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第一段
1 .In my presentation,
在我的演讲中，
2 .I'm going to talk about coffee, and its importance both in economic and social terms.
我将讨论咖啡，以及它在经济和社会方面的重要性。
3 .We think it was first drunk in the Arab world,
我们认为它最初被饮用是在阿拉伯国家，
4 .but there's hardly any documentary evidence of it before the 1500s,
但是在16世纪之前几乎没有任何文献证明它存在，
5 .although of course that doesn't mean that people didn't know about it before then.
当然这并不意味着人们在那之前不知道它。
第二段
1 .However, there is evidence that coffee was originally gathered from bushes growing wild in Ethiopia, in the northeast of Africa.
然而，有证据表明，咖啡最初是从非洲东北部的埃塞俄比亚野生的灌木中采集的。
2 .In the early sixteenth century, it was being bought by traders,
在16世纪初，它被商人买下，
3 .and gradually its use as a drink spread throughout the Middle East.
并逐渐成为一种饮料在整个中东地区使用。
4 .It's also known that in 1522, in the Turkish city of Constantinople, which was the centre of the Ottoman Empire,
1522年，在土耳其的君士坦丁堡，也就是奥斯曼帝国的中心，
5 .the court physician approved its use as a medicine.
宫廷医生批准将其用作药物。
第三段
1 .By the mid-1500s, coffee bushes were being cultivated in the Yemen
到16世纪中期，也门种植咖啡树，
2 .and for the next hundred years this region produced most of the coffee drunk in Africa and the Arab world.
在此后几百年里，这个地区生产了非洲和阿拉伯世界饮用的大部分咖啡。
3 .What's particularly interesting about coffee is its effect on social life.
关于咖啡很有趣的一件事，就是它在社会生活中的影响。
4 .It was rarely drunk at home,
很少有人在家里喝咖啡，
5 .but instead people went to coffee houses to drink it.
相反，人们会去咖啡店喝。
6 .These people, usually men, would meet to drink coffee and chat about issues of the day.
这些人，通常是男性，会聚在一起喝咖啡，聊一聊当天的时事。
7 .But at the time, this chance to share ideas and opinions was seen as something that was potentially dangerous,
但是在当时，这种分享想法和观点的机会被看做是有潜在危险的事情，
8 .and in 1623 the ruler of Constantinople demanded the destruction of all the coffee houses in the city,
在1623年，康士坦丁堡的统治者要求毁掉城市所有的咖啡店，
9 .although after his death many new ones opened,
尽管在他死后许多新咖啡店开张了，
10 .and coffee consumption continued.
咖啡消费也在持续。
11 .In the seventeenth century, coffee drinking spread to Europe,
在十七世纪，喝咖啡传播到了欧洲，
12 .and here too coffee shops became places where ordinary people, nearly always men, could meet to exchange ideas.
并且咖啡店也成了普通人的聚集地，几乎是男性，可以见面交流思想的地方。
13 .Because of this, some people said that these places performed a similar function to universities.
正因为如此，有些人说这些地方和大学有类似的功能。
14 .The opportunity they provided for people to meet together outside their own homes and to discuss the topics of the day had an enormous impact on social life,
（咖啡店）它们提供给人们在家以外聚会并讨论当日话题的机会对社会生活产生了巨大的影响，
15 .and many social movements and political developments had their origins in coffee house discussions.
很多社会运动和政治进步都从咖啡屋的讨论中诞生。