外國人最想和你聊的文化話題：英國人的一日三餐

　Realize British Daily Meals　認識英國人的三餐

     1　認識英國人的三餐
     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達方式
     （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　　　　　黑香腸
     toast and marmalade　　橘子醬面包
     Cereal　　　　　　　　 麥片
     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　　　　　 盒裝午餐
     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/醬汁
     傳統(tǒng)的英式早餐有煎培根、香腸和煎土司，這叫做"煎食"。英國人的午餐很快就能解決，通常午餐只需三到四分鐘。很多英國人吃三明治，或許因為三明治就是英國人發(fā)明的。通常人們早上在家做好三明治，然后午餐時間食用，三明治就相當于英國人的便當。晚餐是一天中的主餐，而且通常有兩道菜--肉或魚加蔬菜，之后有甜點也就是布丁。
Part 2　Key words ＆ Sentences　關鍵詞語全知道
     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.
     英國人傾向于在上班前吃一頓豐盛的早餐，午餐不是和家人一起而是和工作伙伴或者同學一起吃的。
     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國家的正餐還要豐富，俗稱煎食，因為許多食物都是煎炸的：香腸、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.
     雞蛋是英式早餐最重要的部分，雞蛋通常有四種烹調方法：煎、炒、煮和燉。
     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.
     英國人喝早茶的習慣事實上是英國長久以來的傳統(tǒng)。但是"英國早餐茶"這一說法卻不是從英國而來的，而是從殖民地時期的美國而來。
     Lunch is normally eaten between 12.30 pm and 1.30pm.
     午餐通常在下午十二點半至一點半之間。
     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.
     大部分人下午五點半下班。他們從學?；蛘呱习嗟牡胤交丶抑辽傩枰粋€小時，所以人們一般在晚六點半至八點間食用晚餐。
     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頓，最典型的英式餐點往往出現(xiàn)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.
     傳統(tǒng)烤雞是英國人的最愛，經(jīng)常出現(xiàn)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.
     英國食物傳統(tǒng)上以牛肉、羊肉、豬肉、雞肉以及魚肉為基礎，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.
     現(xiàn)在，典型的英式早餐往往是一碗麥片、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.
     吃牛肉的時候，往往加上熱的白辣根沙司，甜蘋果醬豬肉和綠薄荷醬羊肉。
     The most popular type of bread in Britain is sliced white bread.
     在英國最受歡迎的面包是切片白面包。
     When the British eat bread they always cover it with butter or margarine.
     英國人吃面包的時候總喜歡加上黃油或者橘子醬。
     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.
     如果去英國幾乎肯定你會去烤魚片和炸薯條店。這種店出售炸土豆片，也叫做薯片。
     The chips used to be wrapped in newspaper but now white paper is used.
     薯條以前是包裹在報紙里，現(xiàn)在用白紙裝。
     Some of British main dishes have strange names like Bubble ＆ Squeak and Toad-in-the-Hole.
     一些英國的主菜有非常奇怪的名字如：泡沫＆吱吱聲和洞里的蛤?。ú嗣弊g為洞中蟾）。
     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.
     在英國，傳統(tǒng)的做法就是把食品當成敵人打死煮熟了事。午餐通常只要一個小時，而且烈性酒也漸漸不上席了。