【英语趣味课堂】绿色蔬菜-Good Greens

Todd: OK, Gabrielle, you are a vegetarian¹.

 

Gabrielle: That's right!

 

Todd: So, you do not eat meat!

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

Gabrielle: Sure absolutely! Well, I guess in the summertime, I grow a lot of salad vegetables:

lettuce², green onions, tomatoes, and over the winter, whatever grows pretty much, carrots or cabbages, broccoli³.

 

Todd: Wow, you grow vegetables all year round!

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

Todd: Oh, what kind of soup?

 

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.

 

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

 

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 sort, a stock, a veggie stock.

 

Todd: Now that's normally a problem for vegetarians⁴ right, cause you can't use bullion⁵, (Yeah) the beef cube or the chicken cube.

 

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!

 

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

 

Gabrielle: No, problem, you're welcome.

1 vegetarian   

n.素食者；adj.素食的

参考例句：

• She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
• I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。

2 lettuce   

n.莴苣；生菜

参考例句：

• Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿，我好做色拉。
• The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。

3 broccoli   

n.绿菜花，花椰菜

参考例句：

• She grew all the broccoli plants from seed.这些花椰菜都是她用种子培育出来的。
• They think broccoli is only green and cauliflower is only white.他们认为西兰花只有绿色的，而菜花都是白色的。

4 vegetarians   

n.吃素的人( vegetarian的名词复数 )；素食者；素食主义者；食草动物

参考例句：

• Vegetarians are no longer dismissed as cranks. 素食者不再被视为有怪癖的人。
• Vegetarians believe that eating meat is bad karma. 素食者认为吃肉食是造恶业。

5 bullion   

n.金条，银条

参考例句：

• In the London bullion market yesterday,the price of gold was steady.昨天伦敦金银市场黄金价格稳定。
• Police have launched a man-hunt for the bullion robbers.警方已大举搜捕抢劫金条的罪犯。