BBC地道英语:Swizz 骗局

William: Hello and welcome to Authentic Real English. I'm William Kremer.

Yang Li: And I'm Yang Li.

William: You look very pleased today Li.

Yang Li: Well, I should be. I've just won a prize!

William: Wow, great! What did you win?

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.

Did she win something?

William: Oh wow, cool. Let's call them.

Yang Li: OK.

Yang Li dials number

Welcome to the Choccy Choc chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.

Yang Li: Wow, this is exciting!

Welcome to the Choccy Choc chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.

William: Hmmm.

Welcome to the Choccy Choc chocolate prize hotline. Please hold to find what amazing prize you've won.

Yang Li: 这么长的提示信息！不会再长了吧。

William: Li, can I see that chocolate wrapper?

Yang Li: Yeah, of course. 这个包装纸上写的什么？

William: It says "Calls to this line are charged at ￡20 a minute"!

Yang Li: What? No way! Well, shall we hang up?

William: I think so! What a swizz.

Li hangs up

Yang Li: A swizz? 让我猜一下。这是不是诈骗、坑人钱财的骗局的意思？

William: I think so! What a swizz!

Yang Li: A swizz. That certainly was a swizz.

William: We might say "What a swizz", or "That's a bit of a swizz".

Yang Li: So how do you spell this word, swizz?

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.

Yang Li: You mean you don't know how to spell this word? 我们所有的听众都想知道这个单词的拼写。你却不知道，我们怎么教别人？What a swizz!

William: Ha ha. Yeah, I'm sorry. But that's just the way English is sometimes. It's always changing! At least you know -

Ringing noise

Yang Li: Oh. Hello?

Choc Person: Hello, is that Yang Li?

Yang Li: Yes.

Choc Person: We have a missed call from you. Just ringing to say you've won a prize!

Yang Li: Wow, what is it?

Choc Person: You need to ring this number to find out: 0800 23 4...

Yang Li: What a swizz. Bye.

William: Bye.