【英语趣味课堂】寿司-Sushi

Todd: OK. Matthew, we are going to talk about food.

 

Matt: OK.

 

Todd: What kind of foods do you like?

 

Matt: Well, now I'm in Japan at the moment, I'm eating a lot of sushi.

 

Todd: OK.

 

Matt: I've only got two weeks left here so it's kind of suchi three times a week.

 

Todd: Oh, wow! You really love the stuff¹.

 

Matt: Yeah, it's fun. It's great.

 

Todd: Where do you eat sushi?

 

Matt: Well, we either buy it in a supermarket, kind of buy a tray², about a thousand yen³, or we'll go down to the conveyor belt restaurant just down the side the university on our way home.

 

Todd: OK.

 

Matt: Pick up a few plates.

 

Todd: The conveyor belt restaurant.

 

Matt: I don't know the Japanese word for that. We call it the conveyor belt restaurant.

 

Todd: When you go to sushi, how much does it cost?

 

Matt: Well, it's 130 yen for one plate, and usually there is two of us that go and usually we spend about one and a half thousand yen (1,500), about ten plates.

 

Todd: Ten plates!

 

Matt: Yeah! We like it!

 

学习内容：

 

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson

at the moment

 

I'm in Japan at the moment.

 

"At the moment" means⁴ "right now" or as we are speaking.  Notice the following:

 

Can I call you back?  I'm eating dinner at the moment.

Where are you at the moment?

two weeks left

 

I've only got two weeks left here.

 

If you only have "two weeks left" in a place you are only going to be there for two more weeks.  Notice the following:

 

We have only five weeks left of school.

There are only two weeks left to buy concert tickets.

it's great

 

It's fun, it's great.

 

If something is "great" it is very good.  This is a positive adjective⁵ similar to fantastic or wonderful.  Notice the following:

 

I just finished reading a great book.

His new apartment is great!

pick up

 

Pick up a few plates.

 

To "pick something up" is to hold it and lift it with your hands.  Notice the following:

 

Can you pick up that suitcase and put it in the car?  It's really heavy.

She picked up her sister from the chair.

call

 

We call it the conveyor belt restaurant.

 

What you "call" something is the name that you have for it.  Notice the following:

 

His name is Thomas, but we call him Tubby.

We started calling this park "Paradise⁶" after our first visit.

 

1 stuff   

n.原料，材料，东西；vt.填满；吃饱

参考例句：

• We could supply you with the stuff in the raw tomorrow.明天我们可以供应你原材料。
• He is not the stuff.他不是这个材料。

2 tray   

n.盘，托盘，碟

参考例句：

• There were two glasses of champagne on the tray.托盘里有两杯香槟酒。
• A waitress came in,carrying tea on a tray.一名女侍者走进来，手端放着茶的托盘。

3 yen   

n. 日元；热望

参考例句：

• He wanted to convert his dollars into Japanese yen.他想将美元换成日币。
• He has a yen to be alone in a boat.他渴望独自呆在一条船上。

4 means   

n.方法，手段，折中点，物质财富

参考例句：

• That man used artful means to find out secrets.那人使用狡猾的手段获取机密。
• We must get it done by some means or other.我们总得想办法把它干完。

5 adjective   

n.形容词；adj.形容词的，用作形容词的

参考例句：

• Don't apply that adjective to me.不要用那个字眼来形容我。
• The adjective loose has several senses. 形容词loose有几个义项。

6 paradise   

n.伊甸乐园，天堂

参考例句：

• My house had a small backyard,the paradise of children.我那幢房子有一个小后院，那是孩子们玩耍的乐园。
• On a hot day a dip in the sea is sheer paradise.热天洗个海水澡是十分令人惬意的事。