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Cheese culture

 

無論芝士是不是你那杯茶，今集Crystal和Kevin都想帶你魂遊法國，了解各種「滋味」英語！打開報章旅遊版，原來某種熟悉的味道可以帶人穿梭時空，回到少年時：

I lifted the lid and poked it; it yielded easily to the touch. When we ended a barbecue under the walnut tree in the garden that night, this locally made raw-milk beauty — runny and pleasantly tangy with a suave, complex taste of mossy wells and toasted hazelnuts — shot me back through time to a snowy Saturday in Connecticut when I was 11.

 

poke 篤

(verb 動詞)

= jab, thrust

 

例子：He poked the snake with a stick.

 

► poke fun at somebody 取笑（某人），奚落（某人）

= to ridicule

 

例子： It's not nice to poke fun at physically challenged people.

 

yield

(verb 動詞)

 

1. 收成

例子：The heavy rains affected this season's yield in crops.

 

2. 讓路

例子：At a roundabout, you must yield to cars coming from the right.

 

runny 水分過多的；稀的 / （通常因為生病而）流鼻涕的

= drippy

 

例子： Timmy had a runny nose because of the cold morning.

 

tangy（味道）香濃的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：I like citrus fruits because of the tangy sensation.

 

suave（男子）文質彬彬的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

例子：Frank is such a charmer with his suave and gentlemanly behavior with the ladies.

 

mossy 佈滿青苔的

(adjective 形容詞)

 

shot

1. 槍擊 (verb 動詞) past tense of shoot

 

例子：The police shot the suspect in the leg.

 

2. 小量的 / 一小杯的 (noun 名詞)

 

例子：I need a shot of whiskey to calm my nerves.

 

Isabelle Hédin, whose grandfather founded the fromagerie in 1895, told us that there are six varieties of Brie, and that the final taste of the cheese depends on the size of the mold used to contain the coagulated raw cows’ milk curd and the length of time it ages.

 

found 創辦  

=/= past tense of ‘find’

(verb 動詞)

 

mold 模具

=/= mold on stale bread

(noun 名詞)

 

coagulate（使）凝結，（使）凝固

 (verb 動詞)

 

例子：A favorite Chinese dessert is steamed milk custard which is basically coagulated milk.

 

Crystal’s Slang Time

 

cheesy 俗氣的 / 沒品味的

(adjective 形容詞)

= lacking in taste; "lame"; "corny"

 

例子：His clothes are so cheesy, but hey, I dig clothes from the seventies anyway.

   
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