Dialogue 1
- A: This is your seat, Mr.Blair. Sit down, please.
- B: Thank you, Mr.Li. I'm really somewhat nervous now. I know nothing of your table manners, it would be in bad taste for a guest to make a blunder.
- A: Don't worry. As for table manners, there is only one rule you must observe. That is to make yourself at home.
- B: No wonder people say Chinese are hospitable. Now, I have seen it with my own eyes.
Dialogue 2
- A: What's kind of food do you like concretely?
- B: I'm not familiar to the name of the food. I'm at your disposal.
- A: Ok. Let me order dishes. Are there any types of food you really don't like.
- B: Well. I'm allergic to silkworm, so that's definitely out. And I'm not too keen on hot peppers or garlic.
- A: Ok. Let's try a Chinese cold salad, which is a cold dish with lots of thin strips of dried tofu. Chinese vermicelli, bean sprouts and pork with vinegar dressing.
- B: It sounds interesting. Let's have some.
Dialogue 3
- A: Would you like to use chopsticks or knife and fork.
- B: I think I'll try chopsticks and see if I could manage.
- A: Let me show you. Look, at first place both sticks between the thumb and the fore finger, then keep one still and move the other, so as to make them work like pincers.
- B: Let me try... Well, how is that?
- A: Fine, you are learning fast. Well, to your health and success in business, cheers!
- B: And to yours, cheers!
new words
- blunder /'blʌndɚ/ n. (因无知、粗心等造成)的错误 vi. 犯错误 踉踉跄跄地走
- hospitable /hɑ'spɪtəbl/ adj. (人、其行为)好客的, 殷勤的, 热情友好的
- concretely /'kɔnkri:tli/ adv. 具体地
- disposal /dɪ'spozl/ n. 清除, 处理, 处置; 排列, 布置
- allergic /ə'lɝdʒɪk/ adj. 过敏的
- keen /kin/ adj. 锋利的 热衷的, 热心的, 渴望(做某事) 激烈的, 紧张的 良好的; 敏锐的, 敏捷的
- strips /strɪp/ n. 分割公债，本息拆离；简易机场；条（strip的复数） v. 剥光…的外皮；把…切成细条；剥去；拿走；剥夺（stirp的三单形式）
- dried /draɪd/ adj. 弄干了的；干燥的 v. 使干（原形是dry）
- vermicelli /ˌvɝmɪ'tʃɛli/ n. 细面条,粉条
- sprouts /spraʊt/ n. 芽菜；豆芽菜；球芽甘蓝（sprout的复数形式）
- pork /pɔrk/ n. 猪肉 vt. 与(女子)性交
- vinegar /'vɪnɪɡɚ/ n. 醋
- chopsticks /'tʃɑp,stɪks/ n. 筷子
- sticks /stiks/ n. 树枝；棍；麻骨（stick复数形式） v. 用杆支撑；刺死；插入（stick的第三人称单数）
- thumb /θʌm/ vt. 以拇指拨弄；作搭车手势；笨拙地摆弄；翻阅 vi. 用拇指翻书页；竖起拇指要求搭车 n. 拇指
- fore /fɔː/ adj. 在前部的 adv. 在前头, 朝前头
- pincers /ˈpɪnsəz/ n. 钳子 (虾、蟹等的)螯
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