The english we speak(BBC教學)第149期:Swizz 騙局
William: Hello and welcome to The English We Speak. I'm William.
威廉：大家好，歡迎收聽地道英語節目。我是威廉。Yang Li: And I'm Yang Li.
楊莉：我是楊莉。William: You look very pleased today Li.
威廉：莉，你今天看上去很高興。
Yang Li: Well, I should be. I've just won a prize!
楊莉：嗯，我應該高興。我剛剛中獎了！William: Wow, great! What did you win?
威廉：哇，太棒了！你中了什麼獎？Yang Li: I don't know yet. I ate this bar of chocolate and it told me to phone a number to find out my prize.
楊莉：我還不知道呢。我剛纔吃了這塊巧克力，這裏說讓我打這個電話去領獎。William: Oh wow, cool. Let's call them.
威廉：哦，哇，真酷。我們來打電話吧。Yang Li: OK.
楊莉：好的。Welcome to the Choccy Choc Chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.
歡迎撥打 Choccy Choc Chocolate獎品熱線。請不要掛斷，您馬上就會知道你獲得了什麼精彩獎品。Yang Li: Wow, this is exciting!
楊莉：哇，這太令人激動了！Welcome to the Choccy Choc Chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.
歡迎撥打 Choccy Choc Chocolate獎品熱線。請不要掛斷，您馬上就會知道你獲得了什麼精彩獎品。William: Hmmm.
威廉：嗯。Welcome to the Choccy Choc Chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.
歡迎撥打 Choccy Choc Chocolate獎品熱線。請不要掛斷，您馬上就會知道你獲得了什麼精彩獎品。Yang Li: It can't be long now...
楊莉：不會再等了吧……William: Li, can I see that chocolate wrapper?
威廉：莉，我能看看那個巧克力的包裝紙嗎？Yang Li: OK. What does it say?
楊莉：好。上面說什麼了？William: It says "Calls to this line are charged at ￡20 a minute"!
威廉：上面寫着“撥打這個電話每分鐘收費20英鎊”！Yang Li: What?! No way! Well, shall we hang up?
楊莉：什麼？！不行！我們要不要掛斷？William: I should think so! What a swizz.
威廉：我也是這麼想的。這是個騙局。Hangs up
掛斷電話Yang Li: A swizz?
楊莉：A swizz是什麼？William: Yes, a swizz. A swizz is a scheme that tricks people to make money. Like this company is making you call an expensive phone line–it's a swizz.
威廉：對，騙局。這個詞指那些通過欺騙人們來賺錢的計謀。就像這家公司讓你打這個昂貴的電話一樣，這就是騙局。Yang Li: I see.
楊莉：我明白了。William: We might say "What a swizz", or "That's a bit of a swizz".
威廉：我們會說What a swizz，或是That's a bit of a swizz。Yang Li: So, how do we spell this word, swizz?
楊莉：那swizz這個詞怎麼拼呢？William: Well you know, I'm not too sure. I've seen it spelled S.W.I.Z.Z. but I've also seen S.W.I.Z.
威廉：你知道，我也不太確定。我曾經看到過那個詞的拼寫，是S.W.I.Z.Z。不過我也看到過拼成S.W.I.Z的。Yang Li: You mean you don't know how to spell it? But this is BBC Learning English! We should know how to spell it. What a swizz!
楊莉：你是說你不知道這個詞怎麼拼？這可是BBC英語學習節目啊！我們應該知道這個詞怎麼拼寫。這是個騙局！William: Ha ha. Yeah, I'm sorry! But that's just the way English is sometimes, it's always changing! At least you know-
威廉：哈哈。對，我很抱歉！不過這只是英語中偶爾會用到的表達，總是在變化的！至少你知道了……Phone rings
電話響了Yang Li: Oh! Hello?
楊莉：哦！你好？Choc Person: Hello is that Yang Li?
巧克力公司員工：你好，請問是楊莉嗎？Yang Li: Yes.
楊莉：對，我是。Choc Person: We have a missed call from you. Just ringing to say you've won a prize!
巧克力公司員工：我們剛纔沒有接到你的來電。我們打來是告訴你你中獎了！Yang Li: Wow, what is it?
楊莉：哇，獎品是什麼？Choc Person: You need to ring this number to find out. 0800 23 4…
巧克力公司員工：你要打這個電話瞭解詳情。電話號碼是0800 23 4…Yang Li: Ha! What a swizz. Bye.
楊莉：哈哈！這是騙局。再見。William: Bye.
威廉：再見。重點講解：
1. find out
（尤指特意通過努力）發現，找出，查明；
eg. They conducted two studies to find out.
她們實施了兩個研究去查明結果。
eg. We'll find out what happened.
我們會弄清楚到底發生了什麼。
2. hang up
掛斷（電話）；
eg. If you have no other business, you may hang up the phone.
如果你沒有其他事，你就可以掛機了。
eg. I am sorry I have to hang up now. Someone is knocking at the door.
對不起，我得掛電話了，有人敲門。
3. at least
至少，起碼，不管怎樣；
eg. At least that's the theory.
至少理論上是這樣。
eg. At least that's my perception.
至少這是我的看法。
