时间:2018-12-31 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

   Today was the annual Oyster 1 Festival in Bluff 2, Southland. More than 4,000 people attended to eat oysters 3 – raw or cooked – and to watch competitions: to see how fast someone can open 50 oysters or how fast someone can open and eat 6 oysters. Bluff oysters are bivalves (have 2 shells). You need skill and a special knife to open them. The record for opening 50 oysters is just under 2 and a half minutes.


  Bluff is 30km from Invercargill, in the far south of the South Island. Fishing boats leave Bluff harbour to dredge for oysters in Foveaux Strait, between the South Island and Stewart Island. These oysters are dredged from the sea floor by a boat. A dredge is a large net made of metal. The oyster season starts March 1st and finishes in August. In that time, fishermen are allowed to collect 12 million oysters. These are sent all over New Zealand to fish shops, supermarkets, restaurants and fish and chip shops. Raw oysters cost about $2 each. Most oyster-lovers think Bluff oysters are the best.
  Many years ago, fishermen used to collect 82 million oysters each year but in 1986, a disease killed many Bluff oysters. From 1991 to 1994, there was no oyster fishing. Now the numbers are starting to increase again but there is a quota 4 to make sure that oysters will return to a healthy number again.
  Vocabulary
  ?annual – every year
  ?record – the fastest
  ?to dredge – to scoop 5 up
  ?Strait – sea between two islands
  ?quota – maximum number they can collect

n.牡蛎;沉默寡言的人
  • I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎,它味道真美。
  • I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时,我发现我相当喜欢吃。
v.虚张声势,用假象骗人;n.虚张声势,欺骗
  • His threats are merely bluff.他的威胁仅仅是虚张声势。
  • John is a deep card.No one can bluff him easily.约翰是个机灵鬼。谁也不容易欺骗他。
牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 )
  • We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
  • She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。
n.(生产、进出口等的)配额,(移民的)限额
  • A restricted import quota was set for meat products.肉类产品设定了进口配额。
  • He overfulfilled his production quota for two months running.他一连两个月超额完成生产指标。
n.铲子,舀取,独家新闻;v.汲取,舀取,抢先登出
  • In the morning he must get his boy to scoop it out.早上一定得叫佣人把它剜出来。
  • Uh,one scoop of coffee and one scoop of chocolate for me.我要一勺咖啡的和一勺巧克力的。
学英语单词
a bird in the bush
a/c (account)
advance in cash
aikido
amblychaeturichthys hexanema
amino-bonded phase
artefacts
atomic clock
Auwers-Skita rule
availability of soil water
axial character representation
beam foundation
bistrine
bronislovas
buckled plate
call attention to
carboxymethyl hydroxyl cellulose
cardiotocogram
Carolina hemlock
cenoocyte
centre casting crane
cheval de frise
cleaning doctor
clear and present danger
coasters
core content control
corelation
couch press
Cyclazenin
daub printing
devinsky
dissent from
double bottom floor
double v die
Dvorakian
e-voucher
Epistle of Paul the Apostle to the Philippians
filled column
first heart sound
fleadh
flunarizaine
force current analogy
give someone a lot of shit
grand thefts
harrier-layer cell
heat resistor value
hocus pocus
Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race
Ill news flies apace
inhesion
inhibition of oxidation
inocarpin
instantaneous target detection
ipalbine
irregular interior node
jojola
leading edge flap actuation system
mental worker
Movistar
multiscrew extrusion machine
muscled up
noncorrosibility
nonformatted
ocean sunfish
opacous
optical head servomotors
out-of-towner
ovothricin
oxacycloheptatriene
p.p.b
passion music
pilot-wire controlled network
Pleioblastus rugatus
polyphase converter
price decrease
Queen's bounty
ranitidine
santin
self-consistent field theory
semi classical theory
sithees
social season
split-pole converter
spring barometer
striongral
sub control area
supernumerary tear
telephone head set
tenths-place
third-hands
trendies
tube damage
us -limbed
vagina bulbi
victualing-office
Vissoie
wan's
water-tight type
webpage accessibility
white rhino
yen-bays
Zumaia