美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-07-02
时间：2019-01-20 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(七)月
That spoon sure looks yummy. Not that I am planning on eating my utensils 1, but the appearance and feel of cutlery influences the taste of food. That's according to a study in the journal Flavor. It was already known that plate size, background music and even lighting 2 can influence eating habits. To test the effect of cutlery, researchers served food with cutlerier with different weights, colors and shapes. When volunteers ate yogurt with lighter 3 spoons, they read (?) that taste as denser 4 and more expsensive. Spoon color was important as well. A blue spoon made white yogurt taste less salty than the same yogurt dyed pink. And a black spoon made both yogurt tast less sweet. Researcher also fed subjects cheddar cheese, who said the cheese eating from a knife seemed saltier than cheese eating from a fork, spoon or toothpick. Clearly, outside clues have a huge influence on how food tastes and also on our eating habits, which makes color your choice of place settings at your next dinner party.
- Formerly most of our household utensils were made of brass. 以前我们家庭用的器皿多数是用黄铜做的。
- Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。
- The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
- The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。
- The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
- The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。