综英第三版第四册unit6chinesefood课文翻译.docx

Chinese Food Few things in life are as positive as food, or are taken as intimately and completely by the individual. One can listen to music, but the sound may enter in one ear and go out through the other; one may listen to a lecture or. conversation, and day-dream about many other things; one may attend to matters of business, and ones heart or interest may be altogether elsewhere... In the matter of food and eating however one can hardly remain completely indifferent to what one is doing for long. How can one remain entirely indifferent to something which is going to enter ones body and become part of oneself How can one remain indifferent to something which will determine ones physical strength and ultimately ones spiritual and moral fibre and well-being Kenneth Lo “生活中很少有什么 西像食物 真切 在，或者 那么 底的 个人接 吸收。一个人可能在听音 ，但是音 可以从一只耳 从另一只耳 出；一个人可以在听 座 胡 思乱想；一个人可以在料理生意上的事 而他的心思和 趣另有所属?? . 。而在吃 就餐 ，一个人几乎不可能 的 自己正在做的事完全无 于衷。一个人怎么能 即将 入身体并成 身体一部分的 西保持 的无 于衷呢一个人怎么能 即将决定自己体力以及最 决定自己的精神和道德品 以及幸福安康的 西无 于衷呢——肯尼斯·洛 This is an easy question for a Chinese to ask, but a Westerner might find it difficult to answer. Many people in the West are gourmets and others are gluttons, but scattered among them also is a large number of people who are apparently pretty indifferent to what goes into their stomachs, and do not regard food as having any ultimate moral effect on them. How, they might ask, could eating a hamburger or drinking Coca Cola contribute anything to making you a saint or a sinner For them, food is quite simply a fuel. 是一个中国人常 的 ，而西方人却很 作答。在西方，很多人都是美食家， 有其他一些是暴 暴食者，而混 于 两者中 的 有一种 吃 肚子的食物漠不关心的。 些人也 会 ，吃一个 堡，喝点可口可 就会 成圣人或罪人 于他 来 ，食物就是一种能量。 Kenneth Lo, however, expresses a point of view that is profoundly different and typically Chinese, deriving from thousands of years of tradition. The London restaurateur Fu Tong, for example, quotes no less an authority than Confucius (the ancient Sage known in Chinese as Kung-Fu-Tzu) with regard to the primal importance of f