Unit_9_Chinese_Food Text.ppt

Attend to your teacher. 注意听你老师所说的话 I have my business to attend to. 我有事要料理。 Could you attend to (ie deal with) this matter immediately? 你能不能立刻处理这件事? Attend to your work and stop talking 专心工作, 不要说话.

in matter of 与...有关 in the matter of 至于; 关于, 在...方面 it is no matter that ...是无关紧要的 let the matter drop [go, rest]听任事情自然发展

make a matter 大惊小怪, 引起一场风波 make matters [it] worse更坏的是, 更糟的是 make sth. a matter of conscience凭良心做某事

matter at issue争论点; 正在讨论的问题 no laughing matter不是闹着玩的事 no matter how [what, when, where, who]不管怎样[什么, 何时, 哪里, 谁]...

language points / difficult phrases or sentences ( Paras.1-4) Para 1: (3)….and ultimately one's spiritual and moralfibre and well-being: Food can determine whether a person is spiritually and morally strong and sound.

gourmet A gourmet is someone who enjoys good food, and who knows a lot about food and wine A gourmet like him always eats in expensive restaurants. 像他这样的美食家总是到豪华的餐馆用餐.

glutton If you think that someone eats too much and is greedy, you can say they are a glutton . I can't control my eating. It's hard when people don't understand and call you a glutton. 我无法克制自己的食欲，当人们不理解而叫我

贪吃鬼的时候心里别提有多难受了。

derive from: to come from a source or origin

eg: The word “deduct ” ~s from Latin. He derived his enthusiasm for literature from his father. 他对文学的爱好是受他父亲的影响。

restaurateur A restaurateur is a person who owns and manages a restaurant. The restaurateur keeps a journal every night. 餐馆老板每天晚上都要认真地做日记帐.

language points / difficult phrases or sentences ( Paras.1-4) Para3: quotes no less an authority than Confucius ... : cites as important an authority as Confucius. no less than: as much as, eg., I paid no less than $ 25 for the book.

He won no less than ￡5000 in the lottery. 他居然中了5000英镑的奖券。 There were no less than fifty wounded. 受伤者多达50人。

with regard to the primal importance of food: in relation to the supreme importance of food. primal:第一的，最初的； 原始的； 首位的，主要的； 根本的

Money was a primal necessity to them. 对于他们,钱是主要的需要. Jealousy is a primal emotion. 嫉妒是最原始的情感。

ecstasy Ecstasy is a feeling of very great happiness. Speechless with ecstasy, the little boys gazed at the toys. 小孩注视着那些玩具, 高兴得说不出话来。 My father was in ecstasy when I won my scholarship...

我获得奖学金时父亲欣喜若狂。

Para3: to be smothered ... through its preparation: Great love and care are to be given to the preparation of food.

to smother ... with ...: to give an excessive amount of something (such as love / attention / care, etc) to ... a child smothered with too much love 因太多的爱而被宠坏的小孩

language points / difficult phrases or sentences ( Paras.1-4) Para3: smother v.将(火)闷熄，使...窒息 Smother the flames from the burning pan with a wet towel. 用湿毛巾把锅里的火扑灭. He smothered the baby with a pillow. 他用枕头把婴儿闷死了.

language points / difficult phrases or sentences ( Paras.1-4) Para3:

to spend plenty of time enjoying the food. lavish: To give or bestow in abundance; shower 滥花；浪费；非常(或过分)慷慨地给 予 If you lavish money, affection, or praise on someone or something, you spend a lot of money on them or give them a lot of affection or praise.

She lavished kindness on them 她对他们过份和气。 lavish care and affection on one's children 溺爱子女

observe make a remark or comment about something, especially when it is something you have noticed and thought about a lot. We observe that the first calls for radical transformation did not begin until the period of the industrial revolution 我们认为直到工业革命时期才出现了要求彻底变 革的第一波呐喊。 'He is a fine young man,' observed Stephen. “他是个很不错的小伙子，”斯蒂芬评论道。

a. Matha observed philosophically, “ Life is full of problems.” b. In his speech, the President observed that the company would improve in the following year. c. The manager observed that the company would need restructuring to enhance its market performance.