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Are you hungry? How about a pizza? Just be careful if you go to Bella Napoli， an Italian restaurant in the Scottish city of Glasgow. If you order a pizza there, it could cost you more than ￡2,000 (or 30,000 Yuan).

Chef Domenico Crolla has created what he hopes will be the world's most expensive pizza. The base of the pizza is handmade dough¹ and the toppings include caviar, Scottish smoked salmon², lobster³ marinated in cognac and venison medallions – all apparently⁴ very pricey nibbles⁵ that James Bond enjoys. The pizza even has thin slices of gold on it as its final touch.

Chef Crolla has dubbed⁶ his creation 'The Pizza Royale 007' in honour of the new James Bond film which has just been released in Britain. The Chef said 'If any pizza was made to suit 007, this is it.'

But what made him want to create such an expensive meal? For Domenico, it's all about charity. He's hoping to raise money for a good cause. He's going to be donating all the money for the pizza to The Fred Hollows Foundation, a charity which helps blind people in developing countries.

His pizza will be on eBay (the online auction⁷ website) until the 19th of November, giving people around the world the chance to bid for this one-off creation.

If you're the lucky winning bidder⁸, you'll have the option of having the pizza prepared for you in one of Domenico's restaurants in Glasgow or having him deliver it to your home.

In an exclusive interview with BBC Learning English he said he would even hand deliver this pizza to China so that he could set another world record for the longest distance ever travelled to deliver a pizza. He visited Hong Kong as part of his 40th birthday celebrations in June 2006 and says he's very keen to visit China again soon.

But if even a slice of this pizza is too expensive for you, you could instead try one of Scotland's other famous dishes – a deep fried Mars bar. That's a cold chocolate bar deep fried in batter⁹ which you can buy for the more modest price of just 75 pence (or about 12 Yuan).

GLOSSARY 词汇表

created 创造

base 面底   

handmade dough 手和面

caviar 鱼子酱 

smoked salmon 熏烤三文鱼

lobster marinated in cognac 优质白兰地柯纳克淹泡的龙虾 

venison medallions （加工后成方圆形的）鹿肉  

pricey nibbles 昂贵的小吃   

dubbed 命名 

to suit 适应  

charity 慈善事业  

a good cause 公益事业    

blind people 盲人

developing countries 发展中国家 

to bid 投标/出价竞买 

one-off creation 一次性举创 

exclusive 独家的  

deep-fried in batter 裹面糊油炸的

set another world record 创新世界纪录  

modest price 低价

1 dough   

n.生面团；钱，现款

参考例句：

• She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
• The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。

2 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

3 lobster   

n.龙虾，龙虾肉

参考例句：

• The lobster is a shellfish.龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
• I like lobster but it does not like me.我喜欢吃龙虾，但它不适宜于我的健康。

4 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

5 nibbles   

vt.& vi.啃，一点一点地咬（nibble的第三人称单数形式）

参考例句：

• A fish nibbles at the bait. 一条鱼在轻轻地啃鱼饵。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Units of four bits are sometimes referred to as nibbles. 有时将四位数字组成的单元叫做半字节。 来自辞典例句

6 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 auction   

n.拍卖；拍卖会；vt.拍卖

参考例句：

• They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
• They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。

8 bidder   

n.(拍卖时的)出价人，报价人，投标人

参考例句：

• TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder.电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。
• The bidder withdrew his bid after submission of his bid.投标者在投标之后撤销了投标书。

9 batter   

v.接连重击；磨损；n.牛奶面糊；击球员

参考例句：

• The batter skied to the center fielder.击球手打出一个高飞球到中外野手。
• Put a small quantity of sugar into the batter.在面糊里放少量的糖。