公共英语等级考试三级(PETS3)学习笔记(三)分析.doc

公共英语等级考试三级(PETS3)学习笔记（三） Unit 6 Eating and Drinking 　　Dialogues /monologues: 　　1、 I’m in a hurry. 　　我得赶紧。 “in a hurry”指匆忙，有时用作口语也表示轻易地做好某件事情。 　　2、 These days the most sought-after tables are hidden away, several floors above ground, in the city’s high-rise apartments, which are run by chefs out of their own homes or from rented spaces.. 　　这句话的意思我翻译为：目前，很多广受欢迎的餐馆总是藏匿在公寓大厦地面上方的楼层，就在厨 　　师们自家门口或是租的空地外面营业。 　　3、 Merely requesting a reservation can be as difficult as getting one. 　　哪怕是仅仅要求预定(房间)都有可能象真要得到它一样那么难。 　　4、 Exclusively is the main attraction for customers in a city that is still obsessed with status. 　　独有性(专用权)是吸引城市消费者的主要因素，因为人们还是会被身份地位(带来的虚荣感)所迷惑的。 　　5、 I can’t make up my mind about what to have for dessert. 　　make up one’s mind：下决心、作决定。 　　本句的意思是：餐后吃什么甜点，我还没能做出决定。 　　Passage: 　　The ladies were puzzled. Cheryl Spangler, Valeria Borunda Jameson and Susan Puckett, three university-admissions workers on a training visit to Florence, Kentucky, had walked into a local barbecue joint called Chung Kiwha. But instead of sauce-covered mutton served up from the kitchen, they saw a buffet of uncooked meats and vegetables. Instead of knives and forks, they were given large scissors, chopsticks and metal tongs. No candle flickered at their table, but a bucket of fiery wood charcoal hissed in the tabletop grill pit. Chung Kiwha served barbecue, all right—cook-it-your-self Korean barbecue. “I didn’t realize there were restaurants like this,” marveled Spangler to her friends, who hail from Knoxville, Tennessee, and I worked in restaurants for 20 years. 　　The secret is out, thanks to the growing popularity of restaurants where the customer is the chef. Long a staple of immigrant communities in big cities, restaurants where diners chop, grill, boil, or dip their dip their food are hot in the American heartland. St.Paul, Minnesota, has Thai hot-pot cooking. Indianapolis, Indiana, has Japanese shabu-shabu (another type of hot pot). A pizzeria in Las Vegas lets customers roll the dough