情景会话口袋书人际篇104:饮食(4)

 　　13. Are you on a diet?

　　你在节食吗？

　　还能这样说：

　　Are you dieting?

　　Are you going on a diet?

　　谚语：

　　Diet cures more than the doctor.

　　药补不如食补。

　　14. Where do you usually have breakfast?

　　您平时在哪儿吃早饭？

　　还能这样说：

　　Where do you often settle your breakfast?

　　Where do you breakfast?

　　谚语：

　　Faults are thick where love is thin.

　　一朝情意淡，样样不顺眼。

　　15. He is a gourmet¹.

　　他是一个美食家。

　　还能这样说：

　　He is a lover of good food.

　　He is a real epicure².

　　16. The old lady knows everything about healthy food.

　　这个老太太深谙健康饮食之道。

　　还能这样说：

　　The old lady knows how to have a healthy diet.

　　The old lady is familiar with healthy eating.

　　应用解析：

　　To your health! (=Your good health!)

　　（敬酒时用语）祝您健康！

　　17. Eating regularly is every bit as important as having a healthy diet.

　　规律饮食和健康饮食同样重要。

　　还能这样说：

　　Regular eating is as important as healthy diet.

　　It's of the same importance to eat regularly as to have healthy food.

　　应用解析：

　　a bit 稍微，有一点儿；

　　bit by bit 一点儿一点儿地，逐渐地；

　　a bit of all right 非常吸引人或讨人喜欢的

1 gourmet   

n.食物品尝家；adj.出于美食家之手的

参考例句：

• What does a gourmet writer do? 美食评论家做什么？
• A gourmet like him always eats in expensive restaurants.像他这样的美食家总是到豪华的餐馆用餐。

2 epicure   

n.行家，美食家

参考例句：

• This cookery book have being wrote by a real epicure.这本食谱是由一位真正的美食家写的。
• He researches diets carefully,and is a true epicure.他对于饮食非常有研究，可以算得上是名副其实的美食家了。