ESL杰夫的一天 第33期:吃早餐讲解(8)

 　　Other people in a restaurant may call them utensils¹. 饭店里的人可能会把它们叫做器皿。

　　Utensils, "utensils." If you go to a restaurant and you sit down and you don't have a spoon or a fork or a knife, 器皿（utensils）。如果你坐在饭店里，你没有刀叉勺，

　　you would ask the waiter or waitress for some utensils, or you could just say, "I need some silverware." 你会向服务员要一些器皿，或者你就说，“我需要一些银器。”

　　A silverware tray², "tray," is a place where you put the silverware—you put the utensils, the forks, the spoons, the knives—in a drawer. 银碟（tray），是你放银器的地方——你把器皿、刀叉勺放进抽屉里。

　　And, usually a tray is like a little box that has holes in it for specific³ things. 而且，碟子一般类似于用来放专门物品的有洞小盒子。

　　That word, tray, can also be used⁴ to describe a small, flat piece of plastic or wood that you use to carry things on, like your dishes. 碟子这个字，也可以用来形容你用来端东西的、小又平的塑料或木质盘子。

　　Well, I get my spoon, and I go out and I get my newspaper, which, of course, is what has the news, the sports, and the international and national news. 嗯，我拿到了调羹，然后去外面拿报纸，那上面当然会有各种新闻——体育、国内外新闻。

　　Many Americans like to read a newspaper in the morning, just like people all over the world do. 和世界其他国家的人一样，很多美国人早上喜欢读报。

　　I "sit down at the kitchen table" and I read the paper. 我“坐在餐桌旁”读报。

　　Sometimes we call a newspaper just the paper. 有时我们把报纸简称为报。

　　Someone says, "I read it in the paper this morning," they mean the newspaper. 要是有人说“我今天早上在‘报’上看到的，”他们实际上是说在“报纸”上。

1 utensils   

器具，用具，器皿( utensil的名词复数 )； 器物

参考例句：

• Formerly most of our household utensils were made of brass. 以前我们家庭用的器皿多数是用黄铜做的。
• Some utensils were in a state of decay when they were unearthed. 有些器皿在出土时已经残破。

2 tray   

n.盘，托盘，碟

参考例句：

• There were two glasses of champagne on the tray.托盘里有两杯香槟酒。
• A waitress came in,carrying tea on a tray.一名女侍者走进来，手端放着茶的托盘。

3 specific   

adj.明确的；具体的；特定的

参考例句：

• The money is to be used for specific purposes.这笔钱有专门用途。
• We haven't fixed a specific date for our meeting.我们会议的具体日期还没有定下来。

4 used   

adj.用旧了的，旧的；习惯于…；过去惯/经常

参考例句：

• I used to work until nearly 6:00 o'clock each day.我过去常常工作到6:00左右。
• He used to walk anywhere from two to five miles an hour.他过去经常一小时走二至五英里。