美語情景對話 第962期:Ecuadorian Food 厄瓜多爾食物

Katia: Hello Felipe, how are you?

卡蒂亞：你好，菲利佩，你好嗎？

Felipe: Fine thank you and you?

菲利佩：我很好，謝謝，你呢？

Katia: Good, good. Listen, I heard that you know a lot about Ecuadorean food. Can you tell me a little bit about it? What is your favorite or what is it that you don't like? Can you just enlighten me a little bit?

卡蒂亞：我也很好。我聽說你對厄瓜多爾食物非常瞭解。你能跟我說說嗎？你最喜歡的厄瓜多爾食物是什麼？你不喜歡哪些食物？你能稍微給我介紹一下嗎？

Felipe: Well, in Ecuador, well pretty much all the food in Ecuador is delicious. For example, we have frita which is some fried meat, pork meat, and also potatoes and corn because I love corn and there's also some typical dish called ceviche. Ceviche is a coastal Traditional food and it's made out of shrimps and lemon and tomato. I think it's quite unique and nowhere else in the world you can find something like that. It's quite delicious. And there's also a really spicy food so maybe that's the kind of food that I don't like too much because it's too spicy and it makes you sweat.

菲利佩：好，厄瓜多爾幾乎所有的食物都非常好吃。比如佛瑞塔，這是用炒肉、豬肉、土豆和玉米做的美食，我喜歡玉米，我們還有很多不同種類的水果，所以我們會用這些水果來做果汁和各種甜點。厄瓜多爾還有一種傳統美食——酸橘汁醃魚。這是一種沿海地區的傳統美食，是用蝦、檸檬和番茄做的。我認爲這是厄瓜多爾特有的美食，世界其他地方沒有這種食物。這道菜非常美味。厄瓜多爾也有非常辣的食物，可是我不太喜歡那種食物，因爲太辣了，辣到會讓人冒汗。

Katia: It sounds actually very exotic. What about staple food in Ecuador? What is it, the staple food? For example in Mexico we have tortilla. What about Ecuador, what is the most common food?

卡蒂亞：聽起來很有異國風情。厄瓜多爾有什麼主食？厄瓜多爾的主食是什麼？像墨西哥的主食是墨西哥薄餡餅。那厄瓜多爾呢，厄瓜多爾最常見的食物是什麼？

Felipe: Well, yeah, in Ecuador we also have tortillas but they have different names. For example we have arepas which are made of corn also so the staple food in Ecuador is similar to Mexico and Colombia also because it's made, it's composed of corn and potatoes and mainly people in Ecuador they love potatoes and corn and especially corn because there are many different kinds of corn so they can make many different kinds of soups and also a kind of a bread made of corn and cookies and so on.

菲利佩：厄瓜多爾也有薄餡餅，不過名字不一樣。我們厄瓜多爾有用玉米做的玉米餅，可以說厄瓜多爾的主食同墨西哥和哥倫比亞的類似，因爲也是用玉米和土豆做成的，厄瓜多爾有很多人喜歡土豆和玉米，人們尤其喜歡玉米，因爲厄瓜多爾有很多種玉米，他們可以用玉米做不同的湯、麪包和小餅乾。

Katia: Hmm, it really sounds delicious. Now I'm very curious to try it but thank you for enlightening me about Ecuadorean food.

卡蒂亞：嗯，聽起來很美味。我現在非常想品嚐一下，謝謝你給我介紹厄瓜多爾的美食。

Felipe: Oh, you're welcome. Have a nice trip.

菲利佩：哦，不客氣。祝你旅途愉快。

Katia: Thank you.

卡蒂亞：謝謝。

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重點講解：
1. be made of/be made out of （由…）構成的；（由…）製成的；
例句：The hut was made of poles covered with grass mats.
茅屋用木杆搭成，上面以草蓆覆蓋。
例句：Traditionally gates were made out of wood, normally oak for its durability.
按照傳統，門往往由木頭製成，爲了耐用，往往選用橡木。
2. be similar to 相像的；相仿的；類似的；
例句：The hardness of ice is similar to that of concrete.
冰的硬度和混凝土相仿。
3. be composed of 組成；構成；
例句：This university is composed of five colleges and one graduate school.
這所大學由五個學院和一個研究生院組成。
4. and so on 及諸如此類；等等；
例句：These cars vary in size, price, colour and so on.
這些汽車在大小、價格、顏色等方面各不相同。