时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

We are very happy.

...It's very good, thank you very much...

Call him crazy, a Chinese villager , left school at 12, running a Tex-Mex restaurant? 26 year old Peter Luo has banked his future on selling burritos to Beijing. Yes, you can certainly call him crazy.

Peter Luo: My financing education is zero, I only know how to count it zero to ten.

But don't laugh too soon, this culinary quirk 1, a Tex-Mex Chinese is catching 2 on.

We're thoroughly 3 amazed by (ur) the fact that he...um,he, stopped his education at the age of 12 and he's been hugely successful like this at the...at 23 he said now, so we're in awe 4 of him."

"...we have some similarities..."

These American MBA students are studying Peter Luo as a real-life textbook case of making it in the new China. Little education and younger than most of the students themselves, Peter is putting into practice what they are still learning about.

Our group has come to China to try to understand how do things work, how does business work?

So whatever you do...you pay more attention...",

Peter has a simple lesson for them, a motivation that is driving a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs.

I am so afraid ( of ) getting poor...

Peter Luo knows all about being poor, he comes from a small village in southwest China, his family are farmers. But Peter's life changed when he met a woman he now calls "his American mother".

Meredith Dunton from Texas, (地名) came to China to teach Engilsh, ran an American food restaurant in Beijing. Peter worked as a cook, but Merry Dove saw much more in him. She sent him to culinary school, taught him the tricks of Texas cooking. With her guidance and finacial backing, from that, has come all of this.

I can't pay anything back, but at least I can ,you know, really respect in what she (has) done on me, so I want to call her 'mother'.

One restaurant is now 3, Peter dreams of opening a chain like KFC or Mcdonald's ,a testament 5 to Peter's hard work, but also to a changing China.

China is getting more open, Chinese people are getting changed, developed, and their economy getting,er, changed too, so people want(s) to try special things,new things.

And now, for the taste test.

Best meal we've had in China..."

One of the benefits of doing a story on someone who owns a restaurant is getting to taste the finished products. So,here it goes! It tastes like that, the future is certainly as big as Texas.

Stan Grant, CNN, Beijing.



1 quirk
n.奇事,巧合;古怪的举动
  • He had a strange quirk of addressing his wife as Mrs Smith.他很怪,把自己的妻子称作史密斯夫人。
  • The most annoying quirk of his is wearing a cap all the time.他最令人感到厌恶的怪癖就是无论何时都戴著帽子。
2 catching
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
3 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
4 awe
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
5 testament
n.遗嘱;证明
  • This is his last will and testament.这是他的遗愿和遗嘱。
  • It is a testament to the power of political mythology.这说明,编造政治神话可以产生多大的威力。
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