时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:Modern English 洋话连篇


英语课

  筷子刀叉

  朋友D说日前在某大酒楼饮茶,见邻桌有青年夫妇和大概是他们在外国结识的老太太一起饮茶。老太太对操作筷子很感兴趣,在那里学用chopsticks 1夹虾饺。D说他有个美国朋友,曾花了一些时间学习正确使用筷子的方法,每有机会就要表演一下,还说用筷子是一种艺术,是古老的中国文化的表现。

  中国人吃饭用筷子,洋人进餐用刀叉。其实洋人从前没有knife 2 and fork 3,用的是木片削成的叉。这种木叉从意大利经伊斯坦堡传到英国,是两刺的肉叉(two-pronged fork)。在此之前,人们吃肉用手,因此对于改用肉叉有人说是“对赐人五指之神的侮辱。”

  筷子又叫作“箸”,据说由于箸与住同音。住有停止之意。航船忌停,江苏一带行船的人们改称箸为“筷儿”。筷音同快,不住而快,一帆风顺矣。日语中筷作箸,但读作hashi,和作桥解的hashi相同,似乎和行船有点关系。日谚有“只会拿着筷子吃”指“茶来伸手,饭来张口。”中餐桌上每人有一份箸匙(zhuchi),一双筷子一把汤匙,也许就没有knife and fork那么杀气腾腾了吧?


1 chopsticks
n.(通常用复数)筷子
  • Can you use chopsticks?您会使用筷子吗?
  • She is not good at using chopsticks.她用筷子还不熟练。
2 knife
n.小刀,匕首;vt.用刀切割,伤害,切,戳;vi.劈开,穿过
  • This is a good knife.这是一把好刀。
  • Please cut it with a knife.请用刀子切开它。
3 fork
n.叉,叉状物;v.叉起,耙,成叉状
  • I eat noodle with the fork.我用叉子吃面条。
  • Please pass me a fork.请递给我个叉子。
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a. uterina
absolute standard barometer
acid-resistant insulation
aerated koji making
Ang. Lim.
anonymous sculpture
Argyrokastron
baggins
below the fold
blowout patch
blyed
brittling
castaneda
chalcomycin
charoite
chloroform spirit
chloromethyl ether
Circular Connectors
compound rotating joints
conodont alteration index
cubical homology
Culoz
cycle turnover
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date wheel shaft
design-based
designed experiment
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direct export and import
disaggregating
drag ... out of
Edmund John Millington Synge
ElObeid
emergency steering position
estimating probable
evaporation getter-ion pump
fen-lich
flash reconnaissance
flight rules
gazella thomsonis
gray iron casting
green-
heat emission in radioactive decay
heat transfer by radiation
high capacity washing machine
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integrable
internal diameter of delivery hose
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monitioner
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oilskins
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sicklebill
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Story.
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Time is short.
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write off an entry
zanjans
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