“骚扰电话”英语怎么说

导语：　英国家庭每年接到大约十亿个骚扰电话，许多老人甚至“都不敢接电话”。你知道骚扰电话的英语怎么说吗

Up to one billion nuisance calls are received by British families each year, leaving many elderly people "too scared to answer the phone".

Culture Minister Ed Vaizey said nuisance calls were a "plague" on families and had to stop.

The Government's Nuisance Calls Task Force said new rules should be introduced to make company bosses responsible for cold-callers causing "severe distress" to families.

Under the plan, Payment Protection Insurance cold-callers could face fines of up to 20 per cent of their annual turnover.

英国家庭每年接到大约十亿个骚扰电话，许多老人甚至“都不敢接电话”。

文化部长艾德·维济将这些骚扰电话比作一场急需制止的“瘟疫”。

政府成立的“骚扰电话调查小组”表示，应该出台新规让那些对人们生活带来“严重骚扰”的推销公司付出代价。

受这项规定的影响，“支付保障险”的电话推销员将面临高额罚款，处罚金额高达年营业额的20%。

【讲解】

文中的nuisance call就是“骚扰电话”的意思，其中nuisance是名词，意为“骚扰行为;讨厌;妨害”，如：make a nuisance(惹人讨厌)，smoke nuisance(烟雾公害)。口语表达中，What a nuisance!则表示“真讨厌;多烦人啊”的意思。

第二段中的plague作名词，意为“瘟疫;祸患”，如：Plague was then prevailing in that city.(当时瘟疫正在该城流行。);也可以作动词，意为“困扰，折磨”，如：plague with doubts and fears(为疑虑和恐惧所困扰)