【英音模仿秀】生菜沙拉 你值得拥有

模仿文本： 

For at least 5,000 years people around the world have cultivated lettuce¹ leaves, a food with an ancestry² that can be traced from the ancient Egyptians through to Greek and Roman civilisations and on to us. No wonder some people have a thing about eating leaves.

 

译文：

世界各地的人们种植生菜已经有至少5000年了。生菜的历史可以追溯到古埃及，经过希腊和罗马文明之后又到了我们现在。难怪一些人对吃菜叶子有种情结。

 

1 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。

2 ancestry   

n.祖先，家世

参考例句：

• Their ancestry settled the land in 1856.他们的祖辈1856年在这块土地上定居下来。
• He is an American of French ancestry.他是法国血统的美国人。