Although heavily taxed in the 18th century, tea quickly won ever greater popularity (see last month's cover story "Who Put the Tea in Britain?"), and particularly after the British Parliament passed a law greatly reducing the tea tax at the end of the 19th century, it became the national drink and demand for it rocketed.
十八世紀茶稅雖高，仍然風行草偃、迅速普及；（詳七月號「茶葉西遊記」）尤其英國國會通過法案大減茶稅之後，茶葉更成全民國飲，需求量巨增。