生活英语情景口语:你喜欢做饭吗?

L: do you like cooking, Julia?

J: I really enjoy it, especially when it ends up tasting good!

L: how often do you usually cook?

J: I usually make a few salads for lunch throughout the week and I make dinner about 6 times a week.

L: that's a lot of cooking. You must save a lot of money by eating at home so much.

J: I do. If you cook at home, you can eat healthy food cheaply.

L: what kind of dishes do you usually make?

J: I almost always make either a beef roast or a chicken roast with asparagus, parsnips, peas, carrots and potatoes on Sundays.

L: do you make a lot of traditional British food?

J: aside from the Sunday roast, we usually eat bangers and mash¹, toad-in-the-hole, or fish'n chips once a week.

L: how about spicy² food?

J: my family loves spicy food. We often eat Chinese, Thai, Indian, or Mexican food when we're in the mood for spice.

L: what's your favorite dish to make?

J: I absolutely love making mousakka, which is a Greek dish with eggplant. But it takes a lot of time, so I don’t often make it.
茱莉亚,你喜欢做饭吗?
我很喜欢,尤其是做得好吃的时候.
你一般多久做一次饭?
我通常每天都做一些沙拉当午饭,每周有6天都做晚饭.
那可做得挺多的.你总在家吃饭一定省了不少钱.
确实是.如果你在家做饭,饮食就会既健康又实惠.
你一般做什么菜?
周日通常不是做烤牛肉就是做烤鸡,配上芦笋,萝卜,豌豆,胡萝卜和土豆.
你常做传统的英国菜吗?
除了星期日做些烧烤的东西,我们通常平均每周吃一次香肠配土豆泥,面包裹香肠或者炸鱼薯条.
吃辣的吗?
我们家人都很爱吃辣的.想吃辣的时候我们就吃中餐,泰餐,印度菜或者墨西哥菜.
你最喜欢做什么菜?
我最喜欢做慕沙卡,那是一种用茄子做的希腊菜.不过做这道菜需要花很长时间,所以我不常做.
End up: to find yourself in a place or situation that you did not intend or expect to be in 最终成为;最后处于
If you go on like this you'll end up in prison.
如果你继续这样,早晚得进监狱。
At first they hated each other, but they ended up getting married.
他们起初相互仇恨,到后来却成了夫妻。
If he carries on driving like that, he'll end up dead.
如果他继续这样开车,总有一天会把命都丢掉.

Aside from:除...之外
Aside from his meagre salary,he has no other resources to fall back on.
除了那一点微薄的薪水,他没有别的可靠财源.
Aside from being fun and good exercise,swimming is a very useful skill.
除了是乐趣和有益的锻炼以外,游泳还是一种很有用的技能.
It is aside from our present aims to devote too much time to this question.
若在这个问题上花费过多的时间,那就偏离了我们当前的目标.

Roast: a large piece of meat that is cooked whole in the oven 烤肉
the Sunday roast
星期日的烤肉

Asparagus: a plant whose young green or white stems are cooked and eaten as a vegetable 芦笋;龙须菜

Eggpalnt:茄子

1 mash   

n.麦芽浆，糊状物，土豆泥；v.把…捣成糊状，挑逗，调情

参考例句：

• He beat the potato into a mash before eating it.他把马铃薯捣烂后再吃。
• Whiskey,originating in Scotland,is distilled from a mash of grains.威士忌源于苏格兰，是从一种大麦芽提纯出来的。

2 spicy   

adj.加香料的；辛辣的，有风味的

参考例句：

• The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
• Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。