第3013期:The Tea Culture You Don't Know

9/5/2026

英语每日一听 | 每天少于5分钟

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I have always like being outdoors ever since I was a little kid.

我从小就喜欢户外活动。

It's always been like foraging, you know, just kind of goes along with that, and just like learning about what the plants are and what you can eat.

这就像觅食一样，自然而然了解到这些植物是什么，以及哪些可以食用。

Reading this Native American ethnobotany book, I was just looking up what tribes lived in this region, and what plants they used for what.

读这本美洲原住民族民族植物学书籍时，我刚刚查阅了哪些部落曾居住在这一地区，以及他们使用哪些植物来做什么。

So I was looking for plants in Texas, and found out that Native Americans around here used yaupon, which is a their only access to caffeine.

我在德克萨斯州寻找植物，发现这里附近的美洲原住民使用代茶冬青，这是他们获得咖啡因的唯一途径。

It's the only caffeinated plant native to North America. Yaupon is, it's a native shrub that grows all along the Gulf Coast here in Central Texas.

这是北美本土唯一含有咖啡因的植物。代茶冬青是一种原生灌木，生长在德克萨斯州中部墨西哥湾沿岸一带。

We're about as northwest as it grows, but then all along the Gulf Coast and then up the Atlantic coast to Virginia.

它们大约生长在西北方向，然后沿着墨西哥湾海岸一路延伸，再沿着大西洋海岸一直到弗吉尼亚州。

It's an evergreen, has a little red berries in the wintertime, and as I said, it's the only caffeinated plant native to the US.

它是一种常绿植物，冬天会结出小小的红色浆果，而且正如我所说，它是美国本土唯一含有咖啡因的植物。

It's very, very hardy. It's a relative of South American yerba mate, which is a really popular caffeinated beverage from South America.

它非常非常耐寒。它与南美马黛茶属于同族植物，马黛茶是一种在南美洲非常受欢迎的含咖啡因饮品。

Native Americans used to roast it into a really dark tea, and it has kind of a roasty smoky flavor to it. You can treat it all different ways to get all kinds of flavors.

美洲原住民过去常常把它烘焙成一种真正的黑茶，带有一种烘焙的烟熏味道。你可以用不同的方式来处理它，以获得各种口味。

So all the all the caffeinated teas in the world, like, you know, green tea, white tea, black tea, oolong, pu'erh, like all those teas, they all come from the same plant.

世界上所有含咖啡因的茶，比如绿茶、白茶、红茶、乌龙、普洱，都来自同一种植物。

They're like it's the same species of plant, and all those flavors all come from how it's grown, where it's grown and how its processed afterwards.

这是同一种植物，所有那些风味都源自其种植方式、种植地点、以及后续的加工方式。

So I found out you can pretty much do the same kind of thing with the yaupon too.

我发现代茶冬青也可以做类似的事情。