初中英语新目标八年级下讲解版17

[16:55.31]在每一段的主要意思前面“ ”。
[17:02.97]Paragraph 1
[17:05.33]第一段
[17:07.68]Different food cultures between China and western countries.
[17:10.93]在中国和西方国家之间有着不同的饮食文化。
[17:14.18]Paragraph 2
[17:15.38]第二段
[17:16.58]The idea of sharing food.
[17:19.16]均分食物的想法。
[17:21.73]Paragraph 3
[17:22.98]第三段
[17:24.24]Food culture in England.
[17:26.84]英格兰的饮食文化。
[17:29.44]Paragraph 4
[17:30.60]第四段
[17:31.76]How food looks and tastes.
[17:33.97]食品的外观和味道。
[17:36.18]3 Match the words and expressions with their meanings.
[17:39.28]把单词与其解释用线连起来，
[17:42.39]Then make sentences with the words and expressions.
[18:01.32]然后用这些单词和短语造句子。（见教科书）
[18:20.24]4 Go through the reading and decide if these sentences are true or false.
[18:27.89]仔细读文章，确定这些句子是对或是错。
[18:35.53]In England, you order food to share with another person.
[18:43.62]在英格兰，你点菜与另外一个人共同享用。
[18:51.72]In a Chinese restaurant, what you see is what you get.
[18:55.75]在中国餐馆里，你看见的就是你得到的。
[18:59.77]In England, ordering the wrong thing is not a problem .
[19:05.78]在英格兰，点错菜不是问题。
[19:11.78]After eating Chinese food, you might say, "I ate..."
[19:19.41]吃了中国菜之后，你可以说：“我吃 ...”。
[19:27.04]In England, restaurant often describe food like it's something new.
[19:55.63]在英格兰，餐馆通常把实物描述得很新奇。
[20:24.22]Food cultures
[20:27.04]My name is Tony. I'm from England, and I teach English in China.
[20:33.05]A friend from England wrote me recently.
[20:36.58]She said she had been to a restaurant.
[20:39.58]I noticed she said "I ate..." not "we ate...".
[20:43.74]It made me think about differences in food cultures between China
[20:47.55]and western countries.
[20:49.12]In England, your food is brought to you on your own plate.
[20:53.71]Your usually eat it yourself.
[20:56.12]Ordering the wrong thing can be a problem.
[20:59.51]For example, something might sound nice on the menu.
[21:03.93]When it comes to your table,
[21:02.93]you might find the combination of flavors is wrong,
[21:06.04]you don't like it, or isn't what you wanted.
[21:09.77]Yet what you ordered is yours and you have to do your best to eat it.
[21:14.92]Here in China the question is not "What will I have?"
[21:19.62]It is rather "What will we have?"
[21:22.60]Friends order food to share, not to eat separately.
[21:27.09]My friends know what I like to eat.
[21:30.10]If I don't like what they order,
[21:32.42]it isn't a problem because there are other dishes I can choose from.
[21:36.52]The meal is not for one, but for many to enjoy.
[21:40.47]I remember
[21:42.06]when I took two Chinese friends who had just arrived in England out to eat.
[21:46.66]We had lunch at a village inn where the food was very good.
[21:51.57]They wanted to share each dish.
[21:54.28]If we had been in China, we could have done so,
[21:57.39]but in England it isn't polite to eat from each other's plate.
[22:01.70]Also different flavors may not go well together.
[22:05.62]In England, restaurant menus often describe food like it's something new.
[22:11.47]Sometimes the name and appearance of food is more important than how good it is.
[22:16.78]In China, it's my feeling that a dish is a dish.
[22:21.09]It comes just as it is.
[22:23.12]It is a combination of ingredients cooked in a special way.
[22:27.22]What you see is what you get.
[22:29.65]My English friends think that I now prefer the Chinese way of eating.
[22:34.25]They say that I am "going native".
[22:36.86]Perhaps they are right!