思考题
What's the special breakfast in your hometown? Which breakfast do you like best?
你的家乡有什么特色早餐？你最喜欢哪一道早餐呢？
Breakfast pick-ups gaining ground
自提式早餐逐渐普及
pick up my parcel 取我的快递
gain ground 普及开来
It is 8 am. One metro station away from the Shanghai Gopher Center, commuter Chen Jieyun took out her cellphone, opened an app and ordered her breakfast－an omelet with chicken.
现在是早上8点。距离上海歌斐中心还有一站地铁，上班族陈洁云（音译）拿出手机，打开了一个app，订购了她的早餐——一份鸡肉蛋卷。
commuter 通勤者，上班族
commute
v. to travel regularly by bus, train, car, etc. between your place of work and your home （乘公共汽车、火车、汽车等）上下班往返，经常往返（于两地）
n. 通勤的路程
They found that the more distant the commute, the heavier and less fit the commuter.
omelet 煎蛋卷
scrambled egg 炒蛋
boiled egg 煮蛋
When Chen got off the metro and went through the underground passage connecting the station and her office building, she stopped at a wall of small storage boxes.
陈洁云下了地铁，穿过那条连接着地铁站和办公大楼的地下通道，在一排小型储货柜前停了下来。
underground passage 地下通道
a wall of 一墙的
a wall of masterpieces 一墙的名画
Chen flashed her phone at a QR code scanner and one of the boxes opened. Chen reached in and grabbed her omelet in a take-out bag, and off she went. Chen had stopped for less than a minute.
陈洁云拿手机在一个二维码扫描器前扫了一下，其中一个柜子就打开了。她伸手拿出了装在外卖袋中的蛋卷，随即离开，前后停留了不到一分钟。
flash, to show sth to sb quickly （快速地）出示，显示
QR code scanner 二维码扫描器
QR=quick response
scan, 扫描；浏览
grab 抓取
Would you like to grab a cup of coffee?
Let's grab a sandwich before we go. 咱们赶快吃个三明治就走吧
take-out bag 打包带，doggy bag
Off she went. 她离开了, Off you go. 你去吧。
"There aren't breakfast stands around the office building," said Chen, an office worker of a medical company in the Gopher Center. "I found this pick-and-go service very convenient for me."
“办公楼附近没有早餐摊。”陈洁云说道。她在歌斐中心里的一家医药公司上班，“我发现这个即取即走的服务对我来说非常方便。”
stand 摊位；看台；售货处
convenient, adj. 方便的
inconvenient, adj. 不方便的
convenience, n. 方便
The new self-service breakfast boxes, launched by Alibaba's self-operated grocery retail chain Freshippo in July, have seen brisk business during rush hours in the morning.
阿里巴巴自营的连锁零售商店盒马鲜生于7月推出了这些新式自助早餐柜。这些早餐柜在早高峰期间生意火爆。
grocery retail chain 连锁零售商店
Freshippo 盒马鲜生
hippo 河马
brisk, quick; busy 快的；敏捷的；忙碌的
【反义词】经济不景气，stagnant
a stagnant economy
depression 经济大萧条
rush hours 高峰期
Freshippo has participated in a new breakfast project initiated by the Shanghai government, which aims to improve the city's breakfast service network with innovative models.
盒马鲜生参与了由上海市政府发起的一项全新的早餐工程，旨在用创新模式改善当地的早餐服务网络。
initiate, 发起， start; launch
initial 最初的，坚持你最初的梦想，Stick to your initial dream.
Zhou Lan, deputy director of the municipal commission of commerce, said: "In the past, we focused on the availability of breakfast service, and now more on quality. We want to let people have more convenient and healthier choices."
上海市商务委员会副主任周岚表示：“以前，我们的注意力放在早餐服务‘有没有’，而现在则更关注‘好不好’。我们想让人们拥有更方便也更健康的选择。”
deputy director, 副局长，副厅长；副院长
municipal commission of commerce
municipal adj. 市政的，市的
commission n. 委员会
commerce n. 贸易；商业
市商务委员会
availability 有效性; 可获得性 available
Shanghai was listed by the Ministry of Commerce as a pilot city for a National Breakfast Demonstration Project in 2011. Since then, Shanghai has built 24 industrialized and standardized central kitchens, supplying food for 7,800 stores selling breakfast and accounting for more than 50 percent of the city's breakfast supply.
2011年，上海市被国家商务部列为一项全国早餐示范工程的试点城市。自此之后，上海打造了24个工业化和标准化的中央厨房，为7800家销售早餐的商店供应食品，占全市早餐供应量超50%。
Ministry of Commerce 商务部
Ministry n. （政府的）部门
Commerce n. 商务部
e-commerce 电子商务
pilot adj. 试点的
pilot project 试验项目
pilot city 试点城市
Demonstration Project 示范项目
account for (数量、比例上) 占
Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption. 电脑占了这个国家商业用电的5%。
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