
It has been the hangout of writers, artists, poets and politicians, doctors and lawyers, radicals and revolutionaries for as long as anyone can remember.(在所有人记忆所及的岁月里,这里一直是作家、艺术家、诗人、政客、医生、律师乃至激进分子和革命者的聚脚地。) And for 44 years, Christos Vanas, the proprietor(店主;业主) of Mouria, has let them all in.
在所有人记忆所及的岁月里,这里一直是作家、艺术家、诗人、政客、医生、律师乃至激进分子和革命者的聚脚地。而44年来,穆里亚的老板赫里斯托斯·瓦纳斯把他们都迎进了门。
Every day at 7am, the taciturn(沉默寡言的) former waiter has been the first man to step inside the historic cafe in Exarchia, the heart of leftwing Athens(雅典左翼的心脏地带). It is a ritual he has kept punctiliously, opening up the famous gathering place before he himself has had his first coffee.(这个仪式他一丝不苟地坚持了下来:先打开这家著名的聚会场所,然后才喝上自己的第一杯咖啡。)
每天清晨7点,这位沉默寡言的前服务员总是第一个走进这家位于埃克萨尔希亚——雅典左翼的心脏地带——的历史老店。这个仪式他一丝不苟地坚持了下来:先打开这家著名的聚会场所,然后才喝上自己的第一杯咖啡。
“Only Saturdays are different,” says his daughter Areti, drawing on a Karelia(抽着一支卡雷利亚香烟), the aromatic(芳香的;香气浓郁的) Greek cigarette that, like Mouria, has been around for more than a century. “By 5am, he is here serving tsipouro(希腊传统蒸馏烈酒齐普罗) and other [alcoholic] spirits(烈酒) to warm up the stallholders(摊主) of the street market outside.”
“只有星期六不一样,”他的女儿阿蕾蒂一边说,一边抽着一支卡雷利亚——这种香气浓郁的希腊香烟和穆里亚一样,已存在了一个多世纪。“到凌晨5点,他就已经在这里,给外面街市上的摊主们端上齐普罗酒和其他烈酒,让他们暖暖身子。”