广播电视英语短句 第 117 课：特殊语言-6

Blogs are not the same as spam . 博客与垃圾邮件（ Spam ）不同。

Spam is unwanted sales messages sent to your electronic mailbox. 垃圾邮件是指发送到你的电子邮箱的而你并不想要的销售信息。

The name is based on a funny joke many years ago on a British television show, "Monty Python's Flying Circus." 这个名字源于许多年前英国的一个电视节目 ——“Monty Python 的飞行马戏团 ” 中的一个有趣的笑话：

Some friends are at an eating place that only serves a processed meat product from the United States called SPAM. 几个朋友聚在一家餐馆，该餐馆只提供从美国进口的肉食加工产品，这种产品名叫 SPAM 。

Every time the friends try to speak, another group of people starts singing the word SPAM very loudly. 每当这些朋友们试图讲话时，另一帮人就开始非常大声地嚎唱 SPAM 这个词。

This interferes with the friends' discussion - just as unwanted sales messages interfere with communication over the Internet. 这干扰了朋友们的谈论 —— 如同讨厌的销售信息干扰了网络之间的交流一样。