美語情景對話 第1170期:Eating Healthy 健康飲食

Meg: Hey, Todd. Are you heAlthy? Do you eat lots of fruits and vegetables?

梅格：嘿，託德。你健康嗎？你經常吃水果和蔬菜嗎？

Todd: I guess I am healthy. I do eat lots of fruits and vegetables, but I also eat junk food, sadly. But I try to eat lots of fruits especially to stay healthy.

託德：我認爲我很健康。我的確經常吃水果和蔬菜，不過我也吃垃圾食品。但是我儘量吃大量的水果以保持健康。

Meg: What kind of fruits do you like to eat?

梅格：你喜歡哪種水果？

Todd: Well, I like all fruits. I love all fruits except pineapple. I hate pineapple. I don't know why. I just don't like pineapple. I don't like the taste. I don't like to chew it. It just feels funny. But I love apples, I love bananas, I love oranges. I usually have an apple every morning for breakfast. It's very easy to eat. And I just love apples because you can take them to school. You can eat them quickly. They're very easy to eat. I also like oranges, and I love orange juice. So sometimes, I make fresh orange juice in my kitchen. So oranges are great. But my favorite fruits are bananas and strawberries. I love bananas and strawberries. And I love to eat bananas and strawberries together, so my favorite snack is to cut up some banana and then cut up some strawberry and mix them together, and then eat them.

託德：我喜歡所有的水果。除了菠蘿，所有水果我都喜歡。我討厭菠蘿。我也不知道原因。我只是不喜歡菠蘿。我不喜歡菠蘿的味道。我不喜歡咀嚼菠蘿的感覺。那讓我感覺很好笑。不過我喜歡蘋果、香蕉和橙子。通常，我每天早飯會吃一個蘋果。很方便。我喜歡蘋果，是因爲我可以把蘋果帶去學校。蘋果很快就可以吃完。而且很方便。我還喜歡橙子，我也喜歡橙汁。有時我會在廚房裏榨新鮮的橙汁喝。橙子非常不錯。不過我最喜歡的水果是香蕉和草莓。我喜歡香蕉和草莓。我喜歡香蕉和草莓一起吃，我最喜歡的小吃就是把香蕉和草莓切碎，然後混在一起吃。

Meg: Well, it sounds like you really a lot of fruits.

梅格：嗯，聽起來你喜歡的水果很多。

Todd: Oh yeah, I do.

託德：對，沒錯。

Meg: What about vegetables? Do you eat vegetables everyday?

梅格：那蔬菜呢？你每天都吃蔬菜嗎？

Todd: I do. I try to have a salad everyday, and I have a special salad I make and I call it my chunky, crunchy salad. And it's carrots, cucumbers and tomatoes, and I cut the carrots and cucumbers into small little squares. And then I cut up the tomatoes and I mix together. And the carrots, tomatoes and cucumbers mixed together, the colors are really pretty. And when you eat the salad, it's very crunchy and it's very chunky because it's all little squares. So I call it my crunchy, chunky salad.

託德：對。我儘量每天都吃蔬菜，我吃的沙拉很特別，我稱之爲塊狀爽脆沙拉。沙拉里有胡蘿蔔、黃瓜和蕃茄，我把胡蘿蔔和黃瓜切成小塊兒。然後把蕃茄切碎，把它們混合在一起。把胡蘿蔔、蕃茄和黃瓜混合在一起，顏色非常漂亮。這種沙拉吃起來非常爽脆，而且是塊狀的，因爲我把它們都切成了小塊。所以我稱之爲塊狀爽脆沙拉。

Meg: That sounds delicious. Do you ever share it with someone else?

梅格：聽上去很好吃。你和其他人分享過嗎？

Todd: No, I don't but I want to because I really, I like it so much and I can't cook. So when I go to somebody's house and I need to bring food, I think, "Oh, I should bring chunky, crunchy salad."

託德：沒有，不過我很想和其他人分享，因爲我非常喜歡這個沙拉，而且我不太會做飯。我去別人家要帶食物的時候，我會想“哦，我應該帶我的塊狀爽脆沙拉過來”。

Meg: Hmm, that's a good idea. Another idea is to cook some vegetables. Do you cook vegetables?

梅格：嗯，那是個不錯的主意。還有一個不錯的想法，那就是炒菜。你炒菜嗎？

Todd: Not too much. I do cook asparagus. Asparagus is probably my favorite vegetable, and it's very easy to cook because asparagus, you just have to cut up into small pieces. And then you can put the asparagus in a bowl with some water in the microwave, and you can cook asparagus in about 30 seconds. So I eat asparagus a lot. Also, I eat broccoli. I love broccoli. Sometimes I have broccoli and lettuce together for my salad. And then sometimes, I cook eggplant. I like to cook eggplant because I like the taste and it's easy to cook.

託德：一般不炒。我會烹飪蘆筍。蘆筍可能是我最愛的蔬菜了，而且烹飪起來很方便，把蘆筍切成小塊，然後把它們放在碗裏，加水之後放進微波爐裏，只需要30秒蘆筍就烹飪好了。所以我經常吃蘆筍。我也吃西蘭花。我喜歡西蘭花。有時我也會在沙拉里放西蘭花和萵苣。有時，我會做茄子吃。我喜歡烹飪茄子，因爲我喜歡茄子的味道，而且茄子也很容易烹飪。

Meg: I don't really like eggplant.

梅格：我不太喜歡茄子。

Todd: Really?

託德：真的嗎？

Meg: I don't.

梅格：我不喜歡。

Todd: Oh no. Why not?

託德：不是吧。爲什麼？

Meg: It has a strange flavor to me, so I prefer not to eat eggplant.

梅格：我覺得茄子有股奇怪的味道，我不喜歡吃茄子。

Todd: Well, as long as you eat your veggies.

託德：嗯，你只要吃你的蔬菜就好了。

Meg: Yes.

梅格：對。

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重點講解：
1. cut up 切開；切碎；
例句：If you only have one cutting board cut up the fresh foods first and then your meats.
如果你只有一塊砧板，就先切新鮮的食品再切肉。
2. prefer to do sth. 更喜歡；偏好；
例句：I prefer to go on self-catering holidays.
我喜歡膳食自助的度假。
3. as long as 只要；
例句：I told Norman I would invest in his venture as long as he agreed to one provision.
我告訴諾曼只要他答應一個附帶條件，我就會爲他的項目投資。