Eztalk美语【83】kitchen god 灶神

Emily: Our supervisor¹ Lester does. Actually, Lester is kind of like the kitchen god.
Joice: The kitchen god? What does he do?
Emily: He just stays in the kitchen and watches you. Before the Chinese New Year, the kitchen god tells his boss whether you were good or bad this year. Just like Lester does!
Joice: Oh, no! I did a lot of bad things this year. I hope the kitchen god isn't like Lester--he blabs my mistakes to everybody!

kitchen god 　
灶神 。农历十二月二十四日是传统上「送灶」的日子，灶神会在这一天回天庭向玉皇大帝报告这一家人的功过，所以家家户户会用甜食抹在灶神嘴上，希望祂的嘴能甜一点

supervisor (n.) 　
监督者，上司

blab (v.) 　
泄漏（秘密），（有意无意地）提到
A: Do you like Joanne? 你喜欢乔安吗？ B: She's OK, but she always likes to blab about how successful her husband is. 她还可以啦，不过她老爱提她老公有多成功。

艾蜜莉：是我们的上司莱斯特。莱斯特其实就有点像是灶神。
乔伊丝：灶神？他是做什么的？
艾蜜莉：他就只是待在厨房盯着你。到了农历年前，灶神就去跟他老板报告你这一年的表现是好是坏。就跟莱斯特一样！
乔伊丝：糟了！我今年出了很多锤。希望灶神不会跟莱斯特一样，净跟大家数落我的不是！

1 supervisor   

n.监督人，管理人，检查员，督学，主管，导师

参考例句：

• Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说，我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
• He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。