苏格兰打卤面（强化听力系列）Marmalade 橘子酱
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Marmalade 橘子酱
Helen: Hello, welcome to BBC Learning English. I’m Helen.
Oliver: 大家好，我是 Oliver.
Helen: In today’s programme, we are focusing on food.
Oliver: 吃的？ Mm, that sounds good. 什么样的好吃的？
Helen: Would you like to try toast with marmalade?
Oliver: Yes, I don’t mind a bit of that. 大家可能对果酱 jam 都非常熟悉，
marmalade 和果酱很相似，但它是另一类水果做成的，比如橙子，我们这儿
说的橙子是大个儿的，皮儿比较厚，不好拨的，所以也叫做橙子酱，橘子酱。
Helen: Now, not all oranges can be made into marmalade.
Oliver: 是哪种特别的橙子呢？
Helen: It has to be bitter oranges and the season for making them is a
short one, usually from mid January to mid February.
Oliver: 从一月中旬到二月中旬，这生产期可是够短的。
Helen: Yes, it’s only 4 weeks. Let’s follow Judy Merry from BBC Radio 4.
She’s on a marmalade discovery journey.
Oliver: 太棒了，我对 marmalade 的历史还真是挺感兴趣的，首先 Judy 想采访坐
落在曼城的 Duerr’s 公司负责人马克先生。
Helen: They have just celebrated their 125th
anniversary by creating a
very special jar of marmalade.
Oliver: Helen 我倒是想知道这罐特制的 Marmalade 值多少钱呢？
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Here is the world’s most expensive marmalade ever made. It’s just about a kilo,
which is two jars worth. (Judy: And what’s the price tag?) This jar is actually
worth £5000.
Oliver: 什么？一罐橘子酱就值 5000 英镑？
Helen: Yeah, you heard it right. Mark said the price tag for this jar of
marmalade is 5000 sterling pounds.
Oliver: 但是到底有什么呢？难道是金子做的不成？
Helen: Gold? Who knows? It’s possible.
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Judy: So what exactly is in the marmalade to make it so expensive?
Mark: There is the world’s most expensive whisky in there, the oranges are bitter
oranges from Seville – so they’re not like the oranges people are used to eating.
There’s some Champagne in there which is a very exclusive Pol Roger, Cuvee
Winston Churchill, and actual edible gold leaf in there.
Oliver: So my guess was right. 它这么值钱的原因，果然是在里面加了金叶。
Helen: Apparently the gold leaf is edible. Edible means you can eat it.
Oliver: Edible 可食用的。其它值钱的成分还包括顶级的威士忌酒。
Helen: Whiskey, Scotland produces some of the finest whiskeys in the
world.
Oliver: 还有那种特别的带有苦味的桔子，这也是非常重要的。
Helen: Seville oranges, we’ll hear more about them later.
Oliver: 别忘了还有香槟酒。
Helen: Champagne, a very expensive sparkling wine from the Champagne
region in France.
Oliver: 而且是特制的香槟。
Helen: Exclusive, not something that you can find off the supermarket
shelves. It’s expensive and rare.
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Judy: So what exactly is in the marmalade to make it so expensive?
Mark: There is the world’s most expensive whisky in there, the oranges are bitter
oranges from Seville – so they’re not like the oranges people are used to eating.
There’s some Champagne in there which is a very exclusive Pol Roger, Cuvee
Winston Churchill, and actual edible gold leaf in there.
Oliver: 不过我还是比较想知道为什么要在里面加金叶呢？
Insert
Because it sparkles in the light, particularly with the crystal glass. It just melts on
your tongue, it’s quite strange.
Helen: The reason Mark gave for adding real edible gold leaf to the most
expensive jar of marmalade in the world is because it sparkles in
the light.
Oliver: And that’s it? 因为金子能反光，而且可以在光线下闪闪发亮。
Helen: And the sparkling effect is enhanced with the crystal glass.
Oliver: 水晶杯子 crystal glass.
Helen: The quality of this particular marmalade is superb; it just melts on
your tongue.
Oliver: Tongue 舌头，这种 marmalade 能让你体会在舌尖融化的感觉。
Insert
Because it sparkles in the light, particularly with the crystal glass. It just melts on
your tongue, it’s quite strange.
Helen: Judy has also been talking to food historian Elizabeth Luard about
the origin of marmalade.
Oliver: The origin of something 的意思是什么东西的开始，从哪里开始的。
Helen: And according to Elizabeth, the root of the word “marmalade”
actually came from Portugal.
Oliver: Marmalade 这个词最早的来源是葡萄牙，那marmalade 是什么时候传到英
国来的呢？
Insert
It probably didn’t appear till about 1660 in some form, at which point it was a
mixture of apple juice and mashed up oranges and was a paste that you could cut
with a knife – you know, the development from a thick quince paste into adding
other things to it – into the use of a gelable preserve, which is based on apple
pectin.
Helen: 1660 could be the year when marmalade arrived in the UK.
Oliver: 1660年， 差不多是 350 年前了。
Helen: And initially it was a mixture of apple juice and mashed up oranges.
Oliver: 在那个年代， marmalade 的样子和现在看起来有些不一样。那个时候它更
过的是苹果果汁和捣碎的桔子的混合物。
Helen: Mash is a verb; it means to make something into a paste.
Oliver: 时光流转， marmalade 的制作配方也在改变，之后变成了现在的果冻样的
酱了。
Helen: And what made the marmalade more jelly like is a chemical called
pectin from fruits such as apples.
Oliver: Ok Helen, that’s a bit too technical for me. 我想知道的是为什么最好的
marmalade 都是来自 Seville, 为什么需要用有苦味的桔子呢？
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Why are they particularly good for marmalade? A very strong fragrance, excellent
flavour and I should imagine there’s a very high pectin, so it would make a good
set.
Helen: They have a very strong fragrance.
Oliver: 浓烈的香味。
Helen: Strong fragrance. They also have excellent flavour.
Oliver: 口味非常棒。
Helen: Excellent flavour. And they also have a high pectin content, so the
marmalade would set well.
Oliver: 而橙子里本身含有大量的胶制,可以让果酱更容易凝固 set. Shall we get
back to Mark at Duerr? I think he’s got some interesting stories to
tell us.
Insert
Here at Duerr’s we buy 2,000 tonnes of oranges from Seville every year and
produce 20 million jars of marmalade.
Helen: Wow, that’s a lot of oranges and marmalade.
Oliver: Mark’s 的公司每年要采购 2000 吨的苦味橙子，生产 2000 万瓶
marmalade.
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During the war, the boats carrying the oranges from Seville were allowed through
and the Germans believed there were some secret element in the orange that
was helping them make bombs. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried it, but if you
disturb the skin of an orange, you get the zest coming out – and that’s actually
very flammable. So there’s all sorts of bizarre stories!
Helen: Sounds bizarre.
Oliver: Bizarre 奇怪的。难以致信的。 Mark 讲的故事发生在二战期间。
Helen: Britain was fighting against Germany.
Oliver: 英国和德国是敌对双方。
Helen: But boats carrying the oranges from Seville in Spain were allowed
through.
Oliver: 但是战争并没有阻止从西班牙到英国的运输，而且德国人非常怀疑这些橙子的
用途。
Helen: That’s right, the Germans thought the oranges had special secret
elements in them and they were used to make bombs.
Oliver: Bombs, 炸弹，德国人以为英国人用这些橙子来制造炸弹。But how?
Helen: Apparently the zest from the oranges is flammable; it means it
could catch fire.
Oliver: Really? 如果橙子皮被挤压，从皮里面挤出的液体 the zest 就是易燃的，我
不知道，我想象不出用橙子可以制造炸弹。
Helen: Neither can I, but it’s a fun story to know.
Oliver: 今天的节目里，我们和你一起追踪一种英国著名的橙子果酱 marmalade 的
历史。
Helen: There are many famous names associated with marmalade.
Oliver: Marmalade 是英国传统食品，很多名人都非常喜欢它。
Insert
As well as Winston Churchill, Robert Scott is rumoured to have taken a tin to the
Antarctic with him on his famous expedition in 1911; and 1912 records show that
1300 jars were taken on board of Titanic by the very aptly named Miss Edwina
Trout; and then in 1958, Michael Bond created Paddington and of course we all
know he kept his marmalade sandwiches under his hat.
Helen: Winston Churchill, Britain’s wartime prime minister, was a big fan
of marmalade.
Oliver: Marmalade 的拥护者当中就包括著名的邱吉尔。
Helen: Also, the Antarctic explorer Robert Scott is also rumoured to have
taken a tin of marmalade with him to the South Pole.
Oliver: 有传闻说 1911 年探险家 Robert Scott 远征极地的时候还带了一听
marmalade 呢。
Helen: Also, records show that in 1912, 1300 jars of marmalade were
taken on board the Titanic by a lady called Edwina Trout. Trout is a
kind of fish, so she has a funny name.
Oliver: 真的？有位女士曾经带了 1300 罐 marmalade 登上泰坦尼克号。 That’s a
lot of marmalade for just one person.
Helen: And also, a cartoon character, called Paddington Bear, was created
by Michael Bond, and this bear always had a marmalade sandwich
under his hat.
Oliver: 不光是英国人喜欢 marmalade, 就连卡通人物也是， Paddington 小熊就是
其中之一。
Insert
As well as Winston Churchill, Robert Scott is rumoured to have taken a tin to the
Antarctic with him on his famous expedition in 1911; and 1912 records show that
1300 jars were taken on board of Titanic by the very aptly named Miss Edwina
Trout; and then in 1958, Michael Bond created Paddington and of course we all
know he kept his marmalade sandwiches under his hat.
Helen: It seems that although Seville oranges originated from parts of
Spain and Portugal, it’s the Brits who have fully embraced
marmalade.
Oliver: 英国进口制造 marmalade 的原材料，然后再把制成的产品出口到世界各地。
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We exported it also in colonial times, great enormous quantities of it. We brought
in the oranges, cooked them up, jammed them back in a pot, and then sent them
off to India, and to Australia, and to, you know, south Africa; you could probably
do a great marmalade trail – you’d probably discover where we’d been.
Helen: The global popularity of marmalade happened during colonial
times.
Oliver: 殖民地时期 colonial times, 当时英国人遍布全球，而他们对这种传统英国食
品的渴望，就造成了 marmalade 被出口到世界各地。
Helen: What about the popularity of marmalade now?
Oliver: Helen 我觉得过去的二十年里，人们的口味已经发生了很多变化，我不知道现
在的年轻人是否还是和他们的父辈一样喜欢 marmalade.
Insert
No, sadly not, there are a lot of lapsed users. Children don’t like any bits in the
products, so they start eating shredless or jelly marmalade, which is made with
juice rather than whole fruit. And gradually as the consumer gets older they go to
fine cut, medium cut, thick cut, and when they have got no teeth left at all, they
seem to be eating very thick cut, which is a bit bizarre, but there you go.
Helen: You’re right Oliver. The popularity of marmalade has declined.
Oliver: Decline 下降。现在橙子酱的销量下降了不少，主要原因是孩子们不喜欢吃
marmalade 里面的桔子皮，他们更喜欢吃纯的 marmalade.
Helen: And smooth marmalade is made with juice, not whole fruit.
Oliver: 根据对桔子的加工方式不同， marmalade 也分为好几种不同的类型。
Helen: That’s right, you can have fine cut.
Oliver: 细条的。
Helen: Or medium cut.
Oliver: 中粗条的。
Helen: And thick cut.
Oliver: 粗条的。
Helen: Interestingly, Mark commented that thick cut seems to be popular
with elderly people with no teeth left.
Oliver: They must like the strong flavour of the oranges.
Helen: Well, it’s time for us to go. I hope you’ve enjoyed our marmalade
journey.
Oliver: 告诉你一个小窍门，吃 marmalade 最好的方式就是把它均匀的抹在烤热了
的面包片儿上。
Helen: Sounds delicious. So do join us next time for British Life from BBC
Learning English.
Oliver: 下次节目再见。
Helen: Bye bye.
Insert
Mm, you can really taste the whisky, you get a really powerful taste.
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