早餐是一天中最重要的一餐吗？ ⏲️ 6分钟英语：英语精读讲义

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Hello, this is Six Minute English from BBC Learning English.

大家好，这里是 BBC 英语教学的六分钟英语。

I'm Georgie.

我是 Georgie。

And I'm Phil.

我是 Phil。

Did you have any breakfast today, Georgie?

你今天吃早餐了吗，Georgie？

Or did you skip it?

还是你跳过了？

I did have some breakfast. 語法

我确实吃了点早餐。

Um on the way to the office, 短語搭配

嗯，在去办公室的路上，

I got myself a pastry and a coffee. 短語搭配

我给自己买了一个糕点和一杯咖啡。

What about you? 語氣意圖

你呢？

I had a big bowl of porridge,

我吃了一大碗燕麦粥，

but it was at 6:00 this morning, so I'm hungry again now.

但那是在今早六点，所以我现在又饿了。

And you might soon be hungry as well,

你可能很快也会饿的，

because we're going to talk about breakfast.

因为我们要谈论早餐。

How important is it?

它有多重要？

Let's start by hearing from Professor Alexandra Johnstone, 表達脈絡

让我们先听听 Alexandra Johnstone 教授的看法，

a nutrition scientist who spoke to Ruth Alexander,

她是一位营养科学家，在接受 Ruth Alexander 采访时这样说道，

host of BBC World Service program The Food Chain.

Ruth Alexander 是 BBC 世界频道节目《The Food Chain》的主持人。

I am supporting the meme breakfast like a king and dine like a pauper. 習語

我很赞同这种说法：早餐吃得像国王，晚餐吃得像乞丐。

For you, then, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. 講解

那么对您来说，早餐是一天中最重要的一餐。

I agree. So, it's really important,

我同意。所以它真的非常重要，

particularly for people who are trying to maintain a healthy weight and people who are trying to lose weight. 短語搭配

特别是对于试图保持健康体重和试图减肥的人来说。

Alexandra says that you should breakfast like a king and dine like a pauper.

Alexandra 说，你应该早餐吃得像国王，晚餐吃得像乞丐（pauper）。

Pauper is an old-fashioned word for a very poor person. 用詞

Pauper 是个老派词汇，意思是极度贫穷的人。

The expression means have a big breakfast and a small dinner.

这个表达的意思是早餐要吃得丰盛，晚餐要吃得少。

We're going to find out some of the reasons that Alexandra and other experts recommend doing this. 短語動詞

我们将找出 Alexandra 和其他专家推荐这样做的几个原因。

And as usual, we'll learn some useful new words and phrases.

像往常一样，我们会学习一些有用的新单词和短语。

And remember, you'll find all the vocabulary and a quiz on our website bbclearningenglish.com.

记住，你可以在我们的网站 bbclearningenglish.com 找到所有词汇和测试题。

Okay, but first I have a question for you, Phil.

好的，但首先我有个问题要问你，Phil。

According to a recent survey, 短語搭配

根据最近的一项调查，

which of the following is the most popular breakfast in the UK? 短語搭配

以下哪种是英国最受欢迎的早餐？

Is it A, eggs, B, toast, or C, cereal?

是 A. 鸡蛋，B. 吐司，还是 C. 谷物麦片？

Well, I think people like to keep it simple, 習語

呃，我觉得人们喜欢保持简单，

so I'm going to say toast. 語氣意圖

所以我选吐司。

Okay, well, we'll find out the answer later in the program.

好的，我们将在节目稍后揭晓答案。

Let's hear some reasons for why we should breakfast like a king or queen.

让我们听听为什么我们应该把早餐吃得像国王或女王的几个理由。

Courtney Peterson, who researches eating behaviors,

研究饮食行为的 Courtney Peterson，

explains how the time of day affects how our bodies process food on BBC World Service program The Food Chain. 語法

在 BBC 世界频道的《The Food Chain》节目中解释了一天中的不同时间如何影响我们的身体消化食物。

And so, if you can eat a large breakfast in the morning,

所以，如果你能在早上吃一顿丰盛的早餐，

and or I would even say a large lunch in the morning, 語氣意圖

或者我甚至可以说在早上吃一顿丰盛的午餐，

your body's going to be better at metabolizing that food. 語法

你的身体会更好地代谢那些食物。

And what that means is your body's going to actually... 表達脈絡

那意味着你的身体实际上会……

your blood sugar levels won't spike as high. 語法

你的血糖水平不会飙升得那么高。

You might burn slightly more fat, 短語搭配

你可能会燃烧稍微多一点的脂肪，

you might burn slightly more calories from eating earlier in the day.

在一天中较早进食，你可能会燃烧稍微多一点的卡路里。

Um whereas if you had... 表達脈絡

嗯，而如果你……

If you eat most of your food later in the day,

如果你在一天中较晚的时候吃下大部分食物，

your metabolism's actually slower later in the day.

你的新陈代谢实际上在一天较晚的时候会更慢。

So, for instance, 表達脈絡

所以，举个例子，

if you ate the same,

如果你吃同样的一碗……

I don't know, 語氣意圖

比如，

bowl of ice cream in the morning,

冰淇淋，分别在早上、

the afternoon,

下午、

and the evening,

和晚上吃，

your blood sugar levels will spike significantly higher in the afternoon and the evening. 用詞

你的血糖水平在下午和晚上会显著飙升得更高。

We heard the noun metabolism.

我们听到了名词 metabolism（新陈代谢）。

This is a word that refers to the chemical processes in your body, 短語搭配

这个词指的是你体内的化学过程，

and we most often use it to talk about those that convert food into energy. 短語搭配

我们最常使用它来谈论那些将食物转化为能量的过程。

And we also heard the verb form metabolize.

我们还听到了它的动词形式 metabolize（代谢）。

Courtney talked about blood sugar levels spiking.

Courtney 谈到了血糖水平的 spiking（飙升）。

A spike is a sharp pointed shape.

Spike（尖峰）是一个尖锐的形状。

If you see it on a line graph,

如果你在折线图上看到它，

it means that something has increased very rapidly.

它意味着某物非常迅速地增加了。

We often use the noun spike to mean a sudden increase in a value that is being measured.

我们经常使用名词 spike 来表示被测量的数值突然增加。

The verb spike means to suddenly increase.

动词 spike 则意味着突然增加。

We've heard that eating earlier in the day can be healthier for us. 短語搭配

我们已经听说在一天中较早进食对我们可能更健康。

Now, people often don't eat breakfast,

如今，人们经常不吃早餐，

sometimes because they don't have time,

有时是因为他们没有时间，

sometimes because they're trying to save money. 短語搭配

有时是因为他们试图省钱。

Let's hear again from Professor Alexandra Johnstone,

让我们再次听听 Alexandra Johnstone 教授的说法，

talking to BBC World Service's The Food Chain.

也就是她在 BBC 世界频道《The Food Chain》节目中的讲话。

Now, breakfast skipping is interesting because

不吃早餐很有趣，因为

my own work would tend to suggest 語氣意圖

我自己的研究倾向于表明，

and that sort of observational large-scale epidemiological studies would also support this... 用詞

并且那种观察性的大规模流行病学研究也会支持这一点……

that people who have a regular breakfast are actually leaner, 講解

规律吃早餐的人实际上更苗条，

and my own work would tend to suggest

并且我自己的研究也倾向于表明，

that having your largest meal of the day in the morning period 語法

在早晨时段吃一天中最丰盛的一餐，

gives you a much better appetite control, 用詞

能让你更好地控制食欲，

which then means it's much easier to control food intake later in the day. 講解

这意味着你在一天中晚些时候会更容易控制食物的摄入量。

Alexandra starts by mentioning breakfast skipping. 用詞

Alexandra 一开始提到了 breakfast skipping（不吃早餐）。

If you skip something, then you don't do it.

如果你 skip（跳过）某件事，就是你不去做它。

Bad students might skip lessons,

坏学生可能会 skip lessons（逃课），

they don't go to them.

他们不去上课。

If you skip a meal, it means that you don't eat it.

如果你 skip a meal（跳过一餐），意思就是你不吃它。

We also heard that people who have a regular breakfast are leaner.

我们还听说规律吃早餐的人更 lean（苗条）。

If someone is lean, then they're not fat.

如果一个人是 lean，那他们就不胖。

And one of the reasons given why people might be leaner is that they have better appetite control.

而人们可能更苗条的一个原因是他们有更好的 appetite control（食欲控制）。

Appetite control is where your brain decides how much you should eat.

食欲控制是指你的大脑决定你应该吃多少。

Thanks, Georgie.

谢谢你，Georgie。

Now, I think it's time that we heard the answer to your question. 語法

现在，我觉得是时候听听你那个问题的答案了。

Yes, it is.

是的。

Okay, I asked, "According to a recent survey, what is the most popular breakfast in the UK?"

好的，我问的是：“根据最近的一项调查，英国最受欢迎的早餐是什么？”

And I said, "Toast."

我回答了：“吐司。”

Which was the most popular in London,

它在伦敦确实是最受欢迎的，

but the most popular in the country as a whole was cereal. 短語搭配

但就全国总体而言，最受欢迎的是谷物麦片。

And that's according to a survey by a cereal manufacturer.

这是根据一家谷物麦片制造商的调查得出的。

So, I'm afraid you got it wrong. 語氣意圖

所以，恐怕你猜错了。

Okay, let's recap the vocabulary we've learned, 表達脈絡

好的，让我们回顾一下我们学到的词汇，

starting with pauper,

从 pauper 开始，

which is an old-fashioned word for a very poor person.

这是一个老派词汇，用来形容极度贫穷的人。

When we're talking about data,

当我们谈论数据时，

it spikes when it increases suddenly.

如果它 spike，意思是它突然增加了。

Metabolism refers to the chemical processes inside your body,

Metabolism 指的是体内的化学过程，

especially those which process food.

特别是处理食物的那些过程。

If you skip something,

如果你 skip 某件事，

you miss it,

你就错过了它，

you don't do it.

也就是你没做这件事。

If someone is lean,

如果某人很 lean，

then they are not fat.

那他们就不胖。

And finally, appetite control is how your brain decides how much you should eat.

最后，appetite control 是指你的大脑决定你应该吃多少。

Once again, our Six Minutes are up, 習語

我们的六分钟又一次到了，

but why not head over to our website bbclearningenglish.com to try the quiz and worksheet for this episode. 講解

但为什么不去我们的网站 bbclearningenglish.com 试试本期节目的测试和练习题呢。

See you again soon.

下次见。

Goodbye.

再见。

Bye.

拜拜。

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