《中英對照讀新聞》Blind French eaterie seeks to conquer New York看不見的法國食肆企圖征服紐約

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A French restaurant where diners cannot see what they are eating, often spill their wine and must conduct conversations while staring into pitch darkness has proved such a success in Europe that it is making a foray into the Americas.

一家食客看不到自己在吃什麼、常會把酒灑出來、要在一片漆黑中交談的法國餐廳，在歐洲已經大獲成功，現在也將進軍美國。

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After expanding from Paris into London, Moscow, Barcelona and St. Petersburg, the "Dans Le Noir" chain, staffed by blind waiters, will open an outlet in the neon-lit tourist hub of New York’s Times Square this month.

從巴黎擴展到倫敦、莫斯科、巴塞隆納、聖彼得堡之後，這家由失明者擔任服務生的「在黑暗中」連鎖餐廳，本月將在紐約霓虹燈通明的旅遊中樞時報廣場開設分店。

What seemed at the outset to be just a bizarre fad, has proved surprisingly popular. "When I started this business, everyone thought I was crazy," Edouard de Broglie, 49, CEO of the chain’s owner, Ethik Investment, and founder of the restaurant chain, told Reuters.

一開始看似古怪的風潮，現在卻是出奇地受歡迎。49歲的執行長德布羅懿告訴路透：「我開這家餐廳時，大家都覺得我瘋了。」

Dans Le Noir, French for "In the Dark", is not the first restaurant of its kind, although it has spread the fastest, having served more than a million people at its restaurants and temporary venues in Warsaw, Geneva and Bangkok.

「在黑暗中」不是全球第一間類似的餐廳，不過卻是擴張最快的一家，造訪其分店以及華沙、日內瓦與曼谷等臨時分店的顧客已經超過100萬人。

Dans Le Noir uses visually impaired waiters to guide patrons past heavy black curtains into a pitch-dark dining room where they are served a surprise two or three-course menu.（Reuters）

「在黑暗中」僱用失明服務生引導顧客穿越厚重的黑色布簾，進入漆黑的用餐區，在那裡，服務生為顧客奉上2到3道驚奇餐點。（路透）

新聞辭典

pitch darkness：名詞，漆黑一片，也寫成pitch blackness。例句：Suddenly the lights went out, and the house was left in pitch darkness.（燈光突然熄了，房子陷入一片漆黑。）pitch-dark/black為形容詞，例如：a moonless pitch-black night（沒有月光的漆黑夜晚。）

make a foray：片語，嘗試。例句：She made a brief foray into acting before becoming a teacher.（她當老師之前，短暫試過演戲。）

outset：名詞，開端。例句：I told him at/from the outset I wasn’t interested.（我一開始就告訴他我沒興趣。）