【在生活中學習語言】Helping to Place an Order協助下訂單
【在生活中學習語言】Helping to Place an Order協助下訂單
2008年07月26日蘋果日報
對話
Customer：May I ask, is this your newest cake catalogue？顧客：請問一下，這是你們最新的蛋糕目錄嗎？
Clerk：Yes, it is. Are you interested in ordering something？
店員：對，這是新的。您想訂購什麼嗎？
Customer：I’d like to order a Christmas cake. It will need to be big enough for ten people.
顧客：我想訂購一個耶誕節蛋糕。要夠10個人吃。
Clerk：As you can see, the serving sizes are listed in the catalogue.
店員：就如您所見，目錄裡詳列了每一種蛋糕的尺寸。
Customer：I’ll take this one.
顧客：我要買這一個。
「句」細靡遺
◎...the serving sizes are listed in the catalogue.
=...the serving sizes are shown in the catalogue.
=...the serving sizes are given in the catalogue.
……目錄裡詳列每一種蛋糕尺寸。
向顧客說明目錄中的蛋糕尺寸或適合幾人份食用的說法尚有下列：
The number of servings in each/the cake is listed here.
每個蛋糕適合幾人食用的人數就列在這裡。
The servings per cake are listed in the catalogue.
每個蛋糕適合幾人食用都列在目錄裡。
◎serving n.（食物、飲料等供一人食用的）一份
例：There are three servings in this bag of dumplings.（這包水餃有3人份。）
字字珠璣
◎cake n.蛋糕
例：Can I have another piece of cake, please？（請問我可以再吃一塊蛋糕嗎？）
◎Catalogue n.目錄
例：May I take a look at your catalogue？I’m interested in buying some brownies.（我可以看一下你們的目錄嗎？我想要買一些布朗尼蛋糕。）
◎be interested in... 有興趣做……；對……有興趣
例：Frank is interested in flower arrangement.（法蘭克對插花很有興趣。）
常春藤解析英語
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