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day 109good food

unit 17 · cooking & eating

    good food

    Talk about food, diet and eating out, take leftovers away and pay the bill, and say “not at all” with 根本 + 不/沒.

    today’s words

    • 美食 měishí · good food, delicacies
    • 茶葉 cháyè · tea leaves
    • 濃 nóng · strong, thick (drinks, smell)
    • 切 qiē · cut, slice
    • 飲食 yǐnshí · diet, food and drink
    • 過期 guòqí · expire, be out of date
    • 食品 shípǐn · food (products)
    • 乾杯 gānbēi · cheers! drink a toast
    • 熱量 rèliàng · calories, heat (energy)
    • 打包 dǎbāo · pack up (leftovers), take away
    • 糧食 liángshí · grain, food (supplies)
    • 沖 chōng · make (with hot water); rinse
    • 鮮 xiān · fresh, tasty (of seafood)
    • 結帳 jiézhàng · pay the bill, check out
    • 根本 gēnběn · (not) at all; root, basis
    • 大型 dàxíng · large(-scale), big
    • 定期 dìngqí · regular(ly), at fixed times
    • 多半 duōbàn · most, mostly

    sentences

    • 我根本不知道這件事。 · I had no idea about this at all.
    • 冰箱裡的牛奶早就過期了。 · The milk in the fridge went off ages ago.
    • 菜太多了,吃不完,我們打包吧。 · There’s too much food: let’s take the rest home.
    • 茶不要沖得太濃。 · Don’t make the tea too strong.
    • 你們根本不做飯吧? · You don’t cook at all, do you?