西部落:水果面面观
日期:2009-07-13 16:21

(单词翻译:单击)

简介
在看今天的节目之前,Jessica想问一下大家,你们知道多少种水果的名称呢?我知道的反正不多,只能列出最常见的那些...但是在看了今天的节目之后,相信大家会有所收获的哟!



文本
From the time you're very young someone is always telling us to eat more fruit. Well, I think we would eat more fruit if we knew for sure that it was going to be any good when we bought it. So expensive. We went to a good store in New York called Fairway the other day and looked at their fruit.

Grapefruit - better than they used to be. When I was a kid my mother would cut them in two and sprinkle sugar on them and leave them overnight.

How would you like to have the job of stacking fruit in a fruit store? So, it didn’t fall down.

Lemons - one of the great fruits, so versatile. So many things you can do with them. Of course you can’t eat them.

Mango, they’re good but the pit is strange shape and very hard to get at, you need a sharp knife and it takes about a half hour to get at what you want to eat.

Not too familiar with a papaya. I would buy one, but I don’t know whether I would know what to do with it, whether to eat it for breakfast or dessert.

I suppose over the years I’ve wasted more money on melons then anything else I'd ever bought. I've bought a thousand honeydew melons but only three of them were ripe over the years.

I don’t want to buy six or eight bananas, you get them in a package. I just want one or two bananas.

I don’t like green fruit. Green is for vegetables.


We used to climb the mountain and pick these when I was a kid. But we didn’t call them blueberries we called them "huckleberries."

Strawberries they are all from California these days. I mean if you’re from New York, the strawberries should have been grown in New York or New Jersey.

I think a cherry is the only thing that I ever stolen from a store.

One of the great mysteries to me is how they make a grape without any seeds in it. And where is the next generation of grapes coming from if they don’t have seeds in them?

Why do they have tomatoes in with the fruits for? I know there are people that argue that tomatoes are a fruit. Tomatoes are a vegetable. I don’t care what they say.

I hate to have a sticker on a piece of fruit.

Now here’s something I never heard of: a California pluot. What in the world is a pluot?

The three of us here in the office had a contest the other day to see how many fruits we could name. I think Susie won with 27. See how you do!

重点词汇学习
Sprinkle: to scatter small drops of liquid or small pieces of something 洒,喷淋;撒
We saw a huge vehicle sprinkling water on the street.
我们看到一辆车在街上洒水。

Stack: to make things into a neat pile, or to form a neat pile
Mother is stacking the plates in the kitchen.
母亲在厨房里把盘子一个个叠起来。

Versatile: (of food, a building, etc.) having many different uses多功能的;多方面适用的,有多种用途的
Eggs are easy to cook and are an extremely versatile food.
鸡蛋容易烹煮,怎么做着吃都行。
This is an extremely versatile new kitchen machine.
这是一种功能极多的新型厨房机械。

Ripe: ripe fruit or crops are fully grown and ready to eat 成熟的
The corn is ripe.
玉米成熟了。

Sticker: a sticky label with a picture or message on it, that you stick on to sth 粘贴标签,贴纸
window stickers 窗贴纸

contest: 竞赛,比赛
He took part in the composition contest and won a prize.
他参加作文比赛并得了奖。

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重点单词
  • contestn. 竞赛,比赛 vt. 竞赛,争取 vi. 奋斗
  • extremelyadv. 极其,非常
  • versatileadj. 多才多艺的,多方面的,通用的
  • cherryn. 樱桃(树), 樱桃色
  • overnightn. 前晚 adj. 通宵的,晚上的,前夜的 adv.
  • compositionn. 作文,著作,组织,合成物,成份
  • stickyadj. 粘的,闷热的,困难的,令人不满意的
  • kitchenn. 厨房,(全套)炊具,灶间
  • cornn. 谷物,小麦,玉米 v. 形成(颗粒状),腌,(用谷
  • scattern. 散布,零星少量 vt. 驱散,散播 vi. 分散,