Culture Corner British Newspapers
文化廣角 英國的報紙
In Britain, the national newspapers are very important.
在英國,全國性的報紙很重要。
There are some very good local newspapers but most people read one of the main national newspapers.
也有一些非常好的地區性報紙,但是多數人讀一種主要的全國性報紙。
The most popular newspapers are the "tabloids".
最受歡迎的報紙是那些“小報”。
They usually have lots of big pictures and the articles are not very long.
通常上面有許多大幅的圖片和短小的文章。
Tabloid papers do not have many serious articles,
小報沒有很多嚴肅文章,
but they contain lots of stories about sex scandals, famous people and the royal family.
卻有很多有關性丑聞、名人和皇室的報道。
They also have big sports sections and a lot of information about TV programmes.
它們也有大的體育版面和很多有關電視節目的信息。
The two best-selling tabloid newspapers are The Sun and The Mirror.
銷售量最大的兩種小報是《太陽報》和《鏡報》。
They sell around four or five million copies a day.
一天的銷售量大約是四五百萬份。
Another tabloid is The Daily Mail, which is more serious than the other two tabloids.
還有一種小報是《每日郵報》,它比那兩種小報要嚴肅些。
There are four main "quality" papers.
英國有四大“高品質”報紙。
They are much bigger and wider than the tabloids
它們比小報版面要大要寬,
and they also have longer and more serious news articles with fewer pictures.
還配有少量圖片的長篇嚴肅的新聞報道。
Quality newspapers have fewer readers.
這些大報讀者較少。
The oldest and most famous quality newspaper is The Times,
歷史最悠久,最著名的大報是《泰晤士報》,
but the best selling ones nowadays, are The Telegraph and The Guardian.
但是現在《每日電訊報》和《衛報》銷量最大。
Finally, there is The Financial Times, a pink business newspaper
最后是《金融時報》,一份粉色的報紙,