每天三分钟学英语 第555期:吃大闸蟹拯救你的词汇量(一);带手套的螃蟹

 

介绍： 大家上一篇的对话听得怎么样了，今天就来看看第一段的内容吧。

A: I've never had this kind of crab¹ before. What's it called?

我从来没吃过这种螃蟹。它叫什么？

B: It's a mitten² crab. It's called that because of the fur on its claws.

中华绒螯蟹（大闸蟹）。它叫大闸蟹是因为它钳子上有毛。

A: There doesn't seem to be a lot of meat.

那好像没多少肉。

B: No, we eat it mainly for its roe³.

是没有，我们主要是吃蟹黄。

Mitten crab

大闸蟹

claws

钳子

大闸蟹

Roe

鱼籽，籽

The roll has salmon⁴ roe in it.

这个卷里面有三文鱼籽。

roll

卷

The roe is the best part of the crab.

蟹黄是这个螃蟹的精华。

It's called...

这叫…

What's something called?

…叫什么

A: What's that thing that opens the wine bottle called?

那个把酒瓶打开的东西叫什么？

B: It's called a corkscrew.

那叫开瓶器。

corkscrew

开瓶器

A: How do you have so much free time?

你怎么有那么多空闲时间？

B: It's called being unemployed⁵.

这叫失业。

1 crab   

n.螃蟹，偏航，脾气乖戾的人，酸苹果；vi.捕蟹，偏航，发牢骚；vt.使偏航，发脾气

参考例句：

• I can't remember when I last had crab.我不记得上次吃蟹是什么时候了。
• The skin on my face felt as hard as a crab's back.我脸上的皮仿佛僵硬了，就象螃蟹的壳似的。

2 mitten   

n.连指手套，露指手套

参考例句：

• There is a hole in the thumb of his mitten.他的手套的姆指上有个洞。
• He took her money in one hand and with the other hand he grasped her mitten and said "Take me to where you live.I want to see your brother and meet your parents".他一手接过她的钱，一手抓起她的连指手套，“带我去你住的地方，我想见见你的弟弟和你的父母。

3 roe   

n.鱼卵；獐鹿

参考例句：

• We will serve smoked cod's roe at the dinner.宴会上我们将上一道熏鳕鱼子。
• I'll scramble some eggs with roe?我用鱼籽炒几个鸡蛋好吗？

4 salmon   

n.鲑，大马哈鱼，橙红色的

参考例句：

• We saw a salmon jumping in the waterfall there.我们看见一条大马哈鱼在那边瀑布中跳跃。
• Do you have any fresh salmon in at the moment?现在有新鲜大马哈鱼卖吗？

5 unemployed   

adj.失业的，没有工作的；未动用的，闲置的

参考例句：

• There are now over four million unemployed workers in this country.这个国家现有四百万失业人员。
• The unemployed hunger for jobs.失业者渴望得到工作。