时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:初学者听力文摘精选


英语课

Yael: Don, are you eating my tulips?



Don: Just having myself a little snack.



Y: Of MY tulips? I brought those in here to brighten the place up, not for you to eat! And who eats flowers anyway?



D: Have you seen that movie, Monsoon 1 Wedding? There's a character who eats marigolds. And the other night at dinner I saw a guy with an orchid 2 on the rim 3 of his drink. The bartender said it was edible 4. And so I've done some investigating, and it turns out that many flowers are edible.



Y: Like what?



D: Tulips, for instance. And lilacs and pansies and roses. Oh, plenty of flowers are edible.



Y: But why should anyone eat flowers? Do they have any nutritional 5 value or are they delicious?



D: Most people don't eat flowers in large enough quantities to get too much from them nutritionally, but yes, flowers do contain nutrients 6--some more than others. Rosehips, for instance, are loaded with Vitamin C. In general, pollen 7 is full of protein and tastes bland 8. Nectar is composed of sugars and some trace minerals, so it's usually sweet.



Y: And the petals 9?



D: Petals can be bitter, sweet, savory 10, hot, or bland, you name it. The taste varies from flower to flower. And some petals are good sources of nutrients. Yellow flowers, for example, contain a lot of Vitamin A.



Y: You said SOME flowers are edible. What about the ones that aren't?



D: Other flowers are poisonous. Also, if you show signs of an allergic 11 reaction when you touch a particular flower--say, you develop a rash, then keep that kind of flower away from your plate! Use caution before you start serving up your flower garden for dinner.



1 monsoon
n.季雨,季风,大雨
  • The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。
  • The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。
2 orchid
n.兰花,淡紫色
  • The orchid is a class of plant which I have never tried to grow.兰花这类植物我从来没种过。
  • There are over 35 000 species of orchid distributed throughout the world.有35,000多种兰花分布在世界各地。
3 rim
n.(圆物的)边,轮缘;边界
  • The water was even with the rim of the basin.盆里的水与盆边平齐了。
  • She looked at him over the rim of her glass.她的目光越过玻璃杯的边沿看着他。
4 edible
n.食品,食物;adj.可食用的
  • Edible wild herbs kept us from dying of starvation.我们靠着野菜才没被饿死。
  • This kind of mushroom is edible,but that kind is not.这种蘑菇吃得,那种吃不得。
5 nutritional
adj.营养的,滋养的
  • A diet lacking in nutritional value will not keep a person healthy.缺乏营养价值的饮食不能维持人的健康。
  • The labels on food products give a lot of information about their nutritional content.食品上的标签提供很多关于营养成分的信息。
6 nutrients
n.(食品或化学品)营养物,营养品( nutrient的名词复数 )
  • a lack of essential nutrients 基本营养的缺乏
  • Nutrients are absorbed into the bloodstream. 营养素被吸收进血液。 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 pollen
n.[植]花粉
  • Hummingbirds have discovered that nectar and pollen are very nutritious.蜂鸟发现花蜜和花粉是很有营养的。
  • He developed an allergy to pollen.他对花粉过敏。
8 bland
adj.淡而无味的,温和的,无刺激性的
  • He eats bland food because of his stomach trouble.他因胃病而吃清淡的食物。
  • This soup is too bland for me.这汤我喝起来偏淡。
9 petals
n.花瓣( petal的名词复数 )
  • white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣
  • The petals of many flowers expand in the sunshine. 许多花瓣在阳光下开放。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
10 savory
adj.风味极佳的,可口的,味香的
  • She placed a huge dish before him of savory steaming meat.她将一大盘热气腾腾、美味可口的肉放在他面前。
  • He doesn't have a very savory reputation.他的名誉不太好。
11 allergic
adj.过敏的,变态的
  • Alice is allergic to the fur of cats.艾丽斯对猫的皮毛过敏。
  • Many people are allergic to airborne pollutants such as pollen.许多人对空气传播的污染物过敏,比如花粉。
学英语单词
acidity index
actuator motor
Aguamilpa
air manifold
ampul(e)
an open city
anti-corrosion plug
anti-slip device
ATSL
auto-catalytic reactor
balneations
battle of wills
be bankrupt in
bekaa valley
bitter acids
breathablest
britty
carrier displacement
cerium stearate
check bouncer
chin rest
coeloptychiums
coherence states
come forward
cytospora abietis sacc.
device time-out request
diazo printing equipment
dibutyl carbitol(DBC)
director-general of fair trading
discrimination error
disespoused
Duckworth's syndrome
earthscope
easy as my eye
economic classics
egglestons
facsimile marking machine
fellow trader commission
fibre tip
folmar
former office
franconite
gas stocks and dies
geographical attribute
Göktepe
hydrargyrum oleatum
hydrogen gas purity control
hypercapnic acidosis
ides of March
impregnated tape metal arc wele
inclined grate type gas producer
Kaufland
Kerme Körfezi
kiliya veki (chilia veche)
lanius collurio
laterite soil
lift
light hand
limphatic
loewen
man made pollution sources
metallic currency
metecorn
movable antenna
nonrestorable
Northeast Providence Chan.
oligochaetologists
one-sixteenth-inch
outstrokes
parfect
party hats
Peter Ilich Tchaikovsky
plenish
pluviameters
Pontevedra, Prov.de
prismatic middle body
Rainey's tubules
round-cell polyp
Sassafras randaiense
Saxifraga brachyphylla
scina marginata
Sennockian
service ticket
silicon tetraethyl
soapbubble
Soda Creek
solar chromosphere
speak someone's language
Staphaurex
stiffened
strachans
suppurative infection of mediastinum
Sφnder Dråby
the leading role
ticals
totally ordered group
tribute bands
TSC (turbine sequence control)
ultrapious
unpleasant odor
var. pancreas accessorium
wet cloth