6、 Cooking Dinner 做飯
A: What are you doing in the kitchen?
你在廚房里做什么?
B:I was thinking of cooking dinner tonight. Any ideas or suggestions about what I should make?
我在想該做什么晚飯。有什么想法和建議嗎?
A:What about roast chicken? Or Chinese food?
做烤雞怎么樣,或者做中國菜?
B:I could go for Chinese food.
我想吃中餐。
A:All right. Do we need to get anything?
好吧。我們還需要買些什么?
B:I’m making a shopping list right now. What kind of vegetables would you like?
我在列購物單。你喜歡吃什么蔬菜?
A:How about cabbage and potatoes?
洋白菜和土豆怎么樣?
B:Sounds good. In that case, let’s get some pork, some cabbage, and a bag of potatoes.
可以。這樣的話,我們要買一些豬肉,洋白菜和一袋土豆。
A:And what about dessert?
要買什么甜品嗎?
B:Why don’t we have ice cream?
干嗎不買點冰淇淋?
A:Mmmm—sounds delicious. What kind of ice cream?
噢,真讓人流口水。什么樣的冰淇淋?
B: How about chocolate?
巧克力的怎么樣?
A:Great!
太好了!
B: I don’t have much cash left. I’ll have to stop by the bank before I go to the supermarket. It might take me a while.
我身上的錢不多了。去超市前我得去趟銀行。那得花點時間了。
A:Take your time. We can eat later tonight.
不用著急。我們可以晚點吃。
額外成就感
廚房用語
* Don’t forget to put juice on your shopping list.
別忘了在你的購物單里加上果汁這一項。
* I’m thirsty; can you get me a bottle of Coke?
我渴了,你能給我一瓶可樂嗎?
* I don’t know what to make for dinner tonight.
我不知道今天的晚餐該做點什么。
* Where should we eat tonight?
我們今晚在哪兒吃?