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The pursuit of a healthier lifestyle among the young is now a trend, rather than a fad. Demand for alcohol is slumping as a result A century after Prohibition, drinking is going out of fashion
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Young people are drinking less alcohol
A century after Prohibition, drinking is going out of fashion
Last week Xinhua, the state-run news agency, said that the Songzhu Temple and the nearby Zhizhu Temple were being used as clubs and private restaurants, despite new regulations barring private clubs from public sites. Those comments were widely carried in the Chinese state news media and some foreign news outlets, including The New York Times.
上周，官方通讯社新华社报道称，尽管新规定禁止在公共场所开设私人会所，但嵩祝寺及附近的智珠寺已经变成会所和私人餐厅。中国官方媒体及包括《纽约时报》在内的一些外国新闻机构对此进行了广泛报道。
Shadow of a Doubt
By MAUREEN DOWD
A bewildering time in bizarro world: all the sides are scrambled as the shadow of Iraq looms over Syria.
QUOTATION OF THE DAY
"It is still good advice that, if you feel impaired, don't drive. But if you feel fine, you might be impaired."
DR. RONALD FARKAS, of the Food and Drug Administration, on new scrutiny of the effects of sleep aids on daytime drivers.
Moscow Finds Missing Ship,
But Is Silent on How It Vanished
Russia said it has found a ship that went missing after being attacked in the Baltic Sea last month, but the Kremlin released no details that would explain the ship's bizarre disappearance.
fad とは【意味】一時的な熱中,気まぐれな熱狂... 【例文】
Pronunciation: /ˈaʊtlɛt /
Definition of outlet in English:
NOUN
2.2A shop that sells goods made by a particularmanufacturer at discounted prices:a designer outlet[ AS MODIFIER] : an outlet store
adjective
1 Someone who is missing has disappeared:
Her father has been missing since September 1992.
UK The girl went missing during a family outing to Mount Snowdon.
2 describes soldiers or military vehicles that have not returned from fighting in a war but are not known with total certainty to be dead or destroyed:
He was listed as missing in action.
3 describes something that cannot be found because it is not where it should be:
The burglars have been arrested but the jewellery is still missing.
When did you realise that the money was missing from your account?
impaired
Syllabification: (im·paired)
Pronunciation: /imˈpe(ə)rd/
methuselah
(meh-THOO-zuh-luh)
noun:
1. An extremely old man.
2. An oversized wine bottle holding approx. 6 liters.
Etymology
After biblical figure Methuselah, who was said to have lived 969 years.
Usage
"Five restaurant years would be about equivalent to 30 human years, so Bambino's, which has been around since 1983, is a veritable Methuselah among eateries." — A.C. Stevens; Why Cook Tonight?; The Boston Herald; Feb 11, 2001.
"Meet Frank Ahern, the Methuselah of Seattle high-school coaches, a revered urban legend in his second half-century of helping city youth." — Craig Smith; A Coach For The Ages; The Seattle Times; Feb 27, 2000.
《中英對照讀新聞》Blind French eaterie seeks to conquer New York看不見的法國食肆企圖征服紐約
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A French restaurant where diners cannot see what they are eating, often spill their wine and must conduct conversations while staring into pitch darkness has proved such a success in Europe that it is making a foray into the Americas.
一家食客看不到自己在吃什麼、常會把酒灑出來、要在一片漆黑中交談的法國餐廳，在歐洲已經大獲成功，現在也將進軍美國。
After expanding from Paris into London, Moscow, Barcelona and St. Petersburg, the "Dans Le Noir" chain, staffed by blind waiters, will open an outlet in the neon-lit tourist hub of New York’s Times Square this month.
從巴黎擴展到倫敦、莫斯科、巴塞隆納、聖彼得堡之後，這家由失明者擔任服務生的「在黑暗中」連鎖餐廳，本月將在紐約霓虹燈通明的旅遊中樞時報廣場開設分店。
What seemed at the outset to be just a bizarre fad, has proved surprisingly popular. "When I started this business, everyone thought I was crazy," Edouard de Broglie, 49, CEO of the chain’s owner, Ethik Investment, and founder of the restaurant chain, told Reuters.
一開始看似古怪的風潮，現在卻是出奇地受歡迎。49歲的執行長德布羅懿告訴路透：「我開這家餐廳時，大家都覺得我瘋了。」
Dans Le Noir, French for "In the Dark", is not the first restaurant of its kind, although it has spread the fastest, having served more than a million people at its restaurants and temporary venues in Warsaw, Geneva and Bangkok.
「在黑暗中」不是全球第一間類似的餐廳，不過卻是擴張最快的一家，造訪其分店以及華沙、日內瓦與曼谷等臨時分店的顧客已經超過100萬人。
Dans Le Noir uses visually impaired waiters to guide patrons past heavy black curtains into a pitch-dark dining room where they are served a surprise two or three-course menu.（Reuters）
「在黑暗中」僱用失明服務生引導顧客穿越厚重的黑色布簾，進入漆黑的用餐區，在那裡，服務生為顧客奉上2到3道驚奇餐點。（路透）
新聞辭典
pitch darkness：名詞，漆黑一片，也寫成pitch blackness。例句：Suddenly the lights went out, and the house was left in pitch darkness.（燈光突然熄了，房子陷入一片漆黑。）pitch-dark/black為形容詞，例如：a moonless pitch-black night（沒有月光的漆黑夜晚。）
make a foray：片語，嘗試。例句：She made a brief foray into acting before becoming a teacher.（她當老師之前，短暫試過演戲。）
outset：名詞，開端。例句：I told him at/from the outset I wasn’t interested.（我一開始就告訴他我沒興趣。）
| Hey, Syrah Sister: Rock Band Offers Wine Club to Fans |
| By STUART ELLIOTT |
In a world of fading record companies and distribution outlets, the rock group Train starts a wine club to reach like-minded fans.
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like-minded
(līk'mīn'dĭd)
adj.
Of the same turn of mind.
bizarre
Pronunciation: /bɪˈzɑː/
Translate bizarre | into French | into German | into Italian | into Spanish adjective
Origin:
mid 17th century: from French, from Italian bizzarro 'angry', of unknown originbizarro
Pronunciation: /bɪˈzɑːrəʊ/
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