實戰(zhàn)口語情景對話：Food 食物

I think food is such a great subject, such an interesting subject. I mean, food is something that everyone has to do. It's a life necessity, and actually because of that it can be a real hassle, like when you have to eat when you're hungry but you really can't be bothered to make anything. You can't go out and buy anything. You don't have the money to go out and buy anything is the worst thing, but when you're not in that situation food is great. Um, I'm just sort of thinking over all the different types of food I've eaten throughout my life and the sort of real spread, range of food, throughout different countries. I mean, I come from England where, I wouldn't say England really had a very specific scene of it's own. I think, you know, very nice English restaurant food is probably more like French restaurant food. The only sort of staple things that everyone knows comes from England are obviously Fish and Chips which actually, normal English people don't eat that much of. I probably eat Fish and Chips 3 times a year. Maybe if I lived a bit further north, I'd eat it once a week, but that is known as the sort of number one English dish. Although that's really junk food, and I think a good roast with gravy , Yorkshire pudding, baked potatoes. I see that as proper English food, but just thinking, now living in Japan, the difference between the food in England and the food in Japan, and then I've been brought up very much on like Chinese food as well. My mom always cooked lots of Chinese food, and in England of course, the number one favorite food is Indian curry, and all these different foods are so, so different from each other, just flavors, what you use, I mean, cooking here, is really depressing when it gets to about 7 o'clock in the evening here, cause I go down in the guest house I'm living in, and I walk into the kitchen area, and just the whole area smells amazing from where all the Japanese residents are cooking their normal Japanese meal, which are totally normal to them, but to a foreigner, they seem like these amazingly elaborate meals where I'm sure, like roast beef and Yorkshire pudding would seem the same to a Japanese person, but it's a pity really that sort of countries aren't more, sort of aware of sharing their food with each other. I mean when I get back to England, I'm gonna be in a whole load of trouble cause all the food I eat here, all the ingredients that I need, you can only get in Japan: they're specific Japanese vegetables, or in Asia at least, and I'm gonna have to get to very specific supermarkets to get even half the stuff I want and all the things like the nice vegetables I won't be even able to buy.

我認(rèn)為食物是一個非常棒的主題，一個非常有趣的主題。我的意思是，食物是所有人都需要的東西。它是生活必需品，實際上那也是一件麻煩事，因為你肚子的時候要吃東西，可是你卻懶得去做飯。你不能出去吃飯，也不能去買吃的。你沒有錢去外面吃，沒有錢去買吃的東西，這是最糟糕的事情，但是如果你不處于這種情況，那食物就是非常棒的東西了。我只是回想我人生中吃過的各種食物，食物的范圍，食物的種類，不同國家的食物。我是說，我來自英國，我認(rèn)為英國的食物并沒有自己獨特的地方。我認(rèn)為，你知道，一家非常棒的英國餐廳的食物可能更像法國餐廳的食物。大家認(rèn)為英國最基本的食物顯然是魚類和薯條，實際上這兩種食物，對普通英國人來說并不會食用太多。我一年可能吃三次魚和薯條。也許，如果我住在更靠北的地方，我可能一周吃一次，但是這兩樣卻被認(rèn)為是英國排在首位的食物。而實際上它們都是垃圾食品，我認(rèn)為烤肉配肉汁，約克夏布丁，烤土豆，這才是真正的英國食物，但是現(xiàn)在我生活在日本，我會想英國食物與日本食物的不同，而我在很大程度上，是吃中國食物長大的。我媽媽總是會烹飪很多的中國食物，而當(dāng)然在英國，最受歡迎的食物是印度咖喱，所有這些不同的事物，彼此之間完全不同，你使用的調(diào)料就不同，當(dāng)時間大約到了晚上七點以后，在日本做飯就變得讓人沮喪，因為，我下樓走到我住的客房的廚房，那里彌漫著香味，所有日本居民都在烹飪普通的日本食物，這些食物對他們來說很普通，但是對一個外國人來說，這些是非常精致的飯菜，當(dāng)然我確定，像烤牛肉和約克夏布丁對日本人來說也是一樣的有吸引力，但是非常遺憾的是，這些國家并沒有互相分享食物的意識。我是說，我回到英國的時候，我會有很多麻煩，因為我在日本吃的所有食物，需要的所有配料，都只有日本才有：他們都是日本特有的蔬菜，或至少是亞洲特有的，我只能去特定的超市買到我所需物品的一部分，而所有這些優(yōu)質(zhì)的蔬菜我都買不到。