英文原版对话1000个:1203 Food for Independence

 　　Olga: How is Chilean Indepdence Day?

 

　　Daniel: Well, Chilean Independence Day, it's in September.

 

　　Olga: Yeah.

 

　　Daniel: September the eighteenth but we have another holiday on the nineteenth so we take those two days plus probably Saturday and Sunday of the same week.

 

　　Olga: What do you do?

 

　　Daniel: We have parties for pretty much the whole week and we do some special, kind of special shops and then you can eat empanadas. You know what empanada is?

 

　　Olga: I think so. Isn't it made, you know, with flour, you know, wheat flour and it's filled with something like corn or something?

 

　　Daniel: Yeah, exactly. Well, you have the pastry¹ and then you can fill it with meat, onion, eggs or you can actually put olives² in it and then you put it in the oven³. It's really, really nice.

 

　　Olga: And do they sell sweet ones too?

 

　　Daniel: Yes, yes. Actually now we have even you can put vegetables in it.

 

　　Olga: Vegetables?

 

　　Daniel: Yeah.

 

　　Olga: Sweet?

 

　　Daniel: I mean sweets or vegetables.

 

　　Olga: Or vegetables.

 

　　Daniel: Or meat, chicken.

 

　　Olga: OK.

 

　　Daniel: Yes. And it always has to go with a drink that is called chicha.

 

　　Olga: What is chicha?

 

　　Daniel: Chicha is kind of wine.

 

　　Olga: Yeah.

 

　　Daniel: It's made out of grapes or apple and it takes awhile to get, to become, you know, alcohol⁴ so if you drink it at the beginning it's just juice.

 

　　Olga: Juice.

 

　　Daniel: Yes.

 

　　Olga: I see.

1 pastry   

n.油酥面团，酥皮糕点

参考例句：

• The cook pricked a few holes in the pastry.厨师在馅饼上戳了几个洞。
• The pastry crust was always underdone.馅饼的壳皮常常烤得不透。

2 olives   

n.橄榄( olive的名词复数 )；橄榄树；橄榄色；油橄榄

参考例句：

• We sat drinking wine and nibbling olives. 我们坐在那儿，喝着葡萄酒嚼着橄榄。
• He sent her two pieces of olives in letter. 他在信中给她夹了两片橄榄树的叶子。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 oven   

n.烤炉；烤箱

参考例句：

• You put food inside an oven to cook it.你把食物放进烤箱里热一下。
• She baked bread in an oven.她用烤炉烤面包。

4 alcohol   

n.酒精，乙醇；含酒精的饮料

参考例句：

• The law forbids shops to sell alcohol to minors.法律禁止商店向未成年者出售含酒精的饮料。
• The alcohol is industrial.这些酒精是供工业用的。