We might as well remind our readers--especially any tea merchants who are rubbing their hands and hoping to get into the British market for green tea--of the following: More than just a drink Looking over 300 years of tea's history in Britain, it has never been simply a drink--a fact which the 19th-century critic and humanist John Ruskin quite failed to grasp.
我們不妨再提醒一下，尤其是摩拳擦掌，有志攻佔英倫綠茶市場的茶商要注意了。豈只是飲料而已回顧英倫三百年的飲茶史，它的確從來不只是一種飲料而已。十九世紀知名藝評家，也是人道主義者羅斯金，是個不諳其中奧妙的實心人。