英语大赢家 上册 087.Topic 3自助餐饮 Buffet

经典背诵 Recitation¹

 

MayI love buffet². Better yet if it's an Italian buffet. There is one such place, downtown. It's interesting that the customers there would be charged by their weight.The only problem about it is overeating. People just don't know when to stop. Anyway you can't have everything.

 刚吃了巧克力火锅，古奇和阿美怎么算都觉得太贵。恰好楼上有意大利自助餐，于是就决定去试试看。还真是别出心裁，收费竟然按体重，究竟怎么回事呢？请往下看。

 

Gucci: It's too expensive. Ten cookies cost a bundle³.

 

May: I noticed that they have Italian buffet upstairs. Maybe we should have chosen that?

 

Gucci: Let's do it, now.

 

May: What is the charge of buffet for each person?

 

Waitress: It depends on your weight. Come on to the scale⁴, please!

 

Gucci: Interesting! Look, I'm 45kg.

 

May: Me, 46kg.

 

Waitress: 50 yuan for each.

 

Gucci: I love it. Look, they've got everything.

 

May: Wow, coffee and cheese puddings. Love it.

 

Gucci: It's the only neat decision we made today!

 

May: It is. And it's not all bad now.

 

Gucci: No more for me. I'll all set.

 

May: Me either. That's the problem about buffet. Always over eating.

 

Gucci: You can't get everything.

 

听看学

 

古奇：这也太贵了。10块小甜饼就 要那么多钱。

 

阿美：我发现楼上有意大利自助餐。 也许我们本该去那里的。

 

古奇：那我们现在去吧。

 

阿美：自助餐每个人的收费是多 少？

 

服务生：收费是按体重来算的。上 这个称看看吧！

 

古奇：真有趣。看，我是45公斤。

 

阿美：我是46公斤。

 

服务生：每人50元。

 

古奇：我很喜欢这个地方，这里什 么都有。

 

阿美：哇噻，咖啡、奶酪布丁，我 最喜欢了。

 

古奇：这是我们今天做的唯一正确 的决定。

 

阿美：是啊，看来今天也不是什么 都差劲。

 

古奇：吃不下了，我搞定了。

 

阿美：我也吃不下了。这就是自助 餐的问题啊，总是吃太多。

 

古奇：总是不能十全十美嘛！

 

 

 

生词小结

 

bundlen. 堆，捆

 

noticevt. 注意

 

buffetn. 自助餐

 

cheesen. 奶酪

 

puddingn. 布丁

 

注释

 

1.Ten cookies cost a bundle.

 

Bundle本意为“一大堆”，这里指的是“一大堆钱”，中文口语中也有相似的表达方法，例：“好贵啊，花了我一大堆钱。”

 

2.You can't get everything.

 

get在这里的意思是“得到”，直译为你不能得到每一件东西。（可见总有遗憾。）所以也较容易想到意译应为：做不到十全十美。

 

Scene practice 情景练习

 

抱怨句型练习

 

仔细阅读下面五个场景，两人一组，使用抱怨句型，用一用，练一练。

 

1.May bought a CD in a shop, but it was not the right CD inside, if you were May, what would you complain to the manager?

 

2.May and Gucci are having lunch in a restaurant, but the soup tastes horrible⁵. If you were Gucci, what would you complain to the waitress?

 

3.Benjamin's neighbor has two young children, they were very noisy. They scream and shout event at midnight. His neighbor doesn't seem to care about their screaming. Benjamin has just had a sleepless⁶ night as a result, if you were Benjamin, what would you complain to the neighbor?

 

4.Shirley bought some shoes to wear in the rain but they leak⁷. She takes them back to change them. If you were Shirley, what would you say to the shop assistant?

 

5.If you were Daniel, your mother complains about your laziness, what would you say to your mother?

1 recitation   

n.背诵；朗读

参考例句：

• His recitation was cadenced and rich in feeling.他的朗诵抑扬顿挫，富有感情。
• The boy made many blunders as he stumbled through his recitation.这个男孩在讷讷的背书中出了很多差错。

2 buffet   

n.自助餐；饮食柜台；餐台

参考例句：

• Are you having a sit-down meal or a buffet at the wedding?你想在婚礼中摆桌宴还是搞自助餐？
• Could you tell me what specialties you have for the buffet?你能告诉我你们的自助餐有什么特色菜吗？

3 bundle   

n.捆，包，束；一堆，一批；v.把…扎成一捆

参考例句：

• My uncle sent me a large bundle on my birthday.我生日时叔父给我寄来一个大包裹。
• Dad found a bundle of spelling mistakes in my composition.爸爸在我作文里找出一大堆拼写错误。

4 scale   

n.比例；程度；范围

参考例句：

• The scale of this map is an inch to a mile.这张地图的比例尺是一英寸代表一英里。
• He's in business on a small scale.他做的是小本生意。

5 horrible   

adj.可怕的，极可憎的，极可厌的

参考例句：

• This is a horrible monster.这是一个可怕的怪物。
• That is a horrible accident.那是一次可怕的事故。

6 sleepless   

adj.不睡眠的，睡不著的，不休息的

参考例句：

• The situation gave her many sleepless nights.这种情况害她一连好多天睡不好觉。
• One evening I heard a tale that rendered me sleepless for nights.一天晚上，我听说了一个传闻，把我搞得一连几夜都不能入睡。

7 leak   

vi.漏，渗；泄漏；vt.使渗漏，使泄漏；n.漏洞，漏隙；泄漏，漏出

参考例句：

• There is a leak in the roof.房顶上有个漏洞。
• There has been a leak of information.走漏了风声。