时间:2019-02-24 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Clare: Hello this is Clare from the United States, I am talking with Mike from Singapore about obesity 1 and diet in our countries. America is famous for well infamous 2 for being one of the fattest countries in the world. Mike you said that in Singapore diet is something of an issue as well, can you please explain?
Mike: Right, well we have all the usual burger joints 3, Pizza Place, all the fast food basically in Singapore are also and because a lot of us are busy working so naturally this food actually seem like a good idea because it saves us a lot of time and if you're working in a city like Singapore, during lunchtime, you don't have time to basically queue with everybody for food and stuff ... so, fast food are actually good alternative to get your lunch. And on top of that, we have what we call, in Chinese we call it "kopitian". What it means is "coffee shop" in English and these coffee shops they don't serve, they serve coffee also but a lot of it is actually local delicacies 4, and Singaporean food are famous for being delicious but very, very high in cholesterol 5.
 
Clare: Well can you give me an example of a dish?
 
Mike: OK, one of the famous dish is actually originated from I think Malaysia or Indonesia. It's called "Nasi Lemak". Nasi Lemak is Malay for "rice". What this food ... what Nasi Lemak is actually it consists of fish, which is fried fish and fried egg with coconut 6 rice and ...
 
Clare: What is coconut rice? I've never heard of that.
 
Mike: Coconut rice is actually normal rice cooked with, I think, coconut milk, if I'm not wrong and so rice gives off a very, very nice fragrance 7 and we just call it coconut rice. And this coconut rice is, as you can imagine, very very high in cholesterol and ...
 
Clare: Right, and sugar too
 
Mike: Right. So Nasi Lemak is one fine example. Another example is probably "char 8 kway teow". Char Kway Teow is actually a Tawainese word for fried noodles. So this char kway teow is basically Chinese rice noodles with some fish cakes and with a lot of chilly 9 and bean sprouts 10 and they use a lot of ... I think it's black sauce, Chinese black sauce. Actually I'm not really sure what's the American equivalent. So, just like Nasi Lemat previously 11, this char kway teow is also very, very high in ...
 
Clare: In cholesterol.
 
Mike: Right.
 
Clare: Although it sounds really, really good. I ate before coming here but I'm hungry again!
 
Mike: And I think most of the delicious food are high in cholesterol.
 
Clare: Because frying makes everything taste better.

n.肥胖,肥大
  • One effect of overeating may be obesity.吃得过多能导致肥胖。
  • Sugar and fat can more easily lead to obesity than some other foods.糖和脂肪比其他食物更容易导致肥胖。
adj.声名狼藉的,臭名昭著的,邪恶的
  • He was infamous for his anti-feminist attitudes.他因反对女性主义而声名狼藉。
  • I was shocked by her infamous behaviour.她的无耻行径令我震惊。
接头( joint的名词复数 ); 关节; 公共场所(尤指价格低廉的饮食和娱乐场所) (非正式); 一块烤肉 (英式英语)
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on gas mains. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在煤气的总管道上了。
  • Expansion joints of various kinds are fitted on steam pipes. 各种各样的伸缩接头被安装在蒸气管道上了。
n.棘手( delicacy的名词复数 );精致;精美的食物;周到
  • Its flesh has exceptional delicacies. 它的肉异常鲜美。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • After these delicacies, the trappers were ready for their feast. 在享用了这些美食之后,狩猎者开始其大餐。 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
n.(U)胆固醇
  • There is cholesterol in the cell of body.人体细胞里有胆固醇。
  • They are determining the serum-protein and cholesterol levels.他们正在测定血清蛋白和胆固醇的浓度。
n.椰子
  • The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。
  • The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。
n.芬芳,香味,香气
  • The apple blossoms filled the air with their fragrance.苹果花使空气充满香味。
  • The fragrance of lavender filled the room.房间里充满了薰衣草的香味。
v.烧焦;使...燃烧成焦炭
  • Without a drenching rain,the forest fire will char everything.如果没有一场透地雨,森林大火将烧尽一切。
  • The immediate batch will require deodorization to char the protein material to facilitate removal in bleaching.脱臭烧焦的蛋白质原料易在脱色中去除。
adj.凉快的,寒冷的
  • I feel chilly without a coat.我由于没有穿大衣而感到凉飕飕的。
  • I grew chilly when the fire went out.炉火熄灭后,寒气逼人。
n.新芽,嫩枝( sprout的名词复数 )v.发芽( sprout的第三人称单数 );抽芽;出现;(使)涌现出
  • The wheat sprouts grew perceptibly after the rain. 下了一场雨,麦苗立刻见长。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The sprouts have pushed up the earth. 嫩芽把土顶起来了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
学英语单词
acrocentric
autoradiographs
away-day
big-dollar
bird in laying
black theater Theatre
burial metamorphism
buttoneddown
Camelford
carefully throughout operations
chloracyl flouride
Colombelles
compensation dosage
core matrices
cross-countercurrent heat exchanger
curseless
cut-off grinder
dadgum
decomposable
dreapers
drier agitator
Eamonn
election results
electioneerings
enclosed feeding
eye shadow
fractional-horsepower brush
frattons
frozen dinner
genus Dipus
group efficiency
halogen counter tube
hereditary annuity
hydraulic double-cage press
hyper-media
hyperbolic metric
Indigofera pedicellata
infinite automata
integral fin packages
intercharacter
intraepidermal carcinoma of the eyelid margin
introduced patch
ipomoea carnea fistulosa
Isocid
kalymnians
lentil soup
limit angle
liniments
loop route
Lymburn
Maleatis
manufacturing laboratory
marooned log data
mass energy absorption coefficient
mathcore
medium-technology robot
mutual partial capacitance
NAVMC
new-waked
non-legume symbiotic nitrogen fixation
noneism
Norton Air Force Base
oligemy
ore smelting
orthorhombic systen
osmoregulatory
over-utilization
overdrawing
overleaping
pareus
partially withdrawn control rod
pay someone back in his own coin
phippen
piston looling system
Proscylliidae
quality control activity
rami chorioideus
rotary type barring mechanism
s/s
salicylates
sappression of urine
Saw-Handle
screw shaft pipe
scrubbish
servece man
shop time
silyl radical
Southwell
sowarree
spectro microscope
spur-gear set
starting crank shaft
superior procuratorates
syntrophic(davis 1950)
there are people dying
tin yield
turns on the waterworks
ultimate fuel burn-up
unholds
volcaniclastic
wave motion
wettability of glaze