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VOA文化艺术2023 日本人迷上昆虫料理?

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More restaurants in Japan are offering bugs2 in their dishes.

日本越来越多的餐馆开始在菜肴中加入昆虫。

On a recent vacation in Tokyo, Takumi Yamamoto ate a special lunch of cricket curry3 and silkworm sashimi, which is usually made with raw fish.

最近在东京度假时,山本濯水吃了一顿特别的午餐,咖喱蟋蟀和蚕刺身,刺身通常是用生鱼做的。

He drank a water bug1 cider.

他喝了一杯水生蝽苹果酒。

The 26-year-old office worker is one of many people around the world with a growing interest in entomophagy, or the practice of eating insects.

这位26岁的上班族是世界上许多对食虫越来越感兴趣的人之一。

Bugs are slowly becoming more usable as a food source.

昆虫正慢慢成为一种更有用的食物来源。

Yamamoto said he sometimes ate grasshoppers4 dipped in soy sauce as a child.

山本说,他小时候有时会吃蘸酱油的蚱蜢。

In Tokyo, he ate insect foods at Take-Noko cafe, which serves many bug dishes.

在东京,他在供应许多昆虫菜肴的Take-Noko咖啡馆吃昆虫食品。

"It's fun to select from a wider variety of dishes," Yamamoto said.

山本说:“从更丰富的菜肴中进行选择是很有趣的”。

"Everything was tasty. In particular, the water bug cider was quite refreshing5 … like a green apple."

“一切都很美味。尤其是水生蝽苹果酒,让人感觉非常清爽,就像青苹果一样。”

Entomophagy started to be taken seriously after the United Nations declared bugs a good source of protein to feed a growing world population.

在联合国宣布昆虫是养活日益增长的世界人口的良好蛋白质来源后,食虫开始受到重视。

With livestock6 farming's effects on climate change and world hunger issues from weather and war, there has been more interest in the nutrition bugs can provide.

由于畜牧业对气候变化的影响以及天气和战争带来的世界饥饿问题,人们对昆虫可以提供的营养越来越感兴趣。

Some people think eating insects is just gross.

有些人认为吃昆虫太恶心了。

But Japan has a rich history of using insects as food.

但日本以昆虫为食的历史悠久。

Grasshoppers, silkworms and wasps7 were traditionally eaten in areas of the country with little meat and fish.

在该国肉和鱼很少的地区,传统上人们食用蚱蜢、蚕和黄蜂。

It was a practice that grew in popularity because of food shortages during and after World War II, said Take-Noko manager Michiko Miura.

Take-Noko经理三浦美智子说,由于二战期间和战后的食品短缺,这一做法越来越受欢迎。

"Recently, there have been advances in rearing things like crickets and mealworms for food, so the possibility of using insects as ingredients is really growing," she added.

她补充说:“最近,在饲养蟋蟀和粉虱等可食用昆虫方面取得了进展,因此使用昆虫作为原料的可能性确实在增加。”

Several companies in Japan sell cakes and snacks made from cricket flour.

日本有几家公司出售用蟋蟀粉制成的蛋糕和零食。

Interest has also grown at Take-Noko, which is often fully8 reserved on weekends.

人们对Take-Noko的兴趣也在增加,这家店在周末往往会被订满。

The restaurant's curry contains crickets in meatball form.

这家餐馆的咖喱里有肉丸形状的蟋蟀。

The "sashimi" is the left-over shell of silkworms, and the cider contains water bug extract and is topped with a whole insect.

“生鱼片”是蚕剩下的壳,苹果酒含有水生蝽提取物,上面覆盖着一整只昆虫。

Takeo Saito started the restaurant.

斋藤武夫创办了这家餐厅。

He also has a packaged food company that offers more than 60 kinds of bug foods, from scorpions9 to tarantulas.

他还有一家包装食品公司,提供60多种昆虫食品,比如蝎子和狼蛛等。

"Our aim is not for insects to be something separate, but to be enjoyed at the same table as vegetables, fish, and meat," Saito said.

斋藤说:“我们的目标不是让昆虫成为独立的东西,而是让它们与蔬菜、鱼和肉一起供人们享用。

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1 bug 5skzf     
n.虫子;故障;窃听器;vt.纠缠;装窃听器
参考例句:
  • There is a bug in the system.系统出了故障。
  • The bird caught a bug on the fly.那鸟在飞行中捉住了一只昆虫。
2 bugs e3255bae220613022d67e26d2e4fa689     
adj.疯狂的,发疯的n.窃听器( bug的名词复数 );病菌;虫子;[计算机](制作软件程序所产生的意料不到的)错误
参考例句:
  • All programs have bugs and need endless refinement. 所有的程序都有漏洞,都需要不断改进。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The sacks of rice were swarming with bugs. 一袋袋的米里长满了虫子。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 curry xnozh     
n.咖哩粉,咖哩饭菜;v.用咖哩粉调味,用马栉梳,制革
参考例句:
  • Rice makes an excellent complement to a curry dish.有咖喱的菜配米饭最棒。
  • Add a teaspoonful of curry powder.加一茶匙咖喱粉。
4 grasshoppers 36b89ec2ea2ca37e7a20710c9662926c     
n.蚱蜢( grasshopper的名词复数 );蝗虫;蚂蚱;(孩子)矮小的
参考例句:
  • Grasshoppers die in fall. 蚱蜢在秋天死去。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • There are usually a lot of grasshoppers in the rice fields. 稻田里通常有许多蚱蜢。 来自辞典例句
5 refreshing HkozPQ     
adj.使精神振作的,使人清爽的,使人喜欢的
参考例句:
  • I find it'so refreshing to work with young people in this department.我发现和这一部门的青年一起工作令人精神振奋。
  • The water was cold and wonderfully refreshing.水很涼,特别解乏提神。
6 livestock c0Wx1     
n.家畜,牲畜
参考例句:
  • Both men and livestock are flourishing.人畜两旺。
  • The heavy rains and flooding killed scores of livestock.暴雨和大水淹死了许多牲口。
7 wasps fb5b4ba79c574cee74f48a72a48c03ef     
黄蜂( wasp的名词复数 ); 胡蜂; 易动怒的人; 刻毒的人
参考例句:
  • There's a wasps' nest in that old tree. 那棵老树上有一个黄蜂巢。
  • We live in dread not only of unpleasant insects like spiders or wasps, but of quite harmless ones like moths. 我们不仅生活在对象蜘蛛或黄蜂这样的小虫的惧怕中,而且生活在对诸如飞蛾这样无害昆虫的惧怕中
8 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
9 scorpions 0f63b2c0873e8cba29ba4550835d32a9     
n.蝎子( scorpion的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • You promise me that Black Scorpions will never come back to Lanzhou. 你保证黑蝎子永远不再踏上兰州的土地。 来自电影对白
  • You Scorpions are rather secretive about your likes and dislikes. 天蝎:蝎子是如此的神秘,你的喜好很难被别人洞悉。 来自互联网

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