VOA常速英语:Book Chronicles Men's Evolution from Bread-Winners to Bread-Bakers

短语讲解：

1. With many mothers working outside the home, more fathers - such as New Yorker editor and cartoonist John Donohue - are cooking for their families.

such as像, 例如
例句：We dislike people such as him.
我们不喜欢像他这号人。

2. So he asked more than two dozen fathers, writers and chefs who take charge in the kitchen to contribute to his book, "Man With a Pan: Culinary Adventures of Fathers Who Cook for Their Families."

take charge看管,负责,不受控制;主持
例句：He offered to take charge of all arrangements.
他主动提出来负责安排一切。
contribute to投稿; 为...写稿
例句：She has been contributing to the paper for 5 years.
五年以来,她一直在为那家报纸撰搞。

3. That led to his first book, which actually put him on the map as a writer.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：An ordinary cold can soon lead to a fever.
一场普通的感冒很快便会引起高烧。
put on穿上, 戴上; 把…放在…上
例句：The trees have put on their new coats of green.
树木披上了新绿。

4. He has great advice: 'Don’t set the kitchen on fire.'

set on fire使燃烧
例句：Some sparks from a passing train set the haystack on fire.
一列过往火车迸发出的一些火花点着了干草堆。

5. “I grew up in a Hausa Muslim community," says Ali.

grow up 长大, 成熟
例句：Tom wants to be a coach when he grows up.
汤姆长大后想当教练。

6. In our community, it’s highly frowned upon for men to be in the kitchen. But my mother allowed me to hang around while she cooked.

frown upon蹙眉而露出不悦之色,表示不赞成
例句：I am sure your father would frown upon such a proposal.
我肯定你父亲不会赞成这样一个建议。
hang around闲逛; 闲待着
例句：Tom is hanging around in the street.
汤姆在街头闲逛。

7. I've actually kind of compared cooking to writing.

compare to把…比作, 喻为
例句：Life is compared to a voyage.
人生好比航海。

8. In writing, you have a blank page for you to start with. In cooking, you have an empty pot to creatively start thinking of what you would like to put in the pot, to mix it together to create some food.

think of有…想法, 有…看法
例句：We are thinking of going to Spain for our holiday this year.
我们今年打算到西班牙度假。

9. “One of the things you discover when you start to cook is that following a recipe wasn’t simply a matter of measuring out cups and tablespoons," says Hitt.

measure out 量出, 配出
例句：The pharmacist carefully measured out a dose of herbal medicine and told me how to brew it.
药剂师仔细地配好一服草药, 并告诉我煎药的方法。

10. All of a sudden I found that there was this little kid in the room who had been watching me doing this from a chair, confined, and suddenly was very interested in participating.

all of a sudden突然地, 突如其来地, 猛然地
例句：He was writing his essay when, all of a sudden, he was seized with giddiness.
他正在写论文, 突然一阵头晕。
be interested in对…感兴趣
例句：He is interested in sports.
他爱好运动。

11. Cooking is like everything else. You just need to do it all the time to get good at it.

good at擅长…
例句：He is good at languages.
他善于学语言。

12. Donohue, the book’s editor, expects more fathers will take up cooking as the need grows and as society becomes more accepting of "A Man With a Pan."

take up开始从事
例句：When did he take up football?
他是什么时候开始踢足球的?