Level: upper-intermediate

Q&A Round 2

In recent years, the market shares of Starbucks has been sliced off by some new brands. Do you still drink Starbucks or coffee from other brands? 近些年来，星巴克的市场份额被新近咖啡品牌抢夺，你是喝星巴克还是品牌的咖啡呢？
I live in the city center so there are literally hundreds of different coffee brands for me to choose from.

City center 市中心，市区繁华地段

划重点：
Literally 是个很地道的词
基本大家可以记它的两个意思：
a.According to the most basic or original meaning of a word or expression
b.Emphasize something, especially a large number, is true
如：
The Olympic Games were watched by literally billions of people.
Adam坦言不是星巴克的粉丝，高级的星巴克咖啡动辄50-60元，不是很经济。

Generic coffee brands 普通的咖啡品牌

Generic: relating to a whole group of things rather than to one thing 类的，一般的
如：
Fine Arts is a generic term for subjects such as painting, music and sculpture.

Most of the generic coffee brands that are available have pretty much the same quality irrespective of the name of the brand.
大多数市面上普通牌子的咖啡质量都差不多。

Pretty much the same 基本相同，差不多 (一个很地道的口语表达)

Irrespective of ... 抛开不谈……的话

High-end 高端的 Relating to products or services that are more expensive and of best policy than other products of the same type

High-end shoes/clothes/cars/coffee/computer memory chips

Q&A Round 3
What would be your parameters when you choose which coffee shop to go? 你对好的咖啡厅有什么标准？

For me personally, I do it so much that I have certain coffee shops in every part of the city that I wanna go to. 个人来说，我去咖啡馆去得太多了，以至于，在城市的每个区域我都有想去的咖啡馆。

Easily accessible 很容易就能触及、到达

A charging station 充电端口

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