杰夫的一天 第33期：吃早餐講解(8)

Other people in a restaurant may call them utensils. 飯店里的人可能會把它們叫做器皿。

Utensils, "utensils." If you go to a restaurant and you sit down and you don't have a spoon or a fork or a knife, 器皿(utensils)。如果你坐在飯店里，你沒有刀叉勺，

you would ask the waiter or waitress for some utensils, or you could just say, "I need some silverware." 你會向服務員要一些器皿，或者你就說，“我需要一些銀器。”

A silverware tray, "tray," is a place where you put the silverware—you put the utensils, the forks, the spoons, the knives—in a drawer. 銀碟(tray)，是你放銀器的地方——你把器皿、刀叉勺放進抽屜里。

And, usually a tray is like a little box that has holes in it for specific things. 而且，碟子一般類似于用來放專門物品的有洞小盒子。

That word, tray, can also be used to describe a small, flat piece of plastic or wood that you use to carry things on, like your dishes. 碟子這個字，也可以用來形容你用來端東西的、小又平的塑料或木質盤子。

Well, I get my spoon, and I go out and I get my newspaper, which, of course, is what has the news, the sports, and the international and national news. 嗯，我拿到了調羹，然后去外面拿報紙，那上面當然會有各種新聞——體育、國內(nèi)外新聞。

Many Americans like to read a newspaper in the morning, just like people all over the world do. 和世界其他國家的人一樣，很多美國人早上喜歡讀報。

I "sit down at the kitchen table" and I read the paper. 我“坐在餐桌旁”讀報。

Sometimes we call a newspaper just the paper. 有時我們把報紙簡稱為報。

Someone says, "I read it in the paper this morning," they mean the newspaper. 要是有人說“我今天早上在‘報’上看到的，”他們實際上是說在“報紙”上。