Section 3: At Home in the Evening

Unit 23: Making Spaghetti

做细通心面(意大利面)

Making Spaghetti

dicing an onion
Kate diced an onion...
frying ground beef in a pan
...and fried it with some ground beef in a frying pan.
stirring the beef and onion
As the beef-and-onion mixture fried, she stirred it.
meat browned, burner off
When the meat was brown, she turned off the burner.
pouring fat off into a can
She poured the fat off into a can.
heating tomato sauce in a saucepan
She heated two cans of tomato sauce in a saucepan.
adding the beef and onion mixture
She added the mixture of beef and onions...
stirring with spices
...and stirred it into the sauce with some spices.
sauce starting to boil
When it started to boil...
turning down the heat, simmering
...she turned down the heat and let the sauce simmer.
boiling water in another pan
In another pan, she boiled some water.
putting spaghetti into boiling water
She put some spaghetti into the boiling water...
boiling spaghetti until tender
...and boiled it until it was tender.
draining spaghetti in a colander
In a colander, she drained the spaghetti.
ladling sauce over the spaghetti
After putting the spaghetti on a plate, she ladled some sauce over it.

Liquids and Solids

Some liquids
water
water
melted butter
melted butter
tomato sauce
tomato sauce
Some solids
pan
pan
spaghetti
spaghetti
onion
onion
a piece of butter
a piece of butter
sugar
sugar

For Special Attention

ground beef = meat from a cow that has been ground into small pieces — 来自牛的肉,已经被绞成小碎块。
fat = an oily part of meat. It becomes a liquid when the meat cooks. — 肉中油腻的部分。肉烹饪时脂肪会变成液体。
pour off / drain = to separate a liquid from a solid, you can pour off the liquid or drain the solid. — 要把液体和固体分开,你可以把液体倒出来(pour off),或者把固体沥干(drain)。
spaghetti = a kind of noodle — 一种面条。
spices = some spices often used in spaghetti sauce are oregano and basil. They add taste to the sauce. — 意大利面酱中常用的香料有牛至(oregano)和罗勒(basil)。它们为酱汁增添风味。
simmer = when a liquid cooks slowly and gently — 液体用小火慢慢地、温和地煮。
tender = if spaghetti is tender, it is soft enough to eat — 意大利面煮到软到可以吃了。
fry / boil = possible ways to use fry and boil: Kate fried the meat. / The meat fried. / Kate boiled the water. / The water boiled. / The noodles boiled in the water. — fry 和 boil 的用法示例:Kate fried the meat. / The meat fried. / Kate boiled the water. / The water boiled. / The noodles boiled in the water。
ladle = to use a ladle to pour sauce onto spaghetti — 用长柄勺把酱汁浇在意大利面上。

Key Vocabulary

Verbs

单词音标中文
add/æd/添加;加入
boil/bɔɪl/煮沸;煮
dice/daɪs/切成丁
drain/dreɪn/沥干;滤干
fry/fraɪ/煎;炒
heat/hit/加热
ladle/ˈleɪdəl/用勺舀
let [let]/lɛt [lɛt]/让;使
pour off/pɔr ɔf/倒出(液体)
put [put]/pʊt [pʊt]/放;放置
simmer/ˈsɪmɚ/文火慢炖;焖
start/stɑrt/开始
stir/stɚ/搅拌
turn down/tɜrn daʊn/调小;调低
turn off/tɜrn ɔf/关掉;关闭

Nouns

单词音标中文
beef/bif/牛肉
burner/ˈbɜrnɚ/炉头;灶眼
butter/ˈbʌtɚ/黄油
can/kən/罐;听
colander/ˈkɑləndɚ/滤锅;沥水篮
fat/fæt/脂肪;油脂
frying pan/fraɪɪŋ pæn/煎锅
ground beef/graʊnd bif/碎牛肉;牛肉末
heat/hit/热度;火力
ladle/ˈleɪdəl/长柄勺
liquid/ˈlɪkwɪd/液体
meat/mit/
mixture/ˈmɪksʧɚ/混合物
onion/ˈʌnjən/洋葱
pan/pæn/
(a) piece/(ə) pis/一块;一片
plate/pleɪt/盘子
sauce/sɔs/酱汁;调味汁
saucepan/ˈsɔˌspæn/深平底锅;炖锅
solid/ˈsɑləd/固体
spaghetti/spəˈgɛti/意大利细面
spatula/ˈspæˌʧʊlə/锅铲;刮刀
spice/spaɪs/香料
sugar/ˈʃʊgɚ/
tomato sauce/təˈmɑˌtoʊ sɔs/番茄酱
water/ˈwɔtɚ/

Adjectives

单词音标中文
another/əˈnʌðɚ/另一个
brown/braʊn/变成棕色的;煎至焦黄的
melted/ˈmɛltɪd/融化的
tender/ˈtɛndɚ/软的;煮软的;嫩的