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Pasties are very filling.
肉餡餅很能填滿肚子
| 對話 Harley:I'd like something to eat to go with our beer. Fancy a pasty? 哈利:我提議吃些東西配啤酒。吃個肉餡餅好嗎？ Evan:Never heard of that, what is it? 埃文:沒聽過肉餡餅，究竟是甚麼？ Harley:It's minced beef and potatoes baked in a pastry casing in a half- circle shape. 哈利:那是碎牛肉和馬鈴薯，用糕餅皮包好，作成半圓形，烘烤成餅。 Evan:Sounds good, I'll go for it. 埃文:聽來不錯，我贊成。 Harley:You won't regret it; pasties are very filling and very tasty. 哈利:你不會後悔的。肉餡餅很能填飽肚子，也很好吃。 Evan:What's their origin? 埃文:肉餡餅的來源是甚麼？ Harley:They say that miners' wives used to make them as lunch for their husbands to eat in the mine. 哈利:據說，從前礦工的妻子會幫丈夫做肉餡餅，帶到礦坑裡當午餐。 |
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肉餡包，包食飽 哈利說：Pasties are very filling。Filling作名詞，可指食物的餡；作形容詞，則是「能填飽肚子」的意思，例如：(1) There are cakes with a jam filling, and there are cakes with a cream filling（有些糕餅以果醬作餡，有些則以奶油作餡）。(2) Fruit is generally not very filling（水果一般不怎麼能夠填飽肚子）。哈利談到肉餡餅的製法，其中minced beef和pastry casing這幾個字應該談談。Mince讀者大概都知道是「切碎」，例如：I minced the onion finely（我把洋蔥細細剁碎）。Mince one's words或mince matters 卻是甚麼意思呢？這當然不是「把說話、事情切碎」，而是「把難聽的話婉轉說出來」。不過，這兩個說法一般用於否定句，即not mince one's words、not mince matters，例如：(1) Mincing no words, he told us that our plan was bound to fail（他毫不客氣的跟我們說，我們的計劃必定失敗）。(2) He did not mince matters, but gave us a very realistic picture of the situation（他說話很直率，把實際情況告訴了我們）。Pastry casing的casing是「殼」，例如：I don't like rubbery sausage casing（我不喜歡臘腸皮像橡皮一樣堅靭）。Pastry則不可和pasty混淆。Pastry可以指做糕餅所用的皮，也可以指糕餅，例如：(1) She put the pastry-wrapped beef in a baking pan（她把糕餅皮包著的牛肉放在烤鍋上）。(2) We had some pastries with our tea（我們喝茶，也吃了些糕餅）。 |