【英语时差8,16】不易消化的食物-下

Diarmuid: I suppose that’s true Feifei. Lots of foreign people would describe British food as stodgy¹. When you think about it lots of British dishes are stodgy. Things like pies,puddings,roast dinners. Example A: Would you like some Christmas pudding? B: Not for me thanks. It’s far too stodgy. A: Oh I feel so full up I can barely² move. B: You shouldn’t eat so much stodgy food at lunchtime. A: Yes, tomorrow I’ll have a salad. Feifei: So do you like stodgy food, Diarmuid? Diarmuid: Sometimes, yes. Like the steak and kidney³ pie I was eating for lunch. Actually there was so much pie I couldn’t finish it. Would you like some? Feifei: Yes please.Hmmm. Diarmuid: Here you are

 

1 stodgy   

adj.易饱的；笨重的；滞涩的；古板的

参考例句：

• It wasn't easy to lose puppy fat when Mum fed her on stodgy home cooking.母亲给她吃易饱的家常菜，她想减掉婴儿肥可是很难。
• The gateman was a stodgy fellow of 60.看门人是个六十岁的矮胖子。

2 barely   

adv.仅仅，几乎没有，几乎不

参考例句：

• The male bird is barely distinguishable from the female.雄鸟和雌鸟几乎无法辨别。
• He took barely enough money to keep the children in bread.他赚很少的钱仅够孩子们勉强糊口。

3 kidney   

n.肾，腰子，类型

参考例句：

• Several of the patients had received kidney transplant.病人中有几位已接受了肾移植手术。
• The operation to transplant a kidney is now fairly routine.肾脏移植手术如今已相当常见。