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Waitress: Are you ready to order, sir?
Benjamin: Yeah. I have a fancy for some wine tonight. Can you recommend something for me?
Waitress: Our red wine is very famous. I’d suggest you try that.
Benjamin: All right. What kind of red wine do you serve?
Waitress: Here are a variety of red wines for you to choose. You can have a taste then make your decision then. Here is the wine menu.
Benjamin: The dry red wine looks quite good. I’d like to try this one.
Waitress: Then do you like any cheese to go with it?
Benjamin: Why? Do I have to order that?
Waitress: Oh, no. But cheese is the best thing to go with red wine. And we have really fresh cheese which will be free if you order red wine. Here are the pictures. Pick out something you like.
Benjamin: That’s really nice. I’d like this one. It looks very attractive.
Waitress: What would you like for appetizer and dinner?
Benjamin: Croissant for appetizer and two beef steaks for dinner.
Waitress: How do you want your steaks, rare, medium or well-done?
Benjamin: Medium, please?
Waitress: Anything for dessert?
Benjamin: Sure. We’d like to have Black Forest Cake for dessert.
Waitress: OK. Please wait for s while. We’ll get it done quickly!
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服务员: 先生，准备好点餐了吗?
本杰明: 是的。我今天晚上想喝点酒。你有什么能为我推荐的吗?
服务员: 我们这里的红酒很有名。我建议您尝一下。
本杰明: 好的。你们有什么红酒呢?
服务员: 我们有很多种红酒可以供您选择。您可以先尝一下再做决定。这是酒单。
本杰明: 干红葡萄酒看起来不错。我想试试这个。
服务员: 那您想来点奶酪来配红酒吗?
本杰明: 为什么?我一定要点吗?
服务员: 哦，不是的。不过奶酪是红酒最好的搭配。我们这里有非常新鲜的奶酪，而且如果您已经点了红酒的话，奶酪就是免费的。这里是奶酪的图片。选一些您喜欢的吧。
本杰明: 这可真不错。我就来这种吧。它看上去很美味。
服务员: 请问开胃品和正餐您想要点什么?
本杰明: 开胃品就来点牛角面包吧，正餐要两份牛排。
服务员: 请问要什么样的牛排，比较生的，适中的，还是熟透的?
本杰明: 一般的就可以了。
服务员: 要来点甜点吗?
本杰明: 当然。我们要黑森林蛋糕当甜点。
服务员: 好的。请稍等。马上就为您准备。
经典背诵 Recitation
Waitress: I’m a waitress in a western restaurant. My job is to take the customers’ orders. The key to doing a good job like this is to recommend the right thing to the right people. Today, there was a couple who came for dinner. The husband wanted some wine. So I told him that our red wine was very famous and also cheese was the best thing to go with it. They took my advice and had a fancy dinner.
生词小结
fancy n. 喜好
croissant n. 牛角面包
medium adj. 适中的
well-done adj. 熟透的
Material 语素
Grape Wine
Grape wine is the second beverage in the international market, only next to beer. At the present, the grape wine already becomes the pronoun of wealth, fashion and personal status. Grape wine is well know to be beneficial to people’s health, but how to choose, drink or store grape wine is a knowledge. There is a wonder: how the grape wine gets its color, since almost all grape juice (even from the black grapes) is basically colorless. The secret is letting the skins soak in the juice during fermentation.
葡萄酒
葡萄酒是国际市场上的第二大饮料，仅次于啤酒。如今，葡萄酒已经成为财富、时尚和个人地位的代名词。众所周知，葡萄酒有益于身体健康，不过怎么挑选、饮用和储存葡萄酒却是一门学问。有一个疑问：葡萄酒是怎么形成它独特的色泽的呢?因为几乎所有的葡萄汁(即使来自黑葡萄)基本上都是无色的。诀窍就在于在发酵过程中把葡萄皮浸泡在葡萄汁中。
Cheese
Cheese is one of the world’s oldest food products in human history, although no one knows exactly how long people have been eating cheese. Nutrition basically is all about good eating habits, good foods for you, and that includes cheese of course, for it provides protein, essential daily vitamins, and of course energy. If there is one real cheese country in the world, it’s the Netherlands, which is the world’s largest exporter of cheese.
奶酪
奶酪是人类历史上最古老的食物产品之一，尽管没有人知道人们开始吃奶酪的确切时间。一般来讲，营养总是关于好的饮食习惯和对人有益的食品，这当然也包括奶酪，因为它可以提供蛋白质，每天必须的维生素，当然还提供能量。如果说世界上只有一个真正的奶酪国家的话，那么只能说是荷兰，它是世界上最大的奶酪出口国。
