Enquire within upon everything: The great Victorian-era domestic standby — Page 13
近年来,英国牡蛎变得稀少而昂贵;因此,美国蓝点牡蛎找到了现成的市场。
Of late years English oysters have become scarce and dear; and in consequence the American Blue Point oysters find a ready market.
牛肉。
Beef.
优质公牛牛肉的纹理疏松,肉色鲜红,脂肪略带黄色。
The grain of ox beef, when good, is loose, the meat red, and the fat inclining to yellow.
相反,母牛牛肉纹理较紧密,脂肪较白,但肉色几乎不如公牛牛肉那样鲜红。
Cow beef, on the contrary, has a closer grain and whiter fat, but the meat is scarcely as red as that of ox beef.
劣质牛肉来自饲养不良的牲畜或年龄过大不宜食用的牲畜,其特征是脂肪坚硬多筋,瘦肉呈深红色,老年动物的肋骨肉中还会有一条角质纹路贯穿其中。
Inferior beef, which is meat obtained from ill-fed animals, or from those which had become too old for food, may be known by a hard, skinny fat, a dark red lean, and, in old animals, a line of horny texture running through the meat of the ribs.
当肉在被手指按压后迅速弹起,可以认为该动物正值壮年;但如果按压留下的凹痕恢复缓慢或仍然可见,则该动物可能已过了壮年,肉质因此必然较为低劣。
When meat rises up quickly, after being pressed by the finger, it may be considered as being the flesh of an animal which was in its prime; but when the dent made by pressure returns slowly, or remains visible, the animal had probably passed its prime, and the meat consequently must be of inferior quality.
小牛肉。
Veal
小牛肉应呈细嫩的白色,但颜色较深时往往也多汁且味道鲜美。
should be delicately white, though it is often juicy and well-flavoured when rather dark in colour.
据说屠夫在宰杀小牛之前会故意为其放血,目的是使肉色变白,但这样做也会使肉质干燥无味。
Butchers, it is said, bleed calves purposely before killing them, with a view to make the flesh white, but this also makes it dry and flavourless.
检查腰部时,如果包裹肾脏的脂肪洁白而结实,则该肉很可能是上等的新鲜肉。
On examining the loin, if the fat enveloping the kidney be white and firm-looking, the meat will probably be prime and recently killed.
Vocabulary
- late
- 近来,最近一段时间
- years
- 年,年份,复数形式
- English
- 英国的,英语的
- oysters
- 牡蛎,一种可食用的贝类
- become
- 变得,变成某种状态
- scarce
- 稀少的,供应不足的
- dear
- 昂贵的,价格高的
- consequence
- 结果,因此,作为后果
- American
- 美国的,美国产的
- find
- 找到,获得,发现市场
- ready
- 现成的,容易得到的
- market
- 市场,销路,需求
- Beef
- 牛肉,来自牛的肉类
- grain
- 肉的纹理,纤维质地
- ox
- 公牛,阉割后的雄牛
- beef
- 牛肉,食用牛的肉
- good
- 好的,质量优良的
- loose
- 松散的,纹理不紧密的
- meat
- 肉,食用的动物肉
- red
- 红色的,颜色鲜红的
- fat
- 脂肪,肉上的油脂部分
- inclining
- 倾向于,偏向某种颜色
- yellow
- 黄色的,偏黄色调
- Cow
- 母牛,雌性牛
- contrary
- 相反,反之,对比
- closer
- 更紧密的,纹理更细密
- whiter
- 更白的,颜色更浅白
- scarcely
- 几乎不,勉强,不太
- Inferior
- 劣质的,品质低下的
- obtained
- 获得的,来自某来源的
- ill-fed
- 饲养不良的,营养不足的
- animals
- 动物,牲畜,复数形式
- old
- 老的,年龄过大的
- food
- 食物,食用,供食用
- known
- 辨别,识别,被认识到
- hard
- 硬的,坚硬的,触感硬
- skinny
- 瘦削的,肌肉稀少的
- dark
- 深色的,暗色,颜色深暗
- lean
- 瘦肉,含脂肪少的部分
- line
- 线条,纹路,条纹
- horny
- 角质的,坚硬如角质
- texture
- 质地,纹理,触感结构
- running
- 贯穿,延伸,通过其中
- ribs
- 肋骨,排骨,肋排部位
- rises
- 恢复,弹起,上升
- quickly
- 迅速地,很快地
- pressed
- 被按压,受到压力的
- finger
- 手指,用手指按压
- considered
- 被认为,被视为
- flesh
- 肌肉,肉,动物肌体
- animal
- 动物,牲畜,一头动物
- prime
- 全盛期,最佳状态时期
- dent
- 凹痕,按压后留下的痕迹
- pressure
- 压力,按压,施压力度
- returns
- 恢复,弹回,回到原状
- slowly
- 缓慢地,慢慢地
- remains
- 保留,仍然可见,留存
- visible
- 可见的,能看见的
- probably
- 可能,大概,很可能
- passed
- 过了全盛期,已衰老
- consequently
- 因此,所以,结果是
- must
- 必然是,一定,情态动词
- inferior
- 劣质的,品质较差的
- quality
- 质量,品质,好坏程度
- Veal
- 小牛肉,幼牛的肉
- delicately
- 细腻地,精致地,淡雅地
- white
- 白色的,颜色洁白
- though
- 虽然,尽管,转折连词
- often
- 经常,常常,频繁地
- juicy
- 多汁的,肉质湿润
- well-flavoured
- 味道好的,风味佳的
- rather
- 略微,有点,相当地
- colour
- 颜色,色泽,色调
- Butchers
- 屠夫,肉贩,卖肉者
- bleed
- 放血,使动物流血
- calves
- 小牛,幼牛,复数形式
- purposely
- 故意地,有意地,刻意
- killing
- 宰杀,杀死,屠宰
- view
- 目的,意图,为了使
- dry
- 干燥的,缺乏水分的
- flavourless
- 无味的,缺乏风味的
- examining
- 检查,仔细察看,检验
- loin
- 腰部,腰肉,腰脊肉
- enveloping
- 包裹,覆盖,围绕在外
- kidney
- 肾脏,腰子,内脏器官
- firm-looking
- 看起来紧实的,坚挺外观
- recently
- 最近,不久前,新近
- killed
- 宰杀的,新鲜屠宰的
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