时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:初学者听力文摘精选


英语课

Yael: Don, are you eating my tulips?



Don: Just having myself a little snack.



Y: Of MY tulips? I brought those in here to brighten the place up, not for you to eat! And who eats flowers anyway?



D: Have you seen that movie, Monsoon 1 Wedding? There's a character who eats marigolds. And the other night at dinner I saw a guy with an orchid 2 on the rim 3 of his drink. The bartender said it was edible 4. And so I've done some investigating, and it turns out that many flowers are edible.



Y: Like what?



D: Tulips, for instance. And lilacs and pansies and roses. Oh, plenty of flowers are edible.



Y: But why should anyone eat flowers? Do they have any nutritional 5 value or are they delicious?



D: Most people don't eat flowers in large enough quantities to get too much from them nutritionally, but yes, flowers do contain nutrients 6--some more than others. Rosehips, for instance, are loaded with Vitamin C. In general, pollen 7 is full of protein and tastes bland 8. Nectar is composed of sugars and some trace minerals, so it's usually sweet.



Y: And the petals 9?



D: Petals can be bitter, sweet, savory 10, hot, or bland, you name it. The taste varies from flower to flower. And some petals are good sources of nutrients. Yellow flowers, for example, contain a lot of Vitamin A.



Y: You said SOME flowers are edible. What about the ones that aren't?



D: Other flowers are poisonous. Also, if you show signs of an allergic 11 reaction when you touch a particular flower--say, you develop a rash, then keep that kind of flower away from your plate! Use caution before you start serving up your flower garden for dinner.



1 monsoon
n.季雨,季风,大雨
  • The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。
  • The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。
2 orchid
n.兰花,淡紫色
  • The orchid is a class of plant which I have never tried to grow.兰花这类植物我从来没种过。
  • There are over 35 000 species of orchid distributed throughout the world.有35,000多种兰花分布在世界各地。
3 rim
n.(圆物的)边,轮缘;边界
  • The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
  • She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。
4 edible
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。
5 nutritional
adj.营养的,滋养的
  • A diet lacking in nutritional value will not keep a person healthy.缺乏营养价值的饮食不能维持人的健康。
  • The labels on food products give a lot of information about their nutritional content.食品上的标签提供很多关于营养成分的信息。
6 nutrients
n.(食品或化学品)营养物,营养品( nutrient的名词复数 )
  • a lack of essential nutrients 基本营养的缺乏
  • Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. 营养素被吸收进血液。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 pollen
n.[植]花粉
  • Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。
  • He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。
8 bland
adj.淡而无味的,温和的,无刺激性的
  • He eats bland food because of his stomach trouble.他因胃病而吃清淡的食物。
  • This soup is too bland for me.这汤我喝起来偏淡。
9 petals
n.花瓣( petal的名词复数 )
  • white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣
  • The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 许多花瓣在阳光下开放。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
10 savory
adj.风味极佳的,可口的,味香的
  • She placed a huge dish before him of savory steaming meat.她将一大盘热气腾腾、美味可口的肉放在他面前。
  • He doesn't have a very savory reputation.他的名誉不太好。
11 allergic
adj.过敏的,变态的
  • Alice is allergic to the fur of cats.艾丽斯对猫的皮毛过敏。
  • Many people are allergic to airborne pollutants such as pollen.许多人对空气传播的污染物过敏,比如花粉。
学英语单词
Abbotsford
aeroguns
age-limit
anti-climbing
argue for
audience room
Australind
bearing on
beta-naphthoquinoline
bloodyhandedness
bohemeo
Brassaiopsis hainla
Bream, Julian
Canadian Association of Broadcasters
cell-freer
Colombian
compensating eyepiece
confidentiality agreements
customary's account
debona
deep-space
detective fiction
dissentshik
document architecture
Dorintosh
dual face
duodenoscopic
e-meter
earth board
embassies
Errochty Water
eumc
European water ouzel
executing a sentence outside of jail
ferritic-pearbite
fibrowatt
fleshes out
floating-rate
floodgums
fractional power law
Glafsfjörden
go after
Heracleum hemsleyanum
incohesion
International Rescue Committee
intrahepatic cholangiolar hepatitis
intuition type
Jamaican apple
john glover
judicial clause
jugale
Kaifu Toshiki
La Clayette
ligamentum transcersum atlantis
loabe
Lodhammar
lolland (laaland i.)
make an errand
management on board
method of areas
microhabitat
microprocessor language editor
milich
monobasic potassium oxalate
niman
non-listed company
ocean bottoms
Organa genitalia feminina interna
overprepared
paraphyte
Phlebochiton
pinions
prairie chicken
present-worth
prolonged succession
quantized interval
raft culture
reduction in pass
remember me to sb
research on markets
retinochoroiditis juxtapapillaris
retrochoir
reys
Saint Basil the Blessed
secondary couple
severe deformity
Sida subcordata
strawberry pears
sucking off
sync
tensile creep test
terfluranol
the hunger games
thick-legged
third class commercial paper
till the earth
ultrasonic examination of urogenital system
untimeous
Wahhabi
well-illustrated
Whistler's Mother
wire filter