时间:2019-01-28 作者:英语课 分类:英语博客 A cup of English


英语课

  Where do we start with the kitchen? There is so much to talk about. Many people say that it is the center of family life. The kitchens that I will describe are those that I have seen and been in in England and the U.S. To start with, a kitchen will often have a water resistant 1 floor: tile, wood, or vinyl. If you drop food or liquids, it's no problem. Just wipe it all up and wash with soapy water. Cabinets are a big thing here in the U.S. They are the cupboards and drawers that you find in the kitchen. I have noticed in the past few years, that the cabinets are quite a status symbol here. The kind of wood that you use, and the stain on the wood both determine the elegance 2 of the kitchen. The most popular kinds of wood at the moment are cherry, fir, and maple 3, though the traditional oak is still used a lot as well. The hardware for the cabinets, the handles and hinges, also come in a variety of materials: plastic, glass, bronze, brass 4, chrome, ceramic 5 and others. You can really make a statement with cabinets, or you can keep them simple and functional 6. The stain on a cabinet is a kind of permanent color wash. They are used to bring out the grain of the wood, and to add a touch of any color.

So, what do we put inside the cabinets? All sorts of things. Anything from the heavy kitchen equipment like the food processor, the blender, the juicer, the slow cooker, and the waffle maker 7. Then there are the pots and pans like the frying pan, the wok 8, baking dishes, and casserole dishes. If you know much about cooking, you will know that there are many other small pieces of kitchen equipment: the sieve 9, the cheese grater, cake pans, the garlic crusher, and the list goes on and on. Cutlery or the silverware are stored in the various drawers, and there is usually a separate drawer for the larger kitchen cultery, such as the wooden or cooking spoons, spatulas 10, carving 11 or chopping knives, serving spoons and hand held whiskers. Gosh, we can certainly do a lot of cooking with all of this equipment. Of course, there is no point cooking unless we have something to put the food on. The dinner plates, side/ salad plates, dessert and cereal bowls, glasses, cups, saucers, china, and wine glasses all have to be stored in cabinets as well.

There is so much to talk about when we are in the kitchen. And we haven't even cooked anything yet! We will continue our Tour of Homes in the kitchen the week after next when we will spend some time talking about the main appliances that we use every single day, and the verbs and vocabulary that go with them.



adj.(to)抵抗的,有抵抗力的
  • Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
  • They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。
n.优雅;优美,雅致;精致,巧妙
  • The furnishings in the room imparted an air of elegance.这个房间的家具带给这房间一种优雅的气氛。
  • John has been known for his sartorial elegance.约翰因为衣着讲究而出名。
n.槭树,枫树,槭木
  • Maple sugar is made from the sap of maple trees.枫糖是由枫树的树液制成的。
  • The maple leaves are tinge with autumn red.枫叶染上了秋天的红色。
n.黄铜;黄铜器,铜管乐器
  • Many of the workers play in the factory's brass band.许多工人都在工厂铜管乐队中演奏。
  • Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
n.制陶业,陶器,陶瓷工艺
  • The order for ceramic tiles has been booked in.瓷砖的订单已登记下来了。
  • Some ceramic works of art are shown in this exhibition.这次展览会上展出了一些陶瓷艺术品。
adj.为实用而设计的,具备功能的,起作用的
  • The telephone was out of order,but is functional now.电话刚才坏了,但现在可以用了。
  • The furniture is not fancy,just functional.这些家具不是摆着好看的,只是为了实用。
n.制造者,制造商
  • He is a trouble maker,You must be distant with him.他是个捣蛋鬼,你不要跟他在一起。
  • A cabinet maker must be a master craftsman.家具木工必须是技艺高超的手艺人。
n.锅,炒菜锅
  • I'm not teaching my students how to use a wok.我不是教我的学生们如何用炒菜的。
  • He threw the meat into his biggest wok to cook.他把肉扔到最大的一口锅里煮。
n.筛,滤器,漏勺
  • We often shake flour through a sieve.我们经常用筛子筛面粉。
  • Finally,it is like drawing water with a sieve.到头来,竹篮打水一场空。
n.(搅拌或涂敷用的)铲,漆工抹刀( spatula的名词复数 );压舌板
  • Monica and Chandler's kitchen has 7 spatulas in plain view. 从平面图上看,Monica和Chandler家的厨房有7把锅铲。 来自互联网
  • Other than the above, we also supply Silk Screen Printing Machine, Mesh, Film, Squeegee, Spatulas etc. 本公司除供应质优产品外,另外还经营各种印刷器材如丝网印刷机,网纱,网框,菲林,胶刮,调墨刀等。 来自互联网
n.雕刻品,雕花
  • All the furniture in the room had much carving.房间里所有的家具上都有许多雕刻。
  • He acquired the craft of wood carving in his native town.他在老家学会了木雕手艺。
学英语单词
a-type boiler
abiding places
accelerating conductor or relay
act up to one's opinion
adamantoids
AG out
amplidyne control unit
amplitude-squeezed light
AMVER
Archaeozoon
asymbiotic nitrogen fixation
atomic packing factor
autocap
bachem
Bergerocactus
black nationalist,Black Nationalist
calate
call signal
carpenter ants
cathode ray gun
chemical fastness
citizen's advocate centre
coal briquette
count against sb
delessio
descent orbit insertion
dittogrphy
dolores vagi
dreamina
earth-eater
emergency bilge suction valve
environmental pharmacology
eye tracking unit
fara
fe-s protein
font type
generation of trip
genuine turpentine oil
goods in bulk
grandiflora
gross start-stop distortion
guest rooms
have somebody by the short hairs
illtyd
intermodel
joffes
kill the enemy
macro directory
media globalization
meningoencephalitides
minimum deflection angle
mobile-river
moon face
mutual most-favored-nation clause
nemery
neoplatin
Nerdwallet
nominal size of pipe
norbert wieners
nuclear design calculations
once-dilapidated
open the way for
orthochronous
panchetti
peloponnesos (morea)
phonon coupled level
phytoclimate
plugged steel
potential capillarity
premium digital content
prester
previous-carry digit
program manager
psychotherapy in dermatological non-disease
pulsed ring
pursuers
r.s
racial stereotype
reflecting component
science and applications
Scourge of God
self-learners
set column markers
sheep maggot
sischanensis
slaved system
snetterton
sodium cooled valves
square of Pegasus
stop-over
storified
super-long stroke crosshead diesel engine
sustained transfer rate
the victims of the earthquake
triangular plug
Trogontherium
undercut trimmer saw
unhinged
value add
voltage overshoot
with the speed of
writable control storage programming