美国科学60秒 SSS 2013-02-25
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(二)月
英语课
“The best value for money in cooking equipment, in my mind, is first a digital scale and digital thermometer. They’re both about $20. They help you cook so much more accurately 1 that they’re both enormously valuable.”
Nathan Myhrvold is the former chief technology officer at Microsoft and co-founder of Intellectual Ventures. He’s also the co-author of the six-volume 2011 Modernist Cuisine 2 and the 2012 single volume Modernist Cuisine At Home. I caught up with him after a cooking talk he gave at the recent meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 3 of Science in Boston and asked him about the simplest things people can do to cook better at home.
“A blowtorch is a wonderful thing. You can get one of those for about 25 bucks 4 at Home Depot 5. And there’s a ton of things that you can use a blowtorch for, in browning a steak or touching 6 up the browning of a chicken or making crème ***.
“The next thing I’d get is a pressure cooker. Pressure cookers are relatively 7 inexpensive, they’re in every kitchen store, your grandma probably had one, but a lot of people don’t. A pressure cooker is interesting because by pressurizing the vessel 8, you’re able to cook much hotter than the boiling point of water, and still have water be present. And so that let’s you do a lot of cooking tasks easier and faster. So we love a pressure cooker for making stock, for making vegetable soups and so forth 9.”
You can hear parts of Myhrvold’s lecture and the full interview on an upcoming episode of the Science Talk podcast.
1 accurately
adv.准确地，精确地
- It is hard to hit the ball accurately.准确地击中球很难。
- Now scientists can forecast the weather accurately.现在科学家们能准确地预报天气。
2 cuisine
n.烹调，烹饪法
- This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
- This restaurant is renowned for its cuisine.这家餐馆以其精美的饭菜而闻名。
3 advancement
n.前进，促进，提升
- His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
- The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。
4 bucks
n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃
- They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
- They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。 来自《简明英汉词典》
5 depot
n.仓库，储藏处；公共汽车站；火车站
- The depot is only a few blocks from here.公共汽车站离这儿只有几个街区。
- They leased the building as a depot.他们租用这栋大楼作仓库。
7 relatively
adv.比较...地，相对地
- The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
- The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。