实战口语情景对话 第186期:墨西哥卷饼 Tacos

 Todd: OK, now Anna, you were saying that your favorite food is tacos. 

托德：好的，安娜，你说你最喜欢的食物是墨西哥卷饼。

Anna: Yes, it is. 

安娜：对，没错。

Todd: OK, and how do you make tacos? 

托德：好，你怎么做卷饼呢？

Anna: They're pretty easy. All you do is, buy some meat like ground beef, or ground turkey, and you cook it in a skillet until it's finished. You can add some chopped¹ onion, or any spices, like cumin or chili² powder and then you just serve the meat on tortillas or taco shell with cheese, tomato, lettuce³, onion, guacamole, or anything. They're delicious. 

安娜：非常简单。你所需要做的就是买一些肉类，比如碎牛肉或火鸡绞肉，然后在煎锅里烹制完成。你可以加一些洋葱沫，或是其他的调料，比如孜然或辣椒粉，然后把肉和奶酪、番茄、生菜、洋葱、墨西哥鳄梨酱或其他的配菜一起放入墨西哥面饼中。非常好吃。

Todd: Sounds pretty good. So what do you put the meat in? The meat has to go on a tortilla or something? 

托德：听起来非常不错。那你把肉放在哪？肉要放在墨西哥面饼之类的东西上吗？

Anna: Yeah, on the tortilla. 

安娜：对，放在墨西哥面饼上。

Todd: Oh, OK. 

托德：哦，好的。

Anna: And you can add on top. 

安娜：你可以放在上面。

Todd: OK, what kind of tortillas do you use, flour or corn? 

托德：好的，你用哪种墨西哥面饼，白面还是玉米面？

Anna: I like corn but my husband John, he likes flour. We make both. 

安娜：我喜欢玉米面的，可是我丈夫约翰喜欢白面。所以我们两种都用。

重点讲解：

1. It sounds+形容词

听起来…；

eg. It sounds like a wonderful idea to me, does it really work?

听起来这个主意很不错，真的能行吗？

eg. It sounds as if they might have made a dreadful⁴ mistake.

听起来他们似乎犯下了一个可怕的错误。

2. or something/or anything

（表示对说的话不能肯定）或别的什么，或诸如此类，用or something或or something like that表示；

or anything表示“或其他什么的；诸如此类”；

eg. This guy, his name was Briarly or Beardly or something.

这个家伙叫布赖厄利、比尔德利或什么类似的名字。

eg. The air fare was about a hundred and ninety-nine pounds or something like that.

机票 199 英镑左右，大概是这个价钱。

eg. Listen, if you talk to him or anything make sure you let us know, will you.

听着，如果你和他说话或什么的，一定要让我们知道，好吗？

eg. He didn't cry or scream or anything.

他没哭也没喊，什么事也没有。

1 chopped   

[医]剁碎的

参考例句：

• He chopped some wood for the fire. 他劈了些柴烧火。
• Finish by sprinkling some chopped almonds over the cake. 最后在蛋糕上撒些剁碎的杏仁。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 chili   

n.辣椒

参考例句：

• He helped himself to another two small spoonfuls of chili oil.他自己下手又加了两小勺辣椒油。
• It has chocolate,chili,and other spices.有巧克力粉，辣椒，和其他的调味品。

3 lettuce   

n.莴苣；生菜

参考例句：

• Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿，我好做色拉。
• The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。

4 dreadful   

adj.糟透了的，极端的，可怕的，令人畏惧的

参考例句：

• I cannot imagine what to do in this dreadful situation.我不能想像在这么糟的情况下该怎么办。
• I must apologize for the dreadful mistake I made.我为我所犯的严重错误深表歉意。