英国人太孤独了，“聊天咖啡馆”能帮他们吗？ | 双语阅读

为应对普遍存在的孤独，英国超市和咖啡连锁店发起“聊天咖啡馆”活动，鼓励顾客相互交谈。但是，英国人有这么容易改变吗？Screenshot: FTChinese1It is just after 5pm and I am nursing a cup of Earl Grey tea in the hangar-like Sainsbury’s supermarket at Fulham Wharf in west London.下午5点刚过，我在伦敦西部富勒姆码头(Fulham Wharf)的那家机库形状的森宝利超市(Sainsbury’s)喝着格雷伯爵茶(Earl Gray)。We are around a dozen customers in the megastore’s café as the autumn evening draws in, and most of us are on our own. None looks likely to be getting better acquainted anytime soon, I decide, as Tracy Thorn’s melancholy tones echo out of the fuzzy PA system. But the supermarket would like us to — it has launched an experiment, Talking Tables, to tempt shoppers into conversation. At some, the menta ………………………………