英语悠选脱口秀 第45期:十大奇葩月饼

 　　讲解

　　今天的节目呢，我们来看看月饼界的十大明星。

　　Full of joy and happiness, friends and loved ones gather to celebrate a time when the moon is at its fullest and brightest of the whole year. Eating mooncakes is a not-to-miss part of Mid-Autumn Festival. But people are quite tired of eating traditional mooncakes. Instead, people are trying innovative¹ mooncakes with special flavors.

　　Let's have a look at the 10 weirdest² mooncakes.

　　10. Chocolate mooncake with spicy³ beef filling（巧克力香辣牛肉）

　　9. Sour（酸） and spicy mooncake(酸辣)

　　The sourness of the mooncake filling is from pickled vegetables and hawthorns（山楂）. The spiciness⁴ is made from a chilli sauce（辣椒酱） like the famous brand Lao Gan Ma.

　　8. Fermented⁵ bean curd⁶ mooncake （豆腐乳）

　　This is a variant⁷ of a kind of pastry⁸ made with fermented bean curd popular in Chaoshan, Guangdong province. The pastry is usually used as a sacrificial offering（祭品） by local people on the first day and the middle day of each month.

　　7. Mooncake with fillings of cream, truffle and goose liver（奶酥松露鹅肝）

　　The "Louis Vuttion" of mooncakes is made with expensive ingredients（原料） of truffle（松露） and goose liver（鹅肝）.

　　6. Mooncake with leek⁹ egg filling（韭菜鸡蛋）

　　Scrambled¹⁰ egg（炒鸡蛋） is a popular filling for Chinese Jiaozi (dumpling). But for the first time, scrambled egg is being used for the traditional Mid-Autumn day dessert（甜点）.

　　5. "Shiren" mooncake 十仁月饼

　　"Shiren" mooncakes have 10 kinds of nuts, doubling the traditional "Wuren" mooncake with 5 kinds of nuts. It's four to six times larger than traditional mooncakes, and implies（蕴含着） best wishes of "perfect in every respect".

　　4. Mooncake stuffed with braised pork and preserved vegetable in Soya sauce（梅菜扣肉）

　　Braised pork with preserved vegetable in soya sauce, or "meicaikourou" is a famous Chinese dish. The one made this special filling for mooncake must be a super fan of this dish.

　　3. Bamboo charcoal¹¹ mooncake （竹炭）

　　This mooncake is made by putting bamboo charcoal powder（竹炭粉） into the mooncake when baking. It's said to have the function of absorbing toxins（毒素） inside our bodies.

　　2. Instant noodle mooncake（方便面）

　　Putting instant noodles into the traditional mooncake will surely give you a special experience. The mooncakes are also marked with Chinese characters, "Diao Si".

　　1. Mooncakes with bean-taste filling fried with tomatoes（月饼炒西红柿）

　　The canteen of Civil Aviation University of China had put forward a dish which fried mooncake pieces stuffed with sweet bean taste and tomatoes before decorating them with caraway（香菜）. The dish became a hit on the Internet and is called the weirdest mooncakes.（最怪异月饼）

　　你有没有想尝试一下的品种啊？

1 innovative   

adj.革新的，新颖的，富有革新精神的

参考例句：

• Discover an innovative way of marketing.发现一个创新的营销方式。
• He was one of the most creative and innovative engineers of his generation.他是他那代人当中最富创造性与革新精神的工程师之一。

2 weirdest   

怪诞的( weird的最高级 )； 神秘而可怕的； 超然的； 古怪的

参考例句：

• Think of the weirdest, craziest shit you'd like to see chicks do. 想想这最怪异，最疯狂的屁事。你会喜欢看这些鸡巴表演的。
• It's still the weirdest damn sound I ever heard out of a Jersey boy. 这是我所听过新泽西人最为怪异的音调了。

3 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。

4 spiciness   

n.香馥，富于香料；香味

参考例句：

• For that extra spiciness, add powdered nutmeg to taste. 至于要得到那种额外的香味，酌量加入肉豆蔻粉。 来自互联网
• Aside from a graph a thermometer will be used to show spiciness. 除了文字标记以外，还将用温度表图像形象地表达辣度。 来自互联网

5 fermented   

v.（使）发酵( ferment的过去式和过去分词 )；（使）激动；骚动；骚扰

参考例句：

• When wine is fermented, it gives off gas. 酒发酵时发出气泡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• His speeches fermented trouble among the workers. 他的演讲在工人中引起骚动。 来自辞典例句

6 curd   

n.凝乳；凝乳状物

参考例句：

• I'd like to add some pepper to the bean curd.我想在豆腐里加一点辣椒粉。
• The next one is bean curd with crab roe.下一个是蟹黄豆腐。

7 variant   

adj.不同的，变异的；n.变体，异体

参考例句：

• We give professional suggestions according to variant tanning stages for each customer.我们针对每位顾客不同的日晒阶段，提供强度适合的晒黑建议。
• In a variant of this approach,the tests are data- driven.这个方法的一个变种，是数据驱动的测试。

8 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。

9 leek   

n.韭葱

参考例句：

• He is always confusing wheat with leek.他对麦苗和韭菜总是辨别不清。
• He said the dumplings with the stuffing of pork and leek were his favourite.他说他喜欢吃猪肉韭菜馅的饺子。

10 scrambled   

v.快速爬行( scramble的过去式和过去分词 )；攀登；争夺；（军事飞机）紧急起飞

参考例句：

• Each scrambled for the football at the football ground. 足球场上你争我夺。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He scrambled awkwardly to his feet. 他笨拙地爬起身来。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 charcoal   

n.炭，木炭，生物炭

参考例句：

• We need to get some more charcoal for the barbecue.我们烧烤需要更多的碳。
• Charcoal is used to filter water.木炭是用来过滤水的。