【英语时差8,16】面包红酒相似性（上）

Bread and wine make fine companions in a picnic basket, but the two have more than that in common. To make either one, the baker¹ or the vintner has to enlist² the help of yeast³. Yeast isn’t an important ingredient in the final product, but it’s the biological processes of the microscopic⁴ yeast organisms that produce the alcohol and make the bread rise. And in both cases, the yeast works by digesting the sugars in the recipe. Even though the final products are very different, the yeast acts in the same way whether in bread or in wine. When a vintner adds yeast to fresh grape juice, the yeast digests the natural sugars in the juice, breaking the sugar into two simpler chemicals: alcohol and carbon dioxide gas. When the carbon dioxide bubbles to the surface, what’s left is wine.

 

1 baker   

n.面包师

参考例句：

• The baker bakes his bread in the bakery.面包师在面包房内烤面包。
• The baker frosted the cake with a mixture of sugar and whites of eggs.面包师在蛋糕上撒了一层白糖和蛋清的混合料。

2 enlist   

vt.谋取(支持等)，赢得；征募；vi.入伍

参考例句：

• They come here to enlist men for the army.他们来这儿是为了召兵。
• The conference will make further efforts to enlist the support of the international community for their just struggle. 会议必将进一步动员国际社会，支持他们的正义斗争。

3 yeast   

n.酵母；酵母片；泡沫；v.发酵；起泡沫

参考例句：

• Yeast can be used in making beer and bread.酵母可用于酿啤酒和发面包。
• The yeast began to work.酵母开始发酵。

4 microscopic   

adj.微小的，细微的，极小的，显微的

参考例句：

• It's impossible to read his microscopic handwriting.不可能看清他那极小的书写字迹。
• A plant's lungs are the microscopic pores in its leaves.植物的肺就是其叶片上微细的气孔。