美语情景对话 第306期:Good Greens 优质蔬菜

Todd: OK, Gabrielle, you are a vegetarian.

托德：加布里埃尔，你是一个素食主义者。

Gabrielle: That's right!

加布里埃尔：没错！

Todd: So, you do not eat meat!

托德：所以你不吃肉类！

Gabrielle: I don't. No meat, no fish!

加布里埃尔：不吃。不吃肉类，不吃鱼类！

Todd: OK, and you said that you have a garden.

托德：好，你说过你有一个花园。

Gabrielle: Yeah, I'm lucky to have enough room to have a vegetable garden, as well as a flower garden, so I love growing veggies.

加布里埃尔：对，我很幸运，我家里有足够的空间建了个菜园，还有一个花园，我喜欢种植蔬菜。

Todd: Oh, nice! Can you tell us about your garden and what you grow and what you eat?

托德：真好！你能跟我说说你家的花园吗，你都种什么，吃什么？

Gabrielle: Sure absolutely! Well, I guess in the summertime, I grow a lot of salad vegetables: lettuce, green onions, tomatoes, and over the winter, whatever grows pretty much, carrots or cabbages, broccoli.

加布里埃尔：当然可以！在夏天的时候我会种许多能用来做沙拉的蔬菜：包括莴苣、大葱、西红柿；而冬天则会种大量的胡萝卜、卷心菜和花椰菜。

Todd: Wow, you grow vegetables all year round!

托德：哇，你一整年都在种蔬菜！

Gabrielle: I try. I try. I'm not a great gardener. Yeah, so!

加布里埃尔：我尽量这样做，尽量。我并不是一个好的园丁。就这样！

Todd: And what things do you like to make with these vegetable?

托德：这些蔬菜你喜欢和什么一起搭配来吃？

Gabrielle: Ah, in the summer time I love just raw vegetables, so salads are great, and I eat them with Tofu or, yeah, vegetables are good. (OK) Yeah in winter soups. I love making soup with fresh veggies.

加布里埃尔：夏天的时候我喜欢吃生蔬菜，做成沙拉很棒，我会搭配豆腐来吃，蔬菜非常棒。（好的）冬天的时候就做汤喝。我喜欢用新鲜的蔬菜做汤。

Todd: Oh, what kind of soup?

托德：哪种汤？

Gabrielle: Well, I don't follow recipes actually, so what ever veggies I have go in the pot. Yeah, tomato soup, corn soup's good.

加布里埃尔：实际上我并不按照食谱做，我把菜园里有的蔬菜都放进锅里。当然，西红柿汤和玉米汤非常好。

Todd: Sounds good. How do you make soup?I mean what is your procedure?

托德：听起来不错。你怎么做汤？我是说步骤是什么？

Gabrielle: OK, well, basically I take whatever vegetables I have, chop them up and cook them, boil them lightly. I like them still crunchy and then I often add a base of some salt, a stock, a veggie stock.

加布里埃尔：好，基本上来说我会用我能找到的蔬菜做汤，把蔬菜切碎然后稍微炒煮一下。我喜欢吃起来脆脆的蔬菜，之后放点盐就行了，这样就做成了高汤，蔬菜高汤。

Todd: Now that's normally a problem for vegetarians right, cause you can't use bouillon, (Yeah) the beef cube or the chicken cube.

托德：这对素食主义者来说是个问题，因为你们不用肉汤来调味，（对），比如牛肉粒或是鸡精块之类的。

Gabrielle: Sure, at home actually, we have a lot of vegetarian products available so I get some organic veggie stock, or alternatively, I use some spices, some cumin or basil spice, yeah, or sometimes lentils I cook up. Yeah!

加布里埃尔：没错，通常在家里我们有很多素食产品，所以我会做有机时蔬高汤，或者我会用一些调味料，一些孜然或是罗勒叶，有时我烹饪时也会用小扁豆。嗯！

Todd: You're making me hungry. Sounds good. Well, thanks a lot, Gabrielle.

托德：你说得我都饿了。听起来真好。非常谢谢你，加布里埃尔。

Gabrielle: No problem, you're welcome.

加布里埃尔：不用谢，不客气。

重点讲解：
1. all year round
一年到头；终年；
eg. Town gardens are ideal because they produce flowers nearly all year round.
城市公园是理想去处，那里几乎一年四季鲜花盛开。
eg. The country is of maritime climate, and is wet all year round.
这个国家的气候为海洋性气候，全年都很湿润。
2. chop up
切碎；剁碎；
eg. Chop up three firm tomatoes.
拿3个硬西红柿切碎。
eg. I do not like to chop up onions. That makes me cry.
我不喜欢切洋葱，它令我掉眼泪。
3. cook up
煮熟，烧熟，做好（尤指丰盛的饭菜）；
eg. Hot food is available, though the prisoners have to cook it up themselves.
可以吃到热饭热菜，不过犯人们必须自己煮。
eg. He used to cook up great cauldrons of pasta.
他以前常常煮几大锅的意大利面。