时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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Is 3D Food Printing the Future of Cooking? 3D食物打印机替你下厨?


Lunchtime in the office. Perhaps you've brought some of last night's leftover 1 stir-fry from home, or some takeaway dumplings from a stall.


Or perhaps you're sitting around the printer with your colleagues, waiting for it to produce some tasty sushi…


Sushi from a printer? It might sound far-fetched, but scientists in the field of 3D printing are working on technology that allows you to 'print' real, edible 2 food. The team from Cornell University in the US hope their machine will one day be as commonplace as the microwave oven or blender.


Printing a turkey and celery cube, image copyright Cornell University


Turkey and celery cubes: the new lunch?


So how does it work? Instead of having cartridges 3 filled with various coloured inks, the 3D food printer has rows of syringes filled with different ingredients. It then deposits these food inks line by line, and layer by layer, according to the electronic recipe, until the finished product is made.


So far the team have made biscuits, cakes and even a scallop-based snack in the form of a space shuttle.


Chef Homaro Cantu, who has printed sushi using an inkjet printer, thinks the technology could also be good for the environment.


"Imagine being able to essentially 4 'grow', 'cook' or prepare foods without the negative industrial impact - everything from fertilisers to sauté pans and even packaging. The production chain requirements for food would nearly be eliminated."


He believes that the technology could revolutionise the way we eat, and even bring people closer together.


"3D printing will do for food what e-mail and instant messaging did for communication," says Mr Cantu.


"What if you could have Mum's homemade apple pie sent via e-mail and printed up at home? Her apple pie becomes as close as an instant message on Facebook."


Whether or not the technology is successful will surely depend on what the food tastes like. As they say, the proof of the pudding is in the eating.


Glossary 词汇表 


leftover stir-fry  剩的炒菜


sushi  寿司


far-fetched  不靠谱的


edible  可以食用的


commonplace  平常的


blender  (食物)搅拌机


cartridges  墨盒


syringes  注射器


electronic recipe  电子食谱


scallop  扇贝


space shuttle  太空飞船


negative industrial impact  负面工业影响


fertilisers  肥料


sauté pans  平底煎锅


production chain  生产链


eliminated  消除


revolutionise  使彻底变革


instant messaging  即时信息


homemade  自制的


the proof of the pudding is in the eating  空谈不如实践



n.剩货,残留物,剩饭;adj.残余的
  • These narrow roads are a leftover from the days of horse-drawn carriages.这些小道是从马车时代沿用下来的。
  • Wonder if that bakery lets us take leftover home.不知道那家糕饼店会不会让我们把卖剩的带回家。
n.食品,食物;adj.可食用的
  • Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation.我们靠着野菜才没被饿死。
  • This kind of mushroom is edible,but that kind is not.这种蘑菇吃得,那种吃不得。
子弹( cartridge的名词复数 ); (打印机的)墨盒; 录音带盒; (唱机的)唱头
  • computer consumables such as disks and printer cartridges 如磁盘、打印机墨盒之类的电脑耗材
  • My new video game player came with three game cartridges included. 我的新电子游戏机附有三盘游戏带。
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
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