【英语趣味课堂】柬埔寨公路旅行-Camboida Road Trip Part 4

Todd: So on your bike trip, how did you feed yourself. What did you eat?

Julia: Hydration was a thing that we worried about. We were able to stop every few kilometres and get fresh young coconuts² with the straw in the top. Did you remember doing that?

 

Todd: Yes, that's great.

 

Julia: That's like a natural IV hit straight there. You can get, you can live very well just roadside stalls⁴. Breakfast on the street markets. Most Cambodians eat breakfast on the way to work. Like they gather at the market and there's people there selling noodles and the most incredible⁵ just homemade stuff.

 

Todd: So what was a typical breakfast?

 

Julia: Noodles, usually noodles, some kind of noodles in a soup, like noodle soup I guess probably like in Vietnam, pho, they call it. The Cambodians have a similar thing. A lot of dishes with coconut¹ milk, not as spicy⁶ as Thai food but a lot of coriander we call it in the UK. You call it, what do you call it, cilantro, you call it in America?

 

Todd: It sounds good.

 

Julia: Fabulous⁷, yes, coconut.

 

Todd: I would imagine a lot of fruit?

 

Julia: Let's see. In Cambodia did we get a lot of fruit. Not that much fruit actually in Cambodia. In Vietnam I remember the mangoes. When we crossed the border it was very different even though they're neighboring countries, it was a very different kind of cuisine⁸ when we crossed into Vietnam. Palm sugar, cane⁹ sugar, we drank a lot of cane sugar, cane sugar drink.

 

Todd: So during the day how many times would you usually eat?

 

Julia: We'd eat breakfast, usually within the first hour. Oh, the coffee. I remember the coffee. Coffee is made with condensed milk in Cambodia so that was a staple¹⁰, a big shot of Cambodian coffee with condensed milk in it. We'd have breakfast. We would try and do the bulk of our riding, we'd try and do like sixty K if possible before lunch because it got too hot in the afternoons and we wanted to arrive wherever we were getting before dark because we didn't really, you know the roads weren't safe. And then we'd stop for lunch somewhere but we'd also make it a rest stop and because we didn't all cycle at the same pace, it would probably be about two hours or so by the time we all arrived in the same place. Ate lunch, again rice is a staple and then whatever they had going these lunchtime cafes. And then our evening meal would be probably when we arrived at our guesthouse or the town that we were at in the evening. So we would have three meals a day usually.

 

Todd: And then at night you would just stay in a guesthouse?

 

Julia: At night we'd usually stay, yeah, we stayed in guesthouses, yeah.

 

Todd: So how did you feel when you finally reached the end of your trip?

 

Julia: Both elated and saddened. It was a real sense of achievement that we'd made it but I wanted it to go on forever. I then had to fly back out from Ho Chi Minh. We had a few days in Ho Chi Minh just to kind of celebrate that we got to the end but I had to come back to Japan so I flew back via Bangkok, where my husband was actually waiting. I'd been away two months so it was nice to come home. You know I realized when I got to the end that I really missed my husband but during the trip I was very at peace and enjoyed it and I could have just gone on forever I think.

 

Todd: Cycle around the world?

 

Julia: Cycle around the world, yeah. I realized that yeah that's how you do it. It's so pleasurable to do it to ride.

 

Todd: It sounds like an incredible trip.

 

Julia: It was.

 

Todd: I'm sure you'll never forget it.

 

Julia: No, never, no, no, no.

 

重点词汇：

 

Learn Vocabulary from the lesson

hydration

 

 

Hydration was a thing we were worried about.

 

When your body is 'hydrated,' it has enough water in it to function normally. Notice the following:

 

This is a special sports drink that helps with hydration.

Hydration is the first survival¹¹ problem you must solve if you are stranded¹².

roadside stalls

 

 

You can live very well just roadside stalls.

 

A 'roadside stall³' is an informal food stand that is on the side of the road. Notice the following:

 

We always stop at this roadside stall to buy soup on our ride.

Some of the best places to eat are roadside stalls.

staple

 

 

Coffee is made with condensed milk in Cambodia, so that was a staple.

 

A 'staple' food item is one that is eaten in large quantities by the people from that area. Rice, bread and potatoes are all common staple food item. Notice the following:

 

Rice is a staple in most of Asia.

Bread is my major food staple.

bulk

 

 

We would try to do the bulk of our riding before lunch.

 

Here, 'bulk' can be replaced with 'most.' Notice the following:

 

I am going to send the bulk of the cookies home with you and just keep a couple for my family.

The bulk of my things are in storage, but some stuff is still at my parents' house.

pace

 

 

We didn't all cycle at the same pace.

 

Your 'pace' is the speed you do something. Notice the following:

 

She is the perfect running buddy¹³, because we run the same pace.

His pace is way too fast for me.

elated

 

Both elated and saddened.

 

If you are joyful¹⁴ and proud about something, you can say that you are 'elated.' Notice the following:

 

Graduation is a time to feel elated.

She is absolutely elated that she got a new job.

 

1 coconut   

n.椰子

参考例句：

• The husk of this coconut is particularly strong.椰子的外壳很明显非常坚固。
• The falling coconut gave him a terrific bang on the head.那只掉下的椰子砰地击中他的脑袋。

2 coconuts   

n.椰子( coconut的名词复数 )；椰肉，椰果

参考例句：

• We found a bountiful supply of coconuts on the island. 我们发现岛上有充足的椰子供应。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Coconuts provide "meat", drink, oil, soap and fiber for fishing line. 椰子提供“肉类”，饮料、油脂、肥皂和做钓（鱼）丝的纤维。 来自百科语句

3 stall   

n.摊位，铺子，售货亭

参考例句：

• She sells fruits at a market stall.她在市场的货摊上卖水果。
• He has a stall that sells designer ripoffs.他开了个铺子卖仿冒设计师品牌衣服。

4 stalls   

n.戏院正厅前排座位，前座观众；摊( stall的名词复数 )；熄火；厩；（房间内的）小隔间

参考例句：

• market stalls selling cheap bric-a-brac 集市上出售廉价小摆设的货摊
• the front row of the stalls 正厅第一排

5 incredible   

adj.难以置信的，不可信的，极好的，大量的

参考例句：

• Some planets run at incredible speed.某些星球以难以置信的速度运行着。
• Her answer showed the most incredible stupidity.她的回答显示出不可思议的愚蠢。

6 spicy   

adj.加香料的；辛辣的，有风味的

参考例句：

• The soup tasted mildly spicy.汤尝起来略有点辣。
• Very spicy food doesn't suit her stomach.太辣的东西她吃了胃不舒服。

7 fabulous   

adj.极好的；极为巨大的；寓言中的，传说中的

参考例句：

• We had a fabulous time at the party.我们在晚会上玩得很痛快。
• This is a fabulous sum of money.这是一笔巨款。

8 cuisine   

n.烹调，烹饪法

参考例句：

• This book is the definitive guide to world cuisine.这本书是世界美食的权威指南。
• This restaurant is renowned for its cuisine.这家餐馆以其精美的饭菜而闻名。

9 cane   

n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的

参考例句：

• This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
• English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。

10 staple   

n.主要产物，常用品，主要要素，原料，订书钉，钩环；adj.主要的，重要的；vt.分类

参考例句：

• Tea is the staple crop here.本地产品以茶叶为大宗。
• Potatoes are the staple of their diet.土豆是他们的主要食品。

11 survival   

n.留住生命，生存，残存，幸存者

参考例句：

• The doctor told my wife I had a fifty-fifty chance of survival.医生告诉我的妻子，说我活下去的可能性只有50%。
• The old man was a survival of a past age.这位老人是上一代的遗老。

12 stranded   

a.搁浅的，进退两难的

参考例句：

• He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
• I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。

13 buddy   

n.（美口）密友，伙伴

参考例句：

• Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
• Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！

14 joyful   

adj.欢乐的，令人欢欣的

参考例句：

• She was joyful of her good result of the scientific experiments.她为自己的科学实验取得好成果而高兴。
• They were singing and dancing to celebrate this joyful occasion.他们唱着、跳着庆祝这令人欢乐的时刻。