at all, actually. We've had quite a few responses.

相當不錯。其實還不錯。我們收到了不少回覆。

We had a lot of people saying answer b, which was the correct answer.

很多人都說答案 b 是正確答案。

We had Roman Lavrov, who said wunderkind. In Russian, we also have such a word.

我們有羅曼-拉夫羅夫，他說的是 wunderkind。在俄語中，我們也有這樣一個詞。

Bak Hoang also got it right. And Felix Bonner said wunderkind. Greetings from Germany.

Bak Hoang 也說對了。費利克斯-博納說他是 "奇才"。來自德國的問候。

Brilliant. OK. So, just a recap of the vocabulary, please.

真聰明好的那麼，請簡要介紹一下詞彙。

Yeah. We had in a bid to, in an attempt to achieve something.

是的我們曾經為了，為了達到某種目的。

Combat – try to stop something bad happening.

Whiz kids – young people who are very clever and successful.

奇才--非常聰明和成功的年輕人。

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