Everyday English(75).doc

主题:Everyday English(75)peacock 孔雀 A peacock is a large bird. Its long tail has bright green and gold feathers with spots like eyes on them. When a peacock raises its tail and fans out the feathers, it is indeed a wonderfull sight. 孔雀是一种巨鸟。它那长长的尾巴有着翠绿和金色羽毛，羽毛上有像眼睛的斑点。孔雀竖尾开屏的时候，那真是一番美妙的景象。 A peacock likes to walk about proudly. So, f a person is very proud, we can say he is as proud as a peacock. Such a person is unpleasant. A person who plays the peacock is even more unpleasant. What kind of people often play the peacock? Vain people do. 孔雀喜欢高视阔步。因此，如果一个人十分骄傲，我们就可以说他像孔雀般骄傲。这样的人不讨人喜欢。自我炫耀的人更叫人讨厌。哪一种人常常炫耀自己的呢？虚荣心重的人就会这样做。健康食油 Sunflower oil is a polyunsaturated fat, a good choice for the health-conscious eaters. Avoid blended oils, which may contain coconut or palm oil, both high in saturated fatty acids. Corn oils, made from the sweetcorn plant or maize, is among the oils containing polyunsaturated fatty acids, desirable in the diets. Safflower and Soya bean oil are others. 除了葵花籽油(Sunflower Oil)、粟米油(Corn Oil)之外，花生油(Ground Nut Oil)、红花油(Safflower Oil)和大豆油(Soya Bean Oil)亦是属于植物油种类(Vegetable Oil)。 植物油是属于未完全饱和脂肪(polyunsaturated fat)，对于注重健康(health-conscious)饮食的人士就最适合不过。 贮存油的地方绝不能有异味，因为油易于吸收异味。亦不能存放在有光直接照射的地方。因为温度高会破坏油的结晶，便会失去油原有的特性。辣椒 Chilli The seeds of chillies are the hottest part, so always deseed chillies unless a really hot flavour is required. Never touch lips or eyes while deseeding them as a strong reaction may occur on the delicate skin. Try to deseed chilli in water to reduce strong reaction, or use spoon to deseed the chillies instead of using your fingers to avoid direct contact. 辣椒内的种子(seeds of chillies)是辣椒最辣的部分(hottest part)。除非你所烹调的菜式要求很辣的味道(hot flavour)，否则的话都应把辣椒的种子除去(deseed the chillies)才放进菜中。 当你除去辣椒的种子后，便应立即彻底地洗手，绝不能将接触过辣椒的手去触及嘴唇或眼睛(touch lips or eyes)，因为强烈反应(strong reaction)会令唇嘴或眼睛赤痛及红肿，更会令敏感性皮肤痕痒。 不妨尝试用匙羹除去辣椒种子，或者在水中进行，便可减低直接接触(direct contact)的机会了。 第二十五篇Ross一直暗恋着Rachel, 但他却迟迟没有行动,最后还是Chandler在Rachel生日的那天不小心说漏了嘴(spill the beans)，让Rachel知道了Ross对她的感情。Rachel开始以另一种眼光看待Ross,并且想和他在一起。可问题是Ross这时已经有了一个很不错的女友Julie,现在是他做出选择的时候了：ROSS: I dont know what to do. What am I gonna do? I mean, this, this is like a complete nightmare.CHAN: Oh, I know. This must be so hard. Oh, no. Two women love me. Theyre both gorgeous and sexy. My wallets too small for my fifties, and my diamond shoes are too tight.JOEY: Hey, heres a thought, Ross.CHAN: Dont touch the computer. Dont ever touch the computer.JOEY: Ross, listen. I got two words for you. Threesome.CHAN: Ok, all right, look. Lets get logical about this, ok? Well make a list. Rachel and Julie, pros and cons.【视角】鱼与熊掌不能兼得，一个是暗恋了近十年的梦中情人Rachel (Ive been dreaming about me and Rachel for ten years now), 一个是非常好，非常在乎他的Julie，要在她俩之间做出选择真是为难了Ross，难怪他说这整个就是个恶梦 (This is like a complete nightmare.)。Chandler对于Ross的处境可是一点也不同情，相反他酸溜溜地说：“噢，我了解，这真是困难，两个女人同时爱上了我，她们又都那么性感迷人（Oh, I know. This must be so hard. Oh, no. Two women love me. Theyre both gorgeous and sexy.），我的钱包不够装那些大钞，我的钻石鞋太紧了(My wallets too small for my fifties, and my diamond shoes are too tight.)。” Chandler说到后来颇有点“朱门酒肉臭，路有冻死骨”的忿忿不平之意。在一旁的Joey好像想到了一个主意，于是他说：“Hey, heres a thought, Ross.” 以后当你有什么想法或主意要对别人说的时候，你不妨也学学Joey的这一句 Hey, heres a thought. 当然你也可以举一反三地说 here is an idea / a suggestion, 等等。Joey出的可不是什么好主意，他说：“我只有两个字给你，那就是threesome （三人一起玩）。” 唉，这Joey连字数都不会算，threesome明明是一个字嘛。对于这么个馊主意，Ross只能翻白眼了。还是Chandler 恢复了理智，建议弄个单子，罗列一下Rachel 和 Julie各自的优缺点以供Ross决择(Lets get logical about this, ok? Well make a list. Rachel and Julie, pros and cons.) pros and cons是一个很常用的表达法，在辩论会上，我们有正方和反方，正方就是“pro”，反方就是“con”， 两者合起来 pros and cons 就表示事物的正反两方面，也就是“the advantages and disadvantages of something”，平时我们所说的“权衡利弊”，就可以说成“wei