外国人最想和你聊的文化话题：英国人的一日三餐

　Realize British Daily Meals　认识英国人的三餐

     1　认识英国人的三餐
     The writer Somerset Maugham1 observed that one could eat very well in England, simply by having breakfast-three times a day. Although the great English home cooked breakfast a feast of bacon, eggs, sausages, grilled tomatoes, mushrooms, kidneys, kippers, and so on-has given way to a belief that instant coffee and cornflakes must be healthier, it is still available all day and night at motorway service stations.
     Roast beef, lamb or pork with vegetables and roast potatoes are still the nation's favorite choice for "a proper meal". Potatoes form an important constituent of the main meal of the day. The average person gets through 100 kilos of them every year. Much of these are in the form of crispy snacks and, of course, chips with fish, burgers, and other fried foods or just on their own with salt and vinegar.
     Most people wouldn't consider a meal finished unless they had a pudding-steamed jam roll, apple pie, treacle pudding, strawberry tart. The unwary should take care with "Yorkshire" and "black" puddings. The first is eaten with roast beef, and the second a blood sausage.
     In spite of their tastes becoming more sophisticated, the English still treasure the sandwich. They were once content with no more than a cheese and chutney filling, but these days the sandwich can contain anything from smoked salmon and cream cheese to chicken.
     As the interest in foreign food has grown, so have the choices. The supremacy of French and Italian fare is now challenged by others-Thai, Chinese, Mexican, Spanish, Russian, and American. There are even restaurants specializing in English food. One highly successful example in London calls itself "School Dinners" .There tired and overwrought businessmen can enjoy such old fashioned fare as bread and butter pudding, all served by well-developed girls wearing school uniforms.
     2　英式早午晚餐食物的表达方式
     （1）Breakfast　早餐
     Generally speaking the British breakfast is much bigger than in most other countries. Many people like to have a fried breakfast which can consist of fried bacon and eggs with fried bread and possibly fried tomatoes or black pudding. Of course not everybody wants to eat a lot early in the morning and many people prefer to just eat toast and marmalade with tea or coffee. Cereals are also very popular. The most common is cornflakes.
     fried bacon　　　　　　油炸熏肉
     fried bread　　　　　　煎面包
     black pudding　　　　　黑香肠
     toast and marmalade　　橘子酱面包
     Cereal　　　　　　　　 麦片
     cornflakes　　　　　　 玉米片
     （2）Lunch　午餐
     If you go to Britain to study English and you stay with a family you will almost certainly be given a "packed lunch" for your midday meal. A packed lunch normally consists of some sandwiches, a packet of crisps, an apple and a can of something to drink, for example, coca-cola. The contents are kept in a plastic container and you take it with you when you go to school or work. The quality of the packed lunch can vary from terrible to very good; it all depends on who makes it.
     packed lunch　　　　　 盒装午餐
     sandwiches　　　　　　 三明治
     crisps　　　　　　　　 薯片或炸土豆片
     （3）Dinner　晚餐
     Things are changing and most British people eat meals from many different countries for example spaghetti or curry. In fact you could even say that the British don't eat much British food. However the most typical thing to eat for dinner is "meat and two veg". This consists of a piece of meat accompanied by two different boiled vegetables. This is covered with "gravy" which is a sauce made with the juice that was obtained when the meat was cooked. One of the vegetables is almost always potatoes. The British eat a lot of potatoes.
     spaghetti　　　　　　　意大利面
     curry　　　　　　　　　咖喱
     "meat and two veg" 　肉和熟蔬菜
     gravy　　　　　　　　　肉汁/酱汁
     传统的英式早餐有煎培根、香肠和煎土司，这叫做"煎食"。英国人的午餐很快就能解决，通常午餐只需三到四分钟。很多英国人吃三明治，或许因为三明治就是英国人发明的。通常人们早上在家做好三明治，然后午餐时间食用，三明治就相当于英国人的便当。晚餐是一天中的主餐，而且通常有两道菜--肉或鱼加蔬菜，之后有甜点也就是布丁。
Part 2　Key words ＆ Sentences　关键词语全知道
     The British people tend to have a big breakfast before they go to work and the meal at midday is not spent with the members of the family but with workmates or schoolmates.
     英国人倾向于在上班前吃一顿丰盛的早餐，午餐不是和家人一起而是和工作伙伴或者同学一起吃的。
     British breakfast is richer than any other country. This breakfast called the fry-up, because many of the food if fried：sausage, bacon, mushroom, tomato.
     英式早餐全餐比其他国家的正餐还要丰富，俗称煎食，因为许多食物都是煎炸的：香肠、腌肉、蘑菇以及番茄。
     Egg is the most important part in British breakfast. Eggs usually have four kinds of cooking methods：fried, scrambled, boiled and poached.
     鸡蛋是英式早餐最重要的部分，鸡蛋通常有四种烹调方法：煎、炒、煮和炖。
     Drinking a blend of black tea for breakfast is indeed a longstanding British custom. The practice of referring to such a blend as "British breakfast tea" appears to have originated not in England but America.
     英国人喝早茶的习惯事实上是英国长久以来的传统。但是"英国早餐茶"这一说法却不是从英国而来的，而是从殖民地时期的美国而来。
     Lunch is normally eaten between 12.30 pm and 1.30pm.
     午餐通常在下午十二点半至一点半之间。
     Most people finish work at five thirty. It often takes at least an hour to get home from the school or workplace so people tend to eat their evening meal or "dinner" between 6.30pm and 8pm.
     大部分人下午五点半下班。他们从学校或者上班的地方回家至少需要一个小时，所以人们一般在晚六点半至八点间食用晚餐。
     Sunday lunch is usually the best meal of the week and many of the meals which are considered typically British are eaten for Sunday lunch.
     周日的午餐往往是一周最好的一顿，最典型的英式餐点往往出现在周日午餐的餐桌上。
     A traditional roast chicken is the favorite of Englishmen-served up frequently in 30 per cent of homes.
     传统烤鸡是英国人的最爱，经常出现在百分之三十的家庭里。
     British food has traditionally been based on beef, lamb, pork, chicken and fish and generally served with potatoes and one other vegetable.
     英国食物传统上以牛肉、羊肉、猪肉、鸡肉以及鱼肉为基础，通常配上土豆和其他蔬菜。
     Nowadays, a typical English breakfast is more likely to be a bowl of cereals, a slice of toast, orange juice and a cup of coffee.
     现在，典型的英式早餐往往是一碗麦片、一片烤面包、橘子汁或者一杯咖啡。
     Beef is eaten with hot white horseradish sauce, pork with sweet apple sauce and lamb with green mint sauce.
     吃牛肉的时候，往往加上热的白辣根沙司，甜苹果酱猪肉和绿薄荷酱羊肉。
     The most popular type of bread in Britain is sliced white bread.
     在英国最受欢迎的面包是切片白面包。
     When the British eat bread they always cover it with butter or margarine.
     英国人吃面包的时候总喜欢加上黄油或者橘子酱。
     You will almost certainly go to a fish and chip shop when you visit Britain. It is a shop which cooks fried potatoes called chips.
     如果去英国几乎肯定你会去烤鱼片和炸薯条店。这种店出售炸土豆片，也叫做薯片。
     The chips used to be wrapped in newspaper but now white paper is used.
     薯条以前是包裹在报纸里，现在用白纸装。
     Some of British main dishes have strange names like Bubble ＆ Squeak and Toad-in-the-Hole.
     一些英国的主菜有非常奇怪的名字如：泡沫＆吱吱声和洞里的蛤蟆（菜名直译为洞中蟾）。
     In the UK, where traditionally food has been the enemy which we cook until it is dead, the lunch hour is just that：one hour and increasingly without alcohol.
     在英国，传统的做法就是把食品当成敌人打死煮熟了事。午餐通常只要一个小时，而且烈性酒也渐渐不上席了。