时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语趣味课堂


英语课
Chris: So what about other good dishes, tell me?
 
Ade: Well it’s not a dish, but is very popular in Spain when you order a beer, they put you a tapas and it’s very nice to go out with your friends and have some tapas. I love to do that because you have small portions 1 of food and you can go and ask for some fish or for some meat, so you have a very different kind of lunch doing that, no.
 
Chris: Oh yeah, of course, everybody knows about the tapas. But they say it’s really something from the south and it has a story behind it, but I don’t really remember it. Could you enlighten 2 me with that story, please?
 
Ade: Yeah. Tapas means 3 'to cover' in Spanish. So it was before that when they order something to drink they have to put a little plate on top so the flies don’t go into the drink. That’s why they started calling it tapas, because it covers the drink.
 
Chris: So when then in the end on that plate they start putting like little things to eat?
 
Ade: Yeah, exactly.
 
Chris: And then just that got just bigger and bigger and bigger?
 
Ade: Yeah, really big. But the problem is that it’s very popular in the south because it’s still original kind of going to have some tapas, because in the north now is like it’s popular but only for tourists. And you have to pay a lot of money to have a tapa. And actually in the original way of having a tapa means that you only pay for the drink and the tapa comes for free.
 
Chris: For free, oh nice, so that’s what tourists don’t know. So what do you say about that we go and have a beer?
 
Ade: Yeah, sure.
 

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson
dish
 
So what about other good dishes, tell me?
 
The word dish can have two meanings. It can mean a plate, or a type of food. Here it means food. Notice the following:
 
My favorite Italian dish is lasagna.
That Chinese restaurant has many spicy 4 dishes.
go out with
 
It is nice to go out with friends.
 
When you go out with friends, you do something together away from home to enjoy each other's company. Notice the following:
 
I like to go out with friends on the weekend.
I plan to go out with my coworkers tonight.
take your word
 
I'll take your word on that.
 
This phrase 5 means you trust what someone says. Notice the following:
 
I would not work for that company. The manager is a bad man.
I'll take your word on that.
enlighten
 
Could you enlighten me with that story?
 
When you enlighten someone, you educate them in an entertaining way. Notice the following:
 
He enlightened 6 us with his tales of Europe.
My father used to always enlighten us at the dinner tables with stories of his youth.
flies
 
They put a little plate on top so the flies don’t go into the drink.
 
A fly is a very common insect that flies around and like to land on food. Notice the following:
 
There are alwasy flies around cows.
I killed the fly with a fly-swatter.


1 portions
一部分( portion的名词复数 ); 一份遗产(或赠与的财产); 分享的部份; 嫁妆
  • Three portions of fish and chips, please. 请来三份炸鱼薯条。
  • supersize portions of fries 超大份炸薯条
2 enlighten
v.授予...知识,启发,教导,开导
  • Can you enlighten her on this subject?对这个问题你能启发启发她吗?
  • Please enlighten me with your instructions.请不吝赐教。
3 means
n.方法,手段,折中点,物质财富
  • That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
  • We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。
4 spicy
adj.加香料的;辛辣的,有风味的
  • The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
  • Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。
5 phrase
n.短语,词组;成语,习语
  • The phrase was caught on and immediately became popular.这个短语被采用后很快就流行了。
  • That's exactly the phrase I was looking for.这就是我一直找的那个短语。
6 enlightened
a.开明的,有知识的
  • The teacher's words made me at once become enlightened. 老师的一席话使我顿开茅塞。
  • What she said enlightened all of us. 她一讲,大家心里都亮堂了。
学英语单词
alice springs (stuart)
alumogoethite
antimicrobics
antitumor drug
apparatus for absolute pitch
AppleScript
at latest
bannerless
Bayard-Alpert ionization ga(u)ge
beam-positioning magnet
bear comparison with
Berodach-baladan
burner turndown factor
butoxamine
carbide-tipped cutting tool
carbon rheostat
Castril, R.
chinese style
chloracyl
commission for acceptance
convective scale
diarchial
Dinban
disease of plants
display conservatory area
entry hatch
estates of the realm
family Meliphagidae
field theory
fine ranging
foreign resident
global civil society
Grignan
hemicytheria estrualina
hopper crystal
igc
image dislocation
instantaneous short-circuit test
juristal fact
kapak
kemp-shott
Khalid
ksu
landing direction light
Lichenberger figures
lymphangioadenography
magnesium carbonate (basic)
Mahrāt, Jab.
Mantjiltjara
matriculation certificate
mcnaushton's dominance index
micro roentgen
mistreaters
mold separator
multiple factors
Neoquate
neurospora crassa
nickel alumina catalyst
nilt
non fading properties of gasoline
operating reservation
over-gassed juice
pari-mutuel machine
party-support
ployphagia
pre-program guidance
pullarian
put someone to etc. expense
puts to work
quotemasters
radiclibs
radius compensation
Ranunculus kauffmanii
single beam crane
sipunculus (sipunculus) norvegicus
slow to operate relay
soil percolation
SPECfloat
spirantized
spreitles
spring stock gauge
stat padder
Straits Channels
superelongation
taglock
the first man
the grapevine
theta-burst
tin-zinc alloy (electro)plating
to concern
transition rail
undertaker
undispleased
uniform sales act
unundoable
unweldable
vena gastro-epiploic sinistra
vertebrate bioenergetics
visulizer
void compartment
watching service
water-mains