day 39flavours and appetite
unit 6 · food, shopping & moneyflavours and appetite
Talk about taste, appetite and how food is cooked and kept, and make a fallback argument with 退一步說.
today’s words
- 調 diào · transfer, move (to another post)
- 潑 pō · splash, throw (a liquid)
- 胃口 wèikǒu · appetite
- 有機 yǒujī · organic
- 冷凍 lěngdòng · freeze; frozen
- 蒸 zhēng · steam (food)
- 滋味 zīwèi · taste, flavour; how something feels
- 解渴 jiěkě · thirst-quenching
- 盛 shèng · flourishing, in full bloom; grand
- 脂肪 zhīfáng · fat
- 剝 bō · peel
- 腐爛 fǔlàn · rot, decay
- 豐盛 fēngshèng · lavish, sumptuous (a meal)
- 油條 yóutiáo · youtiao (fried dough stick)
- 饞 chán · greedy (for food), craving
- 分量 fènliàng · portion, amount; weight
- 慘重 cǎnzhòng · heavy, disastrous (losses)
- 點子 diǎnzi · idea
- 負 fù · bear, take on; owe; minus
- 計 jì · count, calculate
- 寬廣 kuānguǎng · broad, wide, vast
- 趴 pā · lie on your front; lean (on a desk)
- 無形 wúxíng · invisible, intangible
sentences
- 退一步說，就算菜不好吃，分量也很大。 · Even if the food isn’t great, at least the portions are big.
- 退一步說，有機的菜就算貴，也比較安心。 · Even if organic food costs more, at least it gives you peace of mind.
- 吃不完的水餃可以先冷凍起來。 · Dumplings you can’t finish can go in the freezer.
- 冰箱裡的水果都腐爛了。 · The fruit in the fridge has all gone rotten.
- 這次颱風讓很多農民損失慘重。 · This typhoon caused heavy losses for many farmers.