每日新闻（70）【游客怒了！意大利餐厅切一刀三明治加收2欧元】

Tourists

furious

after restaurant in Italy added a €2 charge for cutting a sandwich in half

.

It is a holiday tale

designed to court outrage: a tourist in a cafe in Italy has been charged an extra €2 for the privilege of having his sandwich cut in half.

The customer just wanted to

share the sandwich with his girlfriend, but when the bill arrived it listed the mysterious service "diviso a metà" at the price of €2.

A

snapshot

of the receipt went

viral

, prompting Italian newspapers to question the owner of the cafe – Bar Pace in Lake Como – who defended the surcharge."To cut it in half took us some time, and work must be paid for,"

she said

.

重点词汇释义：

furious 激烈的;狂怒的;暴怒的;猛烈的;盛怒的;高速的

snapshot 快照;简介;简要说明;给…拍快照，拍快照

viral 病毒的;病毒性的;病毒引起的

译文：

意大利一家餐厅因将三明治切成两半而加收2欧元的费用，游客们对此感到愤怒。

这是一个激起众怒的假日故事：意大利一家咖啡馆的游客因三明治被切成两半而被额外收取2欧元。这位顾客只是想和他的女朋友分享三明治，但当账单到达时，它列出了神秘的服务“切成两半”，价格为2欧元。收据的一张快照在网上疯传，促使意大利报纸向这家咖啡馆的老板（科莫湖的Bar Pace）求证，老板为附加费辩护。她说：“把它切开需要我们一些时间，而且工作必须有报酬。”。来自卫报（The Guardian）