早餐是一天中最重要的一餐嗎？ ⏲️ 6分鐘英語：英語精讀講義

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來自 bbclearningenglish.com 的六分鐘英語。

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

大家好，這裡是 BBC 英語教學的六分鐘英語。

I'm Georgie.

我是 Georgie。

And I'm Phil.

我是 Phil。

Did you have any breakfast today, Georgie?

你今天吃早餐了嗎，Georgie？

Or did you skip it?

還是你跳過了？

I did have some breakfast. 文法

我確實吃了點早餐。

Um on the way to the office, 片語搭配

嗯，在去辦公室的路上，

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

我給自己買了一個糕點和一杯咖啡。

What about you? 語氣意圖

你呢？

I had a big bowl of porridge,

我吃了一大碗燕麥粥，

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

但那是在今早六點，所以我現在又餓了。

And you might soon be hungry as well,

你可能很快也會餓的，

because we're going to talk about breakfast.

因為我們要談論早餐。

How important is it?

它有多重要？

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

讓我們先聽聽 Alexandra Johnstone 教授的看法，

a nutrition scientist who spoke to Ruth Alexander,

她是一位營養科學家，在接受 Ruth Alexander 採訪時這樣說道，

host of BBC World Service program The Food Chain.

Ruth Alexander 是 BBC 世界頻道節目《The Food Chain》的主持人。

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

我很贊同這種說法：早餐吃得像國王，晚餐吃得像乞丐。

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

那麼對您來說，早餐是一天中最重要的餐點。

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. 片語搭配

特別是對於試圖保持健康體重和試圖減肥的人來說。

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

Alexandra 說，你應該早餐吃得像國王，晚餐吃得像乞丐（pauper）。

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

Pauper 是個老派詞彙，意思是極度貧窮的人。

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

這個表達的意思是早餐要吃得豐盛，晚餐要吃得少。

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

我們將找出 Alexandra 和其他專家推薦這樣做的幾個原因。

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

像往常一樣，我們會學習一些有用的新單詞和短語。

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

記住，你可以在我們的網站 bbclearningenglish.com 找到所有詞彙和測驗題。

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

好的，但首先我有個問題要問你，Phil。

According to a recent survey, 片語搭配

根據最近的一項調查，

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

以下哪種是英國最受歡迎的早餐？

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

是 A. 雞蛋，B. 吐司，還是 C. 穀物麥片？

Well, I think people like to keep it simple, 慣用語

呃，我覺得人們喜歡保持簡單，

so I'm going to say toast. 語氣意圖

所以我選吐司。

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

好的，我們將在節目稍後揭曉答案。

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

讓我們聽聽為什麼我們應該把早餐吃得像國王或女王的幾個理由。

Courtney Peterson, who researches eating behaviors,

研究飲食行為的 Courtney Peterson，

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

在 BBC 世界頻道的《The Food Chain》節目中解釋了一天中的不同時間如何影響我們的身體消化食物。

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

所以，如果你能在早上吃一頓豐盛的早餐，

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

或者我甚至可以說在早上吃一頓豐盛的午餐，

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

你的身體會更好地代謝那些食物。

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

那意味著你的身體實際上會……

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

你的血糖水平不會飆升得那麼高。

You might burn slightly more fat, 片語搭配

你可能會燃燒稍微多一點的脂肪，

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

在一天中較早進食，你可能會燃燒稍微多一點的卡路里。

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,

如果你在一天中較晚的時候吃下大部分食物，

your metabolism's actually slower later in the day.

你的新陳代謝實際上在一天較晚的時候會更慢。

So, for instance, 表達脈絡

所以，舉個例子，

if you ate the same,

如果你吃同樣的一碗……

I don't know, 語氣意圖

比如，

bowl of ice cream in the morning,

冰淇淋，分別在早上、

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會顯著飆升得更高。

We heard the noun metabolism.

我們聽到了名詞 metabolism（新陳代謝）。

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

這個詞指的是你體內的化學過程，

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

我們最常使用它來談論那些將食物轉化為能量的過程。

And we also heard the verb form metabolize.

我們還聽到了它的動詞形式 metabolize（代謝）。

Courtney talked about blood sugar levels spiking.

Courtney 談到了血糖水平的 spiking（飆升）。

A spike is a sharp pointed shape.

Spike（尖峰）是一個尖銳的形狀。

If you see it on a line graph,

如果你在折線圖上看到它，

it means that something has increased very rapidly.

它意味著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.

我們經常使用名詞 spike 來表示被測量的數值突然增加。

The verb spike means to suddenly increase.

動詞 spike 則意味著突然增加。

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

我們已經聽說在一天中較早進食對我們可能更健康。

Now, people often don't eat breakfast,

如今，人們經常不吃早餐，

sometimes because they don't have time,

有時是因為他們沒有時間，

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

有時是因為他們試圖省錢。

Let's hear again from Professor Alexandra Johnstone,

讓我們再次聽聽 Alexandra Johnstone 教授的說法，

talking to BBC World Service's The Food Chain.

也就是她在 BBC 世界頻道《The Food Chain》節目中的講話。

Now, breakfast skipping is interesting because

不吃早餐很有趣，因為

my own work would tend to suggest 語氣意圖

我自己的研究傾向於表明，

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

並且那種觀察性的大規模流行病學研究也會支持這一點……

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

規律吃早餐的人實際上更苗條，

and my own work would tend to suggest

並且我自己的研究也傾向於表明，

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

在早晨時段吃一天中最豐盛的一餐，

gives you a much better appetite control, 用詞

能讓你更好地控制食欲，

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

這意味著你在一天中晚些時候會更容易控制食物的攝入量。

Alexandra starts by mentioning breakfast skipping. 用詞

Alexandra 一開始提到了 breakfast skipping（不吃早餐）。

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

如果你 skip（跳過）某件事，就是你不去做它。

Bad students might skip lessons,

壞學生可能會 skip lessons（逃課），

they don't go to them.

他們不去上課。

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

如果你 skip a meal（跳過一餐），意思就是你不吃它。

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

我們還聽說規律吃早餐的人更 lean（苗條）。

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

如果一個人是 lean，那他們就不胖。

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

而人們可能更苗條的一個原因是他們有更好的 appetite control（食慾控制）。

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

食慾控制是指你的大腦決定你應該吃多少。

Thanks, Georgie.

謝謝你，Georgie。

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

現在，我覺得是時候聽聽你那個問題的答案了。

Yes, it is.

是的。

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

好的，我問的是：「根據最近的一項調查，英國最受歡迎的早餐是什麼？」

And I said, "Toast."

我回答了：「吐司。」

Which was the most popular in London,

它在倫敦確實是最受歡迎的，

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

但就全國總體而言，最受歡迎的是穀物麥片。

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

這是根據一家穀物麥片製造商的調查得出的。

So, I'm afraid you got it wrong. 語氣意圖

所以，恐怕你猜錯了。

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

好的，讓我們回顧一下我們學到的詞彙，

starting with pauper,

從 pauper 開始，

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

這是一個老派詞彙，用來形容極度貧窮的人。

When we're talking about data,

當我們談論數據時，

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 指的是體內的化學過程，

especially those which process food.

特別是處理食物的那些過程。

If you skip something,

如果你 skip 某件事，

you miss it,

你就錯過了它，

you don't do it.

也就是你沒做這件事。

If someone is lean,

如果某人很 lean，

then they are not fat.

那他們就不胖。

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

最後，appetite control 是指你的大腦決定你應該吃多少。

Once again, our Six Minutes are up, 慣用語

我們的六分鐘又一次到了，

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

但為什麼不去我們的網站 bbclearningenglish.com 試試本期節目的測驗和練習題呢。

See you again soon.

下次見。

Goodbye.

再見。

Bye.

拜拜。

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