Feifei: 大家好，歡迎收聽由 BBC Learning English 為您帶來的《地道英語》節目。我是馮菲菲。

Natalie: And I'm Natalie. What was that?! 我是納德利，那是什么聲音？

Feifei: 不好意思，是我的肚子在亂叫。今天早上時間太緊，沒來得及吃早飯，現在餓得前心貼后背。My stomach is grumbling for some food! 我的肚子餓得咕咕叫呢！

Natalie: Well, we could go for some brunch after the programme. 啊，做完節目我就可以吃早午餐了。

Feifei: Brunch? 早午餐？

Natalie: Yes, B.R.U.N.C.H. brunch. 是的，早、午、餐。

Feifei: What is brunch? Brunch is usually a hot meal, e.g. eggs on toast. 什么是早午餐？就是類似雞蛋和吐司的熱餐吧。

Natalie: Well brunch is a portmanteau word which is when two words and their meanings are combined together to form a new word.

Feifei: Brunch 是一個合成詞，也就是由兩個單詞組成一個新的單詞。

Natalie: So listen to the word brunch. Which two words do you think have been joined together to make it? 在聽聽看這個單詞是由哪兩個單詞組成的？

Feifei: Let me think… brunch… 我想想……

Natalie: I think you definitely need to get some brunch! Your stomach is calling out for some food! OK, brunch is made from the words breakfast and lunch. 我想你真該去吃早晚餐啦！好吧，我告訴你，這個單詞是由單詞早餐和晚餐組成的。

Feifei: Brunch 是由單詞早餐 breakfast 和午餐 lunch 組成的。So brunch is a meal between breakfast and lunch? 所以說吃早午餐的時間是在早餐和晚餐之間咯？

Natalie: Yes, it's usually in place of breakfast and lunch, as it's too late for breakfast and too early for lunch, so we call it brunch. 是的，它可以代替早餐和晚餐，因為它對于早餐來說有些遲了，對于午餐來說又有點早了。

Feifei: So this meal usually involves a lot of food? 所以這一餐包括很多事物咯？

Natalie: Yes as some people replace breakfast and lunch with this meal it tends to be a big meal! But don't worry people in Britain tend to only have brunch now and again. It can be very popular to have brunch on a Sunday. 是啊，因為有些人不吃早餐和中餐，這一餐就可以代替了，所以這個餐很豐盛的說。不過不用擔心，在英國有些人有時就只吃早午餐。人們在星期天都很喜歡早午餐。

Feifei: 在英國，很多人更喜歡在星期天享用一頓 brunch. I know why! Sunday lie-ins 星期天睡懶覺 – 這樣一來錯過早餐，吃午餐又太早，所以早午餐再合適不過了。

Natalie: I think we'd better go get you some brunch Feifei!! 我想我們現在就是早午餐時間了，去吃點東西吧，菲菲??！

grumble: 抱怨，嘟囔，怨言
Some of us grumble all day long. 咱們中的一部份人就終日抱怨。

portmanteau n. 旅行皮箱；混成詞 adj. 多用途的，多性質的