时间:2019-02-21 作者:英语课 分类:美国文化脱口秀


英语课

 民以食为天,第一期,我们就从吃开始,带你去美国超市买吃的!而且,我们要带你去美国吃货们一致推崇的有机超市Whole Foods!


关键词:
美国老百姓、吃货逛的超市不一样
老百姓一般会去Walmart, Target 这些价廉物美的大卖场。讲究吃、崇尚健康、有机的人则会去Whole Foods这个精品超市。虽然贵,但环境好、选择多、品质高
Whole Foods以其新鲜的有机食品和舒适的购物环境为人称道,同时网站也会持续推出健康食谱和健康相关的文章,宣传健康生活的理念。关于Whole Foods, 有这几个关键词:
Organic: 有机
Foodie: 吃货
High-end supermarket: 高端超市
Grocery shopping: 买菜、买吃的
大家都知道apple, orange, banana, 但是这里要教大家一些你可能不知道的。比如苹果,就有好多类型,比如“蛇果”,英语叫red delicious。这里分享些常见的苹果种类和特色:
Variety 品种
Characteristics 口感风味
Red Delicious 红蛇果 grainy, juicy, very sweet
Golden delicious 金冠苹果 firm, very sweet, juicy
Granny Smith 青苹果
crunchy, tart 1, juicy
Gala 嘎啦苹果 crisp, sweet-tart
Macintosh 旭苹果(苹果的Mac电脑名字就来源于这种苹果哦) tender, sweet, mild, fragrant 2
Fuji 红富士 extra crisp, sweet-tart
上面形容苹果口感和口味的常用词注解:
Crunchy: 脆的
Tart: 酸的
Juicy: 多汁的
Tender: 软嫩的
Fragrant: 香甜的
Grainy: 粉粉的
美国生活实录之逛超市
除了苹果,加州各种莓类很多。大家应该最熟悉strawberry(草莓),那我们来看一下其它一些常见的berries:
Blackberry: 黑莓 (跟黑莓长得很像的桑葚名字叫mulberry)
Raspberry: 覆盆子
Cranberry 3: 蔓越莓
Blueberry: 蓝莓
各种莓除了可以单吃,美国人最喜欢搭配:
frozen yogurt: 冻酸奶
pancake: 甜煎饼
现在很红的牛油果 (avocado),牛油果近来在国内很火,它也是加州最具代表性的水果之一, 说起牛油果,一定要知道的单词就是ripe(熟):
It's ready to eat/It's ripe: 熟了,可以吃了
not ripe/unripe:还没熟
overripe: 熟过了
(特别提醒:ripe这个词指的是蔬菜水果熟了,烧菜熟没熟要用cooked)
在美国有很多dip(酱),最受欢迎的就是guacamole(牛油果酱)。这是一种墨西哥做法,但早就变成了全美人人喜爱的食物,一般大家会沾玉米片吃。做法是把牛油果捣成泥,其它还包括:
chopped tomato and onion: 蕃茄丁和洋葱丁
garlic and cilantro: 大蒜和香菜
a splash of lime juice: 挤一点青柠汁
a dash of salt: 一撮盐
美国最红的蔬菜:羽衣甘蓝(kale)。
Kale(羽衣甘蓝)是美国健康饮食的代表。美国的白领女性们甚至把吃kale salad当成了一个竞争项目,好像不吃她们就不够时尚一样。商家也抓住商机推出了各种kale juice、kale chips(羽衣甘蓝片,一种零食,有点像海苔)。Kale的口感非常特别,嚼着嚼着会有恐龙的即视感,我会用这些词形容它:
chewy: 耐嚼
sturdy: 厚实
kale chips则是
crisp/crispy: 脆脆的(前面讲苹果的时候提到crunchy,也可以用来形容chips)
最潮的结合
Guacamole+Kale=Guac-Kale-Mole, 和前面的Kale Yeah一样,又是一个起名小心机。
Whole Foods除了主打健康,整个品牌定位是很有创意、很小资、很潮的:
Yuppie (小资)
Hipster (潮人)
Foodie(吃货)
中国人爱吃的蔬菜
最后讲一个非常大众的蔬菜——青菜,它的英文名却比较不为人知:Bok choy
Bok choy相信大家也看出来了,跟点心dim sum这个词一样,都是从粤语演化过去的英文词。

adj.酸的;尖酸的,刻薄的;n.果馅饼;淫妇
  • She was learning how to make a fruit tart in class.她正在课上学习如何制作水果馅饼。
  • She replied in her usual tart and offhand way.她开口回答了,用她平常那种尖酸刻薄的声调随口说道。
adj.芬香的,馥郁的,愉快的
  • The Fragrant Hills are exceptionally beautiful in late autumn.深秋的香山格外美丽。
  • The air was fragrant with lavender.空气中弥漫薰衣草香。
n.梅果
  • Turkey reminds me of cranberry sauce.火鸡让我想起梅果酱。
  • Actually I prefer canned cranberry sauce.事实上我更喜欢罐装的梅果酱。
学英语单词
active immunity
ajaccios
Almyropotamos
Ameca
amedo
angon
average daily calling rate
ball and inner ring assembly
barge to barge transfer
bills drawn under letter of credit
binary to decimal conversion
binnein mor
blowing spray
bomb calorimeters
branches at home and abroad
brick laid with mortar
capricorn beetle
carib woods
chimbley
complete set of eigenstates
contact flange
core and winding assembly
darrayne
disprovide
diverting dam
draw ... up
drift epoch
droseras
electron paramagnetic resonance
europium acetate
exchange volume
field investment
flairing
gemmifications
general call signal
Gentiloni
genus pedilanthuss
global liquidity
gone over
Hai Phong
heat-producing reaction
hflo
independent fault
inlaces
internal fuel
ionic speaker
irreversible circulation
ks-standard loading
latex examination gloves
LAVINIA
lipophilic compound
literatize
Loboc
macrocyclic compounds
metal-semiconductor-metal diode
monosuits
nonpsychological
notched furnace
oil sump tank
pallidofugal
Parafasciolopsis
pass-over offset
pentaradiate
pickup points
Pillsbury, Lake
plaque-infested port
plasma lipids
playdohs
public lawyer
Puccinia epimedii
put one's best foot first
radicicol
ratten-
readmitance
reclaiming by centrifuge
red-shank
relational instruction
resource productivity
sampling length
scare someone out of his wits
seasonal group profile code
settleability test
small wiring
soft corruption
spoliation
steam and gas
stereochemical formula
sun-bathing
suppression hangover time
tax reimbursement for export
thermofocal
tracepoint
tunnel in rock
twofold degeneracy
uncorrugated
unfavorable variance
union colourimeter
wetting of cloth
whidder
Wycakon-G
yudha