ESL露西的一天 第92期:晚餐与甜点讲解(7)

 Whenever you have something that you bake, such as bread or cookies, it begins with cookie dough¹. 无论何时你烘焙东西，比如面包或饼干，都是从面团开始的。

That's the cookie before it is baked. 那是烘焙之前，饼干的样子。

Lucy says she shapes the dough. 露西说她捏面团。  

To shape, "shape," means to change something - to take something and to make it look different.  塑形，就是改变某样东西——采取某些做法，让它看上去有所变化。

Here, Lucy is shaping "the dough into circles" - into round cookies. 这里，露西正把“面团捏成圆形”——变成圆形的饼干。

She puts "them on the cookie sheet," and then she puts "the pan" - the cookie sheet in "the oven." 她把“它们放在烤盘上”，让然后把“烤盘”放进“烤箱”。

"After about 15 minutes," Lucy puts on her "oven mitts³" and takes "the pan out."  “大约15分钟后”，露西带上她的“烤箱手套”把“烤盘”拿出来。

An oven mitt², "mitt," is like a glove.   烤箱手套，“连指手套”，就像手套。

It is a very thick piece of material, sometimes like a thick towel that you can use to pick up something that is very hot.   它是一块非常厚的材料，有时候像一条厚毛巾，你可以用来拿起非常烫的东西。

You don't want to burn your hands, so you put on oven mitts. 你不想烫伤手，就带上烤箱手套。

We also use that word, mitts, when talking about gloves that you wear that don't have a separate space for each finger.   当我们谈论不是每个手指都有独立空间的手套时，我们也用“连指手套”这个词。

A glove, technically⁴, is something you put over your hand, and each finger you can move separately.   严格来说，手套就是你戴在手上，每个手指都可以分开移动的东西。

With a mitt, you put your hand in and you can move your thumb, but the four fingers are all together inside the mitt.  连指手套，你把手伸进去，拇指可以活动，但是其他四个手指都在一起。

Well, this is an oven mitt, used to take hot things out of the oven. 是的，这是一个烤箱手套，用于取出烤箱中烫手的食物。

1 dough   

n.生面团；钱，现款

参考例句：

• She formed the dough into squares.她把生面团捏成四方块。
• The baker is kneading dough.那位面包师在揉面。

2 mitt   

n.棒球手套，拳击手套，无指手套；vt.铐住，握手

参考例句：

• I gave him a baseball mitt for his birthday.为祝贺他的生日，我送给他一只棒球手套。
• Tom squeezed a mitt and a glove into the bag.汤姆把棒球手套和手套都塞进袋子里。

3 mitts   

n.露指手套，棒球手套，拳击手套( mitt的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• I'd love to get my mitts on one of those. 我很想得到一个那样的东西。
• Those are my cigarettes; get your mitts off them. 那是我的香烟，别动它。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

4 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。