时间:2019-02-16 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力文摘 English Digest


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  At a local supermarket, two women push half-filled grocery carts. The ladies are good friends, but they couldn't be more different. One is a stay-at-home housewife who loves to create culinary masterpieces from scratch. The other is a training supervisor 1 at a prestigious 2 advertising 3 agency. Household chores, particularly those in the kitchen, are not her idea of fun. The two ladies stop for a moment in the frozen foods section. "I'm so tired," sighs the professional woman. "I don't know what to do about supper." Her friend suggests, "What about a microwave dinner?" The weary professional sighs, "No, I don't feel like cooking tonight."

If you think American cooking means opening a package and tossing the contents into the microwave, think again. On the one hand, it's true that Americans thrive on cold cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch and instant dinners.On the other hand, many Americans recognize the value of cooking skills. Most Americans will admit that there's nothing better than a good home-cooked meal. But with cooking, as with any other skill, good results don't happen by accident.

For those who need guidance in their cooking, or for those who have just run out of ideas, recipes are lifesavers. Recipes list all the ingredients for a dish (generally in the order used), the amount of each to use, and a description of how to put them together. Finding recipes in America is as easy as pie.Friends often augment 4 their recipe collection by passing around their favorites written on cards.

For experienced cooks, true artists that they are, recipes are merely reference points. They often make adjustments as they go along, depending on the quantity of people they need to serve, the ingredients they have available and their personal taste. Some cooks use recipes very little, preferring instead to depend on their intuition as they add a pinch of this and a dash of that to create just the right flavors.

Of course, Americans don't have a corner on the market when it comes to good cooking. Wherever you go in the world, people love to eat. As a result, every culture and nationality has its own share of mouth-watering delicacies 5.But whatever the dialect, cooking is a language everyone understands.



n.监督人,管理人,检查员,督学,主管,导师
  • Between you and me I think that new supervisor is a twit.我们私下说,我认为新来的主管人是一个傻瓜。
  • He said I was too flighty to be a good supervisor.他说我太轻浮不能成为一名好的管理员。
adj.有威望的,有声望的,受尊敬的
  • The young man graduated from a prestigious university.这个年轻人毕业于一所名牌大学。
  • You may even join a prestigious magazine as a contributing editor.甚至可能会加入一个知名杂志做编辑。
n.广告业;广告活动 a.广告的;广告业务的
  • Can you give me any advice on getting into advertising? 你能指点我如何涉足广告业吗?
  • The advertising campaign is aimed primarily at young people. 这个广告宣传运动主要是针对年轻人的。
vt.(使)增大,增加,增长,扩张
  • They hit upon another idea to augment their income.他们又想出一个增加收入的办法。
  • The government's first concern was to augment the army and auxiliary forces.政府首先关心的是增强军队和辅助的力量。
n.棘手( delicacy的名词复数 );精致;精美的食物;周到
  • Its flesh has exceptional delicacies. 它的肉异常鲜美。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • After these delicacies, the trappers were ready for their feast. 在享用了这些美食之后,狩猎者开始其大餐。 来自英汉非文学 - 民俗
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ablephary
adnater
aloe striata
alphasubstitution
aluminum core
anoplophora horsfieldi tonkinensis
antishrinking process
astragalan
barge to truck transfer
beer baron
bicmos-pjfet technology
briefing bright
calcifying epithelioma
chastity ring
cloning vector
construction level
crazy like a fox
cryogenic accelerometer
day reconstruction method
dodgerblues
drainage collecting tank
dump snapshot
eastern hajar (al hajar ash sharqi)
enhancement-mode field effect transistor
entra
epheboi
factor score
failure of fuel
fill right
flexible cover
fly in the face of sth
flywheel synchronization
galeus sauteri
general accounting department
group coherence
half smile
heading of station
headlining
heavily reinforced
impairing
inputoutput list
integral linearity
intermediate frequency signal
intersection of dislocation
kirie
leg-fin
lokhars
lumbosacral radiculitis
maestro di cappella
magnetic anomaly detector (mad)
Malyy Taymyr, Ostrov
masked man
megatomostethus maurus
melias
metalia spatagus
microsound theory
microweighing
N-acetylneuraminic acid
nanosprays
Napier Mountains
net assimilation
network interconnecting
no trump
O.A.S.
opmnpv
p-Butoxyphenol
phyllachora bauhiniae
plight your troth
Predaltayskaya Ravnina
presbytess
primary capacitor
proprietary point of view
pseudoglottis
purple sand
recent studies on
rhinesuchid
Romeyn
running lift
ruptured bourdon tube
rusa
show one's paces
single-side rack
Sivaganga
Sphacelotheca reiliana
stood on ceremony
storage system
strength in static bending
stressed system
Suspension Insulators
The noes have it.
Tirotricina
tom-tit
unwrought
uranotantal (samarskite)
venditive
vertuest
visagiste
water pump impeller spring
wave subbuer
work shop appliance
Yak-38
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