Jennifer: Hello and welcome to Question and Answer of the week from BBC

Learning English. I‟m Jennifer and with me in the studio today is Helen.

Helen: Hi. 在这个节目中我们将回答大家提出的英语问题。

Jennifer: What question do we have today?

Helen: We‟ve had a question from Andy who says: “I want to know more about

food in the UK. There are lots of words about food and I want to learn

some.” Andy 想学些有关食品的词汇。

Jennifer: Well it just so happens that I love food, it‟s one of my favourite things to

talk about – and to eat. But there are so many things we can say about it,

where should we start?

Helen: How about with breakfast? 那就从早餐说起吧。

Jennifer: Great idea. Breakfast is the meal that you have after you wake up. In

Britain, you might eat cereal for breakfast, or perhaps a slice of toast.

Helen: 多数人早上吃麦片或烤面包，简单又快。But I‟ve heard of a „full English

breakfast.‟ What‟s that?

Jennifer: It‟s a lot of food on one plate! A full English breakfast is usually fried – so

cooked in a shallow frying pan in lots of fat.

Helen: 正宗英式早餐是在一个浅底油锅里做出来的。That‟s not very healthy. What

would I get if I ordered a full English?

Jennifer: You‟d get sausages, bacon, a fried egg, mushrooms, tomatoes, beans and

hash browns – those are pieces of shredded potato which are fried

together.

Helen: That‟s so much food! 香肠，培根，鸡蛋，蘑菇，西红柿，烘豆和土豆饼，这哪是

早餐，这比午餐都多。我一大早可吃不下这么多东西。It‟s more of a lunch time

meal.

Jennifer: Lunch is the meal that we have in the middle of the day. Lots of people

prefer to have something small and light at this time of the day, like a

sandwich or a salad.

Helen: 很多人尤其是上班族中午就吃个三明治或色拉。我个人并不喜欢，一份色拉才吃不饱

呢。I don‟t think a salad would fill me up.

Jennifer: You can always have a snack in the afternoon.

Helen: 一点儿零食或小份食品。

Jennifer: Yeah, you could have a piece of fruit, or some nuts, or perhaps a bar of

chocolate or a biscuit!

Helen: 水果和坚果还是健康的，不过我更想吃块巧克力或饼干。

Jennifer: Don‟t eat too much though, you don‟t want to spoil your dinner!

Helen: Spoil my dinner? 毁了我的晚餐?

Jennifer: If you spoil your dinner, you eat too much before a meal, and are not

hungry anymore, so your dinner is wasted.

Helen: Ah. 如果被零食给塞饱了肚子，正餐可就吃不下去了，那可就太浪费了。我可不会犯

这种错误。今天晚上我还要去晚宴呢。I‟m going out for dinner.

Jennifer: Ooooh you lucky thing! I love going out for dinner – are you going to a

nice restaurant?

Helen: Yes, 我会去一家非常棒的餐厅。It‟s a French restaurant next to the river.

Jennifer: That sounds lovely. I love French food. Are you having a three-course

meal?

Helen: A three-course meal?

Jennifer: That‟s where you get a starter, a main course and a dessert.

Helen: 就是说有 3 道菜，头盘，正餐加甜点。I think I will have three courses.

Jennifer: It‟s making me hungry just thinking about it. Well, I‟m not going

anywhere nice tonight, and I don‟t have time to cook, so I think I‟ll just

have a ready meal.

Helen: What‟s a ready meal?

Jennifer: A ready meal is a meal which has already been prepared, and which you

just heat up in the oven or microwave.

Helen: That‟s a bit lazy! A ready meal, 从超市里买的那种已经做好了的快餐，回家微波

炉转转就能吃了。

Jennifer: It is quite lazy, but I don‟t mind. I might be even lazier and get a

takeaway instead.

Helen: 叫外卖也是偷懒，不过算是奖励自己一下吧。

Jennifer: Of course, we‟ve forgotten to mention one of the most important thing

that accompany all of these meals and that you can have throughout t

day?

Helen: What‟s that then?

Jennifer: A good, old fashioned, cup of tea.

Helen: 是啊，待会儿节目完了，我们去喝杯茶吧。好了希望大家对英国食品和餐饮稍稍有

一些了解。

Jennifer: Don‟t forget you can email us your questions to

questions.bosite@google.co.uk. Bye for now!

Helen: Bye!