British & American English: Food Vocabulary · English with Ronnie · EnglishLessons4U with engVid
学习英式和美式英语中常见的食品词汇差异，适合练习日常对话和文化理解。
Hi there, my name is Ronnie.
嗨，我叫罗尼。
I'm going to teach you one of my favorite things in the world.
我要教你世界上最让我喜欢的事情之一。
It is food and drink.
这些都是食物和饮料。
Who likes food?
谁会喜欢食物呢？
Who likes drinking?
谁喜欢喝酒呢？
Me?
我？
Water, thank you.
水，谢谢你。
Today I'm going to teach you the differences between British and North American food vocabulary.
今天，我将向你们讲解英式英语与北美英语中关于食物词汇的差异。
What's important to realize is that a lot of different places around in Britain and in North America will have different words for things.
需要明白的是，在英国和北美的许多地方，人们对同一事物的称呼可能会有所不同。
It's interesting for me because if I look at Canadian English, we have a mixture of British and American,
这对我来说很有意思。因为如果我们看看加拿大的英语，会发现它融合了英式英语和美式英语的特点。
and a lot of our words are based on French words.
我们的许多词汇都是源自法语的。
So Canadian English and American English and British English, some of the words we share with British, some of them we share with American.
加拿大英语、美国英语和英国英语之间存在一些词汇上的共性：有些词汇我们与英国英语共享，有些则与美国英语共享。
So this is why I've called this North American, so it might vary.
这就是为什么我将这种现象称为“北美现象”；不过实际情况可能会有所不同。
So just keep that in mind as we go through.
在我们继续讨论的过程中，请记住这一点。
The first one, now just so that
第一个例子，只是为了说明一下……
you understand me and we understand each other, all of the words that are predominantly used in Britain I've put with a red,
你明白我的意思，我们也彼此理解。在英国常用的所有词汇中，我都用红色标出了它们。
beautiful red marker, and all the North American words I've used black.
使用的是漂亮的红色记号笔；而我写的所有北美相关的单词则用黑色记号笔标注的。
So the first one is aubergine.
第一个是茄子。
This is curious for me because this is a French word, but in Canada and in America we say eggplant.
这让我感到很奇怪——因为这个词其实是一个法语词汇，但在加拿大和美国，我们通常用“eggplant”（茄子）来指代这种植物。
I'm surprised that in Canada we do not use the French word of aubergine.
我很惊讶，在加拿大我们并不使用法语中用来表示“茄子”的那个词。
So if you get a menu in the UK and it says aubergine, you might be confused because maybe you learned eggplant.
因此，如果你在英国拿到一份菜单，上面写着“aubergine”，你可能会感到困惑——因为你可能习惯将其称为“eggplant”（茄子）。
Eggplant or aubergine is a purple colored vegetable.
茄子是一种紫色的蔬菜。
I will attempt to draw an aubergine, I'm very good at drawing by the way.
我会尝试画一朵茄子；顺便说一下，我画画画得相当不错。
It's shaped a little bit like this, and it's usually a dark purple color, like this.
它的形状大致是这样的，颜色通常是深紫色。
So it's this color and this shape.
所以，它的颜色就是这个颜色，形状就是这个形状。
It's used a lot in Italian food, it's really tasty and it's a vegetable.
这种食材在意大利菜中非常常用，味道非常美味，而且它属于蔬菜类。
The next one is really, really popular at the pub or at the bar.
接下来的这款饮品在酒吧或酒馆里非常非常受欢迎。
In the UK they're called crisps.
在英国，它们被称为“crisps”（薯片）。
In Canada we call them chips or potato chips.
在加拿大，我们把它们叫做“薯片”（chips）或“土豆片”（potato chips）。
So crisps or potato chips are fried potatoes, very thinly sliced with seasoning.
薯片（Crisps或Potato Chips）其实就是经过油炸处理的土豆片，这些土豆片被切成极薄的片状，然后加入调味料。
And the seasoning varies from country to country, area to area.
调味料因国家和地区的不同而有所差异。
You can get some crazy chip flavors or crisp flavors.
你可以尝到一些非常独特的薯片口味，或者那些口感酥脆的薯片。
The next one is chips.
下一个就是薯片了。
I told you that in Canada we use potato chips as chips.
我早就跟你说过，在加拿大，我们把薯片当作真正的“薯片”来吃（也就是把薯片当作一种常见的零食）。
In the UK it's really, really common to get fish and chips.
在英国，吃炸鱼薯条是非常非常普遍的一件事。
When they use the word chips in Canada and North America, or America, we say French fries.
在加拿大、北美以及整个美洲地区，当人们使用“chips”这个词时，我们通常指的是“French fries”（炸薯条）。
They're not French, I don't know why we call them French fries.
它们其实不是法国的食物；我不知道为什么我们把它们叫做“法式薯条”（French fries）。
We would also shorten it to just say fries.
我们也可以将其简化为“薯条”即可。
So if you went to a fast food restaurant in Canada that had hamburgers, it would say hamburger and fries.
因此，如果你去加拿大的一家提供汉堡的快餐店，店里的菜单上会写着“汉堡和薯条”。
It would not say chips.
它不会提到“薯片”这个词。