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＞＞＞来源The Guardian Mar. 21, 2022
Still sneakingyour own snacksinto the cinema? It’s time to think again
还在偷偷把零食带进电影院吗? 是时候重新考虑了
It’s official – you are allowed to take your own food and drinks into most cinema chains. But whether you should or not is a trickier question.
这是官方规定——你可以携带自己的食物和饮料进入大多数连锁影院。 但你是否应该这样做是一个棘手的问题。
For years, smugglingfood and drink into cinemas has felt like a crime, but no more. Our wildest dreams have come true, and it has finally been confirmedthat, yes, you can officially bring your own snacks to watch films in public places.
多年来，把食品和饮料走私到电影院感觉像是犯罪，但现在不再是了。我们最狂野的梦想终于实现了，而且终于被证实，你可以正式带着你自己的零食去公共场所看电影了。
It was actually back in 2019 that a Twitter user, @halilmemz, asked Cineworld, Odeon and Vue: “Am I allowed to bring my own food and drinks into the screen?” For some reason their answer – a unanimous yes – recently resurfaced online and has, once and for all, dismantled the long-held notion that audiences are only allowed to eat food bought in the cinema foyer.Does this revelationchange cinema etiquette? Well, yes and no.
实际上早在2019年，推特用户@halilmemz就曾问Cineworld、Odeon和Vue:“我可以把自己的食物和饮料带到屏幕上吗?” 由于某些原因，他们的答案——一致的“是”——最近在网上重新出现，彻底打破了观众只能吃在影院大厅买的食物的长期观念。 这个启示会改变电影院的礼仪吗? 嗯，是也不是。
On the plus side, if you have ever snuck a pack of corner-shop Haribo into a cinema under your jumper, you don’t need to do that any more. Put it in a bag. Carry it in your hand. Wave it at cinema employees for all it matters. You no longer have to feel ashamedabout sneaking in snacks.
往好的方面想，如果你曾经在套头衫下面偷偷地把街角小店的哈瑞宝(Haribo)带进电影院，现在你再也不需要这样做了。把它放在一个袋子里。拿在手里。向影院员工挥舞它吧。你不用再为偷吃零食而感到羞愧了。
However, don’t think you can bring along any food you like. Unless you’re at one of those fancy cinemas that serve meals in your seat, hot food is absolutely out of the question. Hot food can transmitsmells much more effectively than, say, a grab bag of Cadbury Twirl Bites. Tuck into a burger or a curry in the middle of The Batman and you run the risk of offendingthe rest of the audience. This can happen. At one preview screening I attended years ago, a leading critic for a national newspaper flounced out of the film almost immediately because someone was eating a Big Mac.
然而，不要认为你可以带任何你喜欢的食物。 除非你去的是那些在你座位上提供食物的豪华电影院，否则热食物绝对是不可能的。热乎乎的食物比一袋吉百利(Cadbury Twirl Bites)更能有效地传递气味。 在看《蝙蝠侠》的时候吃个汉堡或者咖喱，你可能会冒犯到其他观众。 这可能发生。几年前，在我参加的一次试映会上，一家全国性报纸的一位主要评论家几乎立刻退出了这部电影，因为有人在吃一个巨无霸汉堡。
As an aside, cold food can also smell. South Korean cinemas often have signsbanningpeople from eating dried squid during film viewings. So don’t do that either.
另外，冷的食物也会有味道。 韩国电影院经常张贴告示，禁止人们在观影期间吃鱿鱼干。 所以也不要这样做。
Finally, just because you can bring in your own food, it doesn’t necessarily mean that you should. Cinemas barelymade it through the pandemic intact, and many are still struggling. For the most part, audience numbers haven’t returned to pre-pandemic levels and, of the few tickets that do get sold, the lion’s share of the money goes straight to the film studios.
最后，仅仅因为你可以自带食物，并不一定意味着你应该自带。电影院几乎没能毫发无损地挺过疫情，许多电影院仍在挣扎。在很大程度上，观众数量还没有恢复到疫情前的水平，而且，在售出的少数几张电影票中，大部分收入直接流向了电影公司。
重点词汇参考
Sneak 偷带
Snack 零食
Chain连锁
Smuggle 走私
Confirm确认
Unanimous一致的
Revelation启示
Etiquette礼仪
Ashamed 羞愧的
Transmit传递
Offend冒犯
Ban禁止
Barely几乎不
Intact完好无损的
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