实战口语情景对话：Sushi Lesson 寿司课

Adrienne: So, Hiroshi, I need to take some friends out for sushi and I think they're hoping I can tell them what to order, and I have no idea about sushi. Can you help me?

埃德里安娜：浩，我要带几个朋友去寿司店吃饭，我想他们会让我推荐菜单，可是我也不了解寿司。你能帮帮我吗?

Hiroshi: OK. Sushi.. well, if you go to sushi restaurant, you notice there is two kind of big categories, that there are the two different kinds of sushi. One is nigiri, the fish cut of sashimi on top of vinegared rice and also the seaweed wrap type, that's also tekamaki, or maki. That's the two big categories I guess as for sushi goes. And also, not that many people know that but this if you go to sushi restaurant, many real sushi restaurants serve you miso soup. They get soup, have a soup stock that is coming from the fish they use, so sometimes you get to have great miso soup at the sushi restaurant and also some little appetizer type. They might have something that you probably usually don't see in isakaya or any Japanese restaurant, so it's always good to ask the sushi chef what's on the side menu.

浩：好，寿司……你去寿司店的话，会注意到基本上寿司分为两大类，有两种不同的寿司。一种是手握寿司，就是在寿司饭上面放上生鱼片，另一种是海苔卷寿司。我认为寿司主要可以分为这两大类。如果你去寿司店的话会发现，有很多真正的寿司店会提供味噌汤，我想知道这点的人并不多。寿司店会供应用鱼类熬制的高汤，所以在寿司店可以享用到非常美味的味噌汤和一些开胃菜。寿司店可能会有一些你在isakaya餐厅和其他日本餐厅不常见到的食物，所以你可以询问寿司师傅副菜单上的美食。

Adrienne: OK, so I should ask the sushi chef. And the two types are nigiri, which is the kind you usually think of sushi when you see it, right? It's the rice with the fish on topand then the other kind, you said tekamaki? What does that mean?

埃德里安娜：好，我要询问一下寿司师傅。另外你刚说的手握寿司是最常见的寿司，对吧?手握寿司是在寿司饭上放生鱼片的那种寿司，另一种是卷寿司吗?那种寿司是什么样的?

Hiroshi: Tekamaki or maki, it's basically the seaweed, the black seawead, it's wrapped around the rice. It's one that you may have seen on TV that they like create the bed, the rice bed, and put cucumbers or tuna and also put the seaweed and you roll it up and you have this long stick of sushi and the sushi chef cuts in a bite for edible piece, so yeah, it's different, but yeah, you also dip that into soy sauce, so.

浩：卷寿司，基本上来说是用黑色海苔把寿司饭卷起来。你可能在电视上看到过，就是把寿司饭铺在黑色海苔上，然后在上面放上黄瓜或金枪鱼，然后把它卷起来，卷成一个长长的寿司卷，寿司师傅会把它切成块，方便一口食用，与另一种寿司不同，你还可以蘸酱油吃。

Adrienne: OK, I think I got it. So, you're talking the tekamaki are more like the rolls that you see.

埃德里安娜：好，我想我明白了。你刚说卷寿司看上去是卷状的。

Hiroshi: Or, one that has a cone shape, that they use the entire seaweed. It's like an ice-cream cone, that it goes upward.

浩：或者说是圆椎状，因为是用整张海苔做的。看上去像蛋卷冰激凌。

Adrienne: You eat the whole thing?

埃德里安娜：是一口吃掉吗?

Hiroshi: You actually do eat the whole thing. Yeah.

浩：一般是一口吃下去。对。

Adrienne: OK. I think I got it.

埃德里安娜：好，我想我明白了。