特朗普在亚洲吃了什么？

近日，美国总统特朗普结束亚洲之行，离开韩国。

今天你练听力了吗？

🤔️小作业：

1. What can be inferred about the host countries' strategy in organizing meals for Trump?

A. They used food as a subtle diplomatic tool

B. They deliberately avoided using local ingredients

C. They refused to adjust their menus to foreign preferences

D. They primarily aimed to promote traditional Asian cuisine to the U.S.

无注释原文：

U.S. Beef and Thousand Island Dressing: Trump's Food Tour of Asia

From: The New York Times

President Trump sat for a lunch in South Korea this week that paired local delicacies with some not-so-delicate plates: beef patties with ketchup and salad with Thousand Island dressing.

That was just the last stop on his Asia tour. Lunch in Malaysia on Sunday centered on U.S. Angus beef sandwiches. Lunch in Japan with its new prime minister on Tuesday featured American rice, instead of the local variety that is the country's pride.

The menus reflected the culinary acrobatics that Mr. Trump's host countries performed this week. They showcased local cuisine while making sure that his peculiar tastes and America First agenda were met, paving the way for what they hoped were successful trade negotiations.

Mr. Trump's culinary preferences are well documented. He is a lover of fast food, well-done steaks and dishes familiar to Americans like Caesar salads, spaghetti and fries. He also shuns coffee, tea and alcohol.

The lunch he shared with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea and business leaders on Wednesday was summed up by Mr. Lee's office as “fusion Korean cuisine featuring regional specialties from across the nation and tailored to President Trump's preferences.”

The White House picked up on the gesture, calling the Thousand Island dressing, tossed with South Korean shrimps, scallops and abalone, “a nod to Trump's New York roots.” It appeared to be his preferred dressing. He also had the condiment, which hails from near the border between New York and Ontario, the night before in Tokyo at the U.S. Ambassador's residence.

After the salad came braised short ribs made with U.S. beef, accompanied by Korean ingredients like kimchi, local rice, a root vegetable called deodeok and various types of jang, or traditional fermented pastes.

Then there were beef patties with ketchup, which Mr. Lee's office noted was “a favorite food of President Trump.” It added that the dessert was citrus with brownies decorated “with the color of gold that President Trump favors.”

The meal featured Korean black chicken, halibut, caviar and pine mushrooms sourced from various parts of South Korea. Beef and rice from Gyeongju, the site of the APEC summit, plus lobster, a Trump favorite, were included.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

U.S. Beef and Thousand Island Dressing: Trump's Food Tour of Asia

From: The New York Times

President Trump sat for a lunch in South Korea this week that paired local delicacies with some not-so-delicate plates: beef patties with ketchup and salad with Thousand Island dressing.

本周，特朗普总统在韩国出席了午餐会。餐桌上，韩国当地特色美食旁边摆放着几道看似不太精致的菜品：配番茄酱的牛肉饼和千岛酱沙拉。

delicate /ˈdel.ɪ.kət/ 1）表示“脆弱的；娇嫩的”，英文解释为“needing careful treatment, especially because easily damaged”举个🌰：Peaches have delicate skins which are easily bruised. 桃子的表皮很娇嫩，容易碰伤。

2）表示“需要小心处理的”，英文解释为“needing to be done carefully”举个🌰：Repairing damaged nerves is a very delicate operation/process. 修复受损神经的手术/过程需要非常小心谨慎。

3）表示“柔和的；轻柔的；清淡的”如：a delicate shade of pink 柔和的粉色。

📍a delicate situation, matter, point, etc. 表示“微妙的形势（问题，时刻等）”，英文解释为“a situation. matter, etc. that needs to be dealt with carefully in order to avoid trouble or offence”举个🌰：I need to speak to you about a delicate matter. 我要跟你谈一件很棘手的事情。

作名词，plate /pleɪt/ 1）表示“盘子，碟子”，英文解释为“a flat, usually round dish with a slightly raised edge that you eat from or serve food from”如：paper/plastic/china plates 纸/塑料/瓷盘子。

2）表示“一盘；一盘之量”，英文解释为“an amount of food on a plate”举个🌰：Stephen ate three plates of spaghetti. 斯蒂芬吃了3盘意大利面条。

3）表示“平板；板条；板材”，英文解释为“a flat piece of something that is hard and does not bend” Plate在地质学中特指tectonic plate 构造板块，即地球岩石圈（lithosphere）被分割成的刚性巨块。

4）表示“表面有镀层的金属制品；贵重金属制品（尤指餐具）”，英文解释为“ordinary metal with a layer of another metal on top”举个🌰：The knives and forks are silver plate. 这些刀叉是镀银的。The thieves got away with a large quantity of church plate. 小偷盗走了教堂中大量的餐具。

常见搭配：Plate tectonics 板块构造学说，Plate boundary 板块边界，Continental/oceanic plate 大陆板块/大洋板块。

作动词，表示“镀上；用（金、银等）覆镀”，英文解释为“to cover a metal object with a thin layer of another metal, especially gold or silver”举个🌰：We normally plate the car handles with nickel and then chrome. 我们通常先用镍再用铬来镀汽车的拉手。

ketchup /ˈketʃ.ʌp/ 表示“番茄酱”，英文解释为“a thick, cold, red sauce made from tomatoes”举个🌰：Do you want some ketchup with your burger? 你的汉堡要加些番茄酱吗？

熟词僻义，1）表示“佐料，调料（常由油、醋及香草混制而成，尤用于拌色拉）”，英文解释为“A salad dressing is a mixture of oil, vinegar, and herbs or flavourings, which you pour over salad.”举个🌰：Mix the ingredients for the dressing in a bowl. 在碗里把这些配料搅拌成调味品。

2）表示“（保护伤口的）敷料，纱布”，英文解释为“A dressing is a covering that is put on a wound to protect it while it heals.”举个🌰：She will put a dressing on your thumb. 她将在你的大拇指上包一层敷料。

That was just the last stop on his Asia tour. Lunch in Malaysia on Sunday centered on U.S. Angus beef sandwiches. Lunch in Japan with its new prime minister on Tuesday featured American rice, instead of the local variety that is the country's pride.

这是他此次亚洲之行的最后一站。他周日在马来西亚的午餐以美国安格斯牛肉三明治为主；周二与日本新任首相共进午餐时，餐桌上选用了美国大米，而非日本引以为傲的本土大米。

The menus reflected the culinary acrobatics that Mr. Trump's host countries performed this week. They showcased local cuisine while making sure that his peculiar tastes and America First agenda were met, paving the way for what they hoped were successful trade negotiations.

这些菜单体现了本周特朗普所到国家在饮食上的精心调配。东道国们既要展示本国美食，又要确保满足特朗普独特的口味与“美国优先”议程，为他们期望的成功贸易谈判铺路。

culinary /ˈkʌl.ɪ.nər.i/ 表示“烹饪的；厨房的”，英文解释为“connected with cooking or kitchens”如：the culinary delights (= good food) of Beijing 北京的美味菜肴。

acrobatics /ˌæk.rəˈbæt.ɪks/ 表示“杂技”，英文解释为“the skills of an acrobat”举个🌰：He had spent the last ten years in a Peking Opera school, studying martial arts and acrobatics. 过去10年里，他一直在一所京剧学校里学习武术和杂技。

在这个语境里，“acrobatics”是一个比喻（metaphor），用来形容一种需要高超技巧、灵活应变、甚至有些复杂和惊险的努力或行为。中文对应词可以是：“精心编排/巧妙平衡/煞费苦心”。

cuisine /kwɪˈziːn/ 表示“烹调风格；饭菜，菜肴”，英文解释为“The cuisine of a country or district is the style of cooking that is characteristic of that place.”

peculiar /pɪˈkjuː.li.ər/ 1）表示“奇怪的，古怪的”，英文解释为“unusual and strange, sometimes in an unpleasant way”举个🌰：What a peculiar smell! 多么奇怪的气味！

2）表示“独特的，特有的”，英文解释为“belonging to, relating to, or found in only particular people or things”举个🌰：He gets on with things in his own peculiar way/manner/fashion. 他处理事情有自己独特的方法/方式。

表示“（为…）铺平道路，（为…）创造条件”，英文解释为“If something paves the way for/to something else, it makes the other thing possible.”举个🌰：Scientists hope that data from the probe will pave the way for a more detailed exploration of Mars. 科学家们希望探测飞船发回的数据会为更深入地探索火星提供条件。

Mr. Trump's culinary preferences are well documented. He is a lover of fast food, well-done steaks and dishes familiar to Americans like Caesar salads, spaghetti and fries. He also shuns coffee, tea and alcohol.

特朗普的饮食偏好有诸多记录可查。他喜欢快餐、全熟牛排，以及凯撒沙拉、意大利面、薯条等美国人熟悉的菜品。同时他不喝咖啡和茶，也不饮酒。

shun /ʃʌn/ 表示“有意回避；避开；避免”，英文解释为“If you shun someone or something, you deliberately avoid them or keep away from them.”举个🌰：From that time forward everybody shunned him. 从那时起，人人都有意回避他。

🎬电影《简·爱》（Jane Eyre）中的台词提到：Children, I exhort you to shun her, exclude her, shut her out from this day forth. 孩子们，奉劝你们离她远点，排斥她，从今天起与她隔绝。

The lunch he shared with President Lee Jae Myung of South Korea and business leaders on Wednesday was summed up by Mr. Lee's office as “fusion Korean cuisine featuring regional specialties from across the nation and tailored to President Trump's preferences.”

周三，他与韩国总统李在明及商界领袖共同享用的午餐被李在明办公室描述为“融合韩国各地特色、贴合特朗普总统口味的韩式融合料理”。

fusion /ˈfjuː.ʒən/ 表示“融合；结合；熔合；合并”，英文解释为“an occasion when two or more things join or are combined”如：nuclear fusion 核聚变。

表示“专门制作，使适应特定需要”，英文解释为“to make or prepare something following particular instructions”举个🌰：We tailor any of our products to your company's specific needs. 我们可以根据贵公司的特定需求定制产品。

The White House picked up on the gesture, calling the Thousand Island dressing, tossed with South Korean shrimps, scallops and abalone, “a nod to Trump's New York roots.” It appeared to be his preferred dressing. He also had the condiment, which hails from near the border between New York and Ontario, the night before in Tokyo at the U.S. Ambassador's residence.

白宫也注意到了这一姿态，称那道搭配韩国虾、扇贝和鲍鱼的千岛酱沙拉是“对特朗普纽约渊源的致敬”。千岛酱显然是特朗普偏爱的调味酱。前一晚在东京的美国大使官邸，他的餐桌上也使用了这种源自纽约与安大略省边境一带的调味品。

toss /tɒs/ 1）表示“扔，掷，抛”，英文解释为“to throw something, especially something light, with a quick gentle movement of your hand”举个🌰：She crumpled the letter and tossed it into the fire. 她把信揉成一团，扔进了火里。

2）表示“摇匀，搅拌（食物）”，英文解释为“When you toss food you shake or mix small pieces of it together with a sauce or dressing.”如：a tossed salad 拌色拉。

condiment /ˈkɒndɪmənt/ 表示“调料”，英文解释为“A condiment is a substance such as salt, pepper, or mustard that you add to food when you eat it in order to improve the flavour.”

hail from 表示“来自；出生于”，英文解释为“to come from or have been born in a particular place”例如： His father hailed from Italy. 他父亲出生于意大利。

hail /heɪl/ 作动词 1）表示“招呼，呼喊”，英文解释为“to call someone in order to attract their attention”举个🌰：Shall we hail a taxi? 我们要叫出租车吗？

2）hail sb/sth as sth 表示“把…称赞为，把…誉为”，英文解释为“to describe sb/sth as being very good or special, especially in newspapers, etc.”举个🌰：The conference was hailed as a great success. 会议被称颂为一次巨大的成功。

hail作不可数名词，表示“雹，冰雹”，英文解释为“small, hard balls of ice that fall from the sky like rain”，hailstones 通常复数，表示“冰雹，雹子”，英文解释为“a small, hard ball of ice that falls from the sky like rain”

📍ride-hailing 表示“约车，叫车”，英文解释为“used for or involved in the activity of asking for a car and driver to come immediately and take you somewhere”举个🌰：Do you use a ride-hailing app? 你用约车APP吗？

After the salad came braised short ribs made with U.S. beef, accompanied by Korean ingredients like kimchi, local rice, a root vegetable called deodeok and various types of jang, or traditional fermented pastes.

沙拉之后是用美国牛肉制作的炖牛小排，搭配了泡菜、本地大米、名为沙参的根茎蔬菜，以及多种传统发酵酱料等韩国食材。

braise /breɪz/ 表示“（用文火）炖，焖”，英文解释为“to cook food slowly in a covered dish in a little fat and liquid”如：braised celery 焖烧香芹，braise the lamb in wine. 在葡萄酒中炖煮羊肉。

rib /rɪb/ 1）表示“肋骨”，英文解释为“a bone that curves round from your back to your chest”举个🌰：My son broke a rib when he fell off a ladder. 我儿子从梯子上摔了下来，摔断了一根肋骨。

2）表示“排骨（肉）；肋条（肉）”，英文解释为“a piece of meat taken from this part of an animal”举个🌰：He cooked rib of lamb for Sunday lunch. 星期天午饭时他做了羊排。

ferment /fəˈment/ 表示“（使）发酵”，英文解释为“If food or drink ferments or if you ferment it, it goes through a chemical change because of the action of yeast or bacteria, which may cause it to produce bubbles or heat, or turn sugars in it into alcohol. ”举个🌰：You make wine by leaving grape juice to ferment until all the sugar has turned to alcohol. 酿葡萄酒是让葡萄汁发酵，直到所有的糖分都转化为酒精。

Then there were beef patties with ketchup, which Mr. Lee's office noted was “a favorite food of President Trump.” It added that the dessert was citrus with brownies decorated “with the color of gold that President Trump favors.”

随后上桌的是搭配番茄酱的牛肉饼，李在明办公室称这是“特朗普总统最爱的食物之一”。办公室还称，餐后甜点是柑橘配布朗尼，装饰着“特朗普总统喜爱的金色”。

citrus /ˈsɪt.rəs/ 表示“柑橘类果树”，英文解释为“any of a group of plants that produce acidic fruits with a lot of juice”举个🌰：The field was planted with citrus trees. 地里种着柑橘树。Oranges, lemons, limes and grapefruit are types of citrus fruit. 橘子、柠檬、酸橙和葡萄柚属于柑橘属水果。

The meal featured Korean black chicken, halibut, caviar and pine mushrooms sourced from various parts of South Korea. Beef and rice from Gyeongju, the site of the APEC summit, plus lobster, a Trump favorite, were included.

这场特色宴席的食材包括韩国各地采购的乌鸡、比目鱼、鱼子酱和松茸。菜单中还包含了亚太经合组织峰会举办地庆州出产的牛肉与大米，以及特朗普钟爱的龙虾。

表示“龙虾；龙虾肉”，英文解释为“an animal that lives in the sea and has a long body covered with a hard shell, two large claws, and eight legs, or its flesh when used as food”

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