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新概念英语三必备课文
主要句子翻译
Lesson 23
One
man's meat is another man's poison
各有所爱
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People become quite illogical when they
try to decide what can be eaten and
what cannot be eaten.
在决定什么能吃而什么不能吃的时候,人们往往变得不合情理。
If you lived in
the Mediterranean, for instance, you would
consider octopus a
great delicacy.
比如,如果你住在地中海地区,你会把章鱼视作美味佳肴,
You would not
be able to understand why some people find it
repulsive.
同时不能理解为什么有人一见章鱼就恶心。
On the other
hand, your stomach would turn at the idea of
frying potatoes in
animal fat -- the
normally accepted practice in many northern
countries.
另一方面
,
你一想到动物油炸土豆就会反胃,
但这在北方许多国家却是一
种普通的烹饪
方法。
The sad truth is that most
of us have been brought up to eat certain foods
and
we stick to them all our lives.
不无遗憾的是,
我们中的大部分人,
生来就只吃某几种食品,而且一辈子都这样。
No creature has received
more praise and abuse than the common garden
snail.
没有一种生物所受到的赞美和厌恶会超过花园里常见的蜗牛了。
Cooked in wine,
snails are a great luxury in various parts of the
world.
蜗牛加酒烧煮后,便成了世界上许多地方的一道珍奇的名菜。
There are
countless people who, ever since their early
years, have learned to
associate snails
with food.
有不计其数的人们从小就知道蜗牛可做菜。
My friend,
Robert, lives in a country where snails are
despised.
但我的朋友罗伯特却住在一个厌恶蜗牛的国家中。
As his flat is
in a large town, he has no garden of his own.
他住在大城市里的一所公寓里,没有自己的花园。
For years he
has been asking me to collect snails from my
garden and take them
to him.
多年来,他一直让我把我园子里的蜗牛收集起来给他捎去。
The idea never
appealed to me very much,
一开始,他的这一想法没有引起我多大兴趣。
but one day,
after a heavy shower,
后来有一天,一场大雨后,
I happened to be walking in
my garden when I noticed a huge number of snails
taking a stroll on some of my prize
plants.
我在花园里漫无
目的地散步,
突然注意到许许多多蜗牛在我的一些心爱的花木上慢悠悠
< br>的蠕动着。
Acting
on
a
sudden
impulse,
I
collected
several
dozen,
put
them
in
a
paper
bag,
and took them to
Robert.
我一时冲动,逮了几十只,装进一只纸袋里,带着去找罗伯特。
Robert was
delighted to see me and equally pleased with my
little gift.
罗伯特见到我很高兴,对我的薄礼也感到满意。
I left the bag
in the hall and Robert and I went into the living
room where we
talked for a couple of
hours.
我把纸袋放在门厅
里,与罗伯特一起进了起居室,在那里聊了好几个钟头。
I
had
forgotten
all
about
the
snails
when
Robert
suddenly
said
that
I
must
stay
to dinner.
我把蜗牛的事已忘得一干二净,
罗伯
特突然提出一定要我留下来吃晚饭,
这才提醒了我。
Snails would,
of course, be the main dish.
蜗牛当然是道主菜。
I did not fancy
the idea and I reluctantly followed Robert out of
the room.
我并不喜欢这个主意,所以我勉强跟着罗伯特走出了起居室。
To our dismay,
we saw that there were snails everywhere:
使我们惊愕的是门厅里到处爬满了蜗牛:
they had
escaped from the paper bag and had taken complete
possession of the
hall!
它们从纸袋里逃了出来,爬得满厅都是!
I have never
been able to look at a snail since then.
从那以后,我再也不能看一眼蜗牛了。
【词汇
poison (title)
n.
毒药
vt.
毒害
,
败坏
,
使中毒
hate each
other like poison
彼此互相狠透了
name one
’
s poison
illogical
adj.
不合逻辑的
,
无章法的
octopus
n.
章鱼
delicacy n.
美味
,
佳肴
delicate
adj.
美味的
,
可口的
,
清淡的
delicious
adj.
美味的
repulsive
adj.
令人反感的
,
令人生厌的
disgusting
adj.
令人厌恶的
stomach n.
胃
turn v.
感到恶心
,
翻胃
fry v.
油炸(
= be
cooked in hot oil
)
-- fried egg
煎鸡蛋
/ fried bread
油炸面包
-- frying pan
煎锅
,
长柄平锅
fat
n.
(动物、植物)油
put
on fat
发胖
fat
adj.
胖的(形容人时不太礼貌)
形容人时一般用:
large,
heavy,
overweight
(adj.
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