万花筒 2008-08-07&-08-08 老外奥运尝美食

Here in the Back Alley¹ food markets, one of the most interesting foods you can try, are live scorpions². They take live scorpions and fry them, and put them on a stick, put them in your mouth. Taste just like any other fried food you’d ever have. Very delicious, very delicious. Look scary, taste like French fries. No kidding.

 

I would like to try er, starfish. Starfish. No no no starfish. Yeah, Yes! All you need is a little Chairman Mao, you can have lunch anywhere. Looks like a starfish, one of the most beautiful creatures in the sea, about ready to go into my tummy. Very hot, tastes like catfish³. Tastes like catfish. Seasoning⁴, somewhat of occasional seasoning, very salty. It's fried and very hot, just got I, very interesting, you look inside there, it’s black. I don’t know what that is.

 

Look around here, everything up here is some sort of raw meats, insects. Everything is taken here and fried. As scary as it looks, you just have to assume it's been fried enough to stay safe once you eat it. And judging by the crowd of people that are out here, you know, you have to feel it's a safe place to eat. You have a lot of concerns about eating new foods, you know, my rule of thumb, follow the crowds, whatever the crowds are eating at must be good food and must be safe food. See if you will enjoy something as much as I am.

 

I’m Mark Carlson, the Associated Press, in Beijing

 

1 alley   

n.小巷，胡同；小径，小路

参考例句：

• We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。

2 scorpions   

n.蝎子( scorpion的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• You promise me that Black Scorpions will never come back to Lanzhou. 你保证黑蝎子永远不再踏上兰州的土地。 来自电影对白
• You Scorpions are rather secretive about your likes and dislikes. 天蝎：蝎子是如此的神秘，你的喜好很难被别人洞悉。 来自互联网

3 catfish   

n.鲶鱼

参考例句：

• Huge catfish are skinned and dressed by hand.用手剥去巨鲇的皮并剖洗干净。
• We gigged for catfish off the pier.我们在码头以鱼叉叉鲶鱼。

4 seasoning   

n.调味；调味料；增添趣味之物

参考例句：

• Salt is the most common seasoning.盐是最常用的调味品。
• This sauce uses mushroom as its seasoning.这酱油用蘑菇作调料。