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囧单词：珍珠奶茶英文原来是“波霸奶茶”？ 台湾的珍珠奶茶人人爱喝，但小编近日发现它的英文名竟是Bubble tea 或是 boba tea——直译“波霸奶茶”！这是怎么回事儿呢？ 原来，台湾早期仅有珍珠奶茶一种称呼。约1988年时，台南市海安路一家叫“草蜢”的小贩，取当时性感女星叶子楣的灵感，将珍珠奶茶改称波霸奶茶。以后在南台湾，波霸逐渐就成为大粉圆的说法、而珍珠指小粉圆。 在台湾以外，亦常见波霸BOBA或Bubble这名词。起因是1980年代末到北美洲的华裔新移民仍以波霸奶茶作号召，加州各地因此如雨后春笋般出现BOBA Tea House、BOBA Planet、BOBA World等等茶坊，现时非台裔居民依然满口BOBA或Bubble。他们会用英语向柜枱的服务生说：Give me latte, and add some BOBA in, please.（给我一杯拿铁咖啡，加点波霸)，波霸亦已成为粉圆的代名词。 当然，如果你说Pearl Milk Tea，某些老外也会明白你的意思。来看看英文的详细描述吧：Pearl Milk Tea is a sweetly flavored tea beverage invented in Taiwan. Drink recipes may vary, but most bubble teas contain a tea base mixed with fruit (or fruit syrup) and/or milk. Ice blended versions of the drink are also available, usually in fruit flavors. Bubble teas may contain small tapioca? balls （木薯粉圆） or pearls called boba. Pearls made of jelly are also available in many places. These teas are shaken to mix the ingredients, creating a foam on the top of some varieties, hence the name. 英式蛋挞：古老的美味 Custard tart: the traditional English dessert The custard tart is regarded as one of Britain’s traditional dishes. It remained a favourite over the centuries and is just as popular today. Even the name has an ancient pedigree - it is derived from both the old French word for crust (crouste), and the Anglo-Norman ‘crustarde’, which meant a tart or pie with a crust. 蛋挞是公认的英国传统美食之一，几百年来一直深得人们的喜爱，直到今天仍然广受欢迎。甚至连“蛋挞”这一名字也有着古老的渊源——“蛋挞”来源于“酥皮”（crust）的法语词“crouste”和盎格鲁诺尔曼语词“crustarde”，“crustarde”意思是带酥皮的蔬菜、水果或肉馅饼。 Custard tarts were popular during Medieval times and records show that King Henry IV enjoyed them at his coronation banquet in 1399. 早在中世纪时，蛋挞就已经风靡一时。有记载称，1399年，英国国王亨利四世在加冕礼宴会上就享用了蛋挞这种美食。 Henry IV is not the only English monarch with a liking for them. Called ‘doucets’ in the Middle Ages, they were equally popular at the court of Henry VIII. Henry VIII’s daughter, Queen Elizabeth I, who had a famously sweet tooth, also had a great liking for custard in pastry. At her court,