Lager is a light-coloured beer, usually pale gold, often served cold. It tastes cleaner and crisper than dark beers such as stout, or than many ales.

Lager拉格啤酒 is是 a light-coloured beer一種顏色淺的啤酒，usually pale gold通常是淺金色，often served cold常常冰過再喝。It它 tastes cleaner and crisper喝起來比較清爽俐落 than dark beers such as stout比起司陶特這類深色啤酒，or than many ales或很多愛爾啤酒。

When someone asks for “a lager”, they often mean a glass of it, not the type in the abstract. Most of the ordinary yellow beers you see in shops are lagers.

When someone asks for "a lager"當有人說要「a lager」的時候，they often mean他們通常是指 a glass of it一杯這種啤酒，not the type in the abstract而不是抽象地指這整個種類。Most of the ordinary yellow beers you see in shops你在店裡看到的一般黃色啤酒 are大多是 lagers拉格。

The name is German: Lagerbier was beer made to be stored — Lager means a store, a place where you keep things — and brewers still let this beer rest cold for a time. Though actually, in everyday talk the word has stretched: people say lager for “the usual pale beer”, even when it was not made in the old German way.

The name is German這個名字源自德文：Lagerbier was beer made to be storedLagerbier原本是指「用來存放的啤酒」——Lager means a store, a place where you keep thingsLager這個字本身就是倉庫、存放東西的地方的意思——and brewers still let this beer rest cold for a time而釀酒師現在仍然會讓這種啤酒冰存一段時間。Though actually不過其實，in everyday talk the word has stretched日常說法裡這個字的意思已經擴大了：people say lager大家會把 for "the usual pale beer",「一般的淺色啤酒」都叫lager even when it was not made in the old German way即使它不是照古老德國做法釀的。

It is an everyday pub and shop word, not fancy.

It它 is是 an everyday pub and shop word酒吧、店裡常見的日常用詞，not fancy不是什麼講究的詞。