纪录片《饮食变迁》 第8期:食物的创新性

If one has a family sitting down,

如果家中有人坐在桌旁

the housewife serves them a meal,

主妇为他们做饭

she is obviously concerned and

很显然 她很关心和在意

worried if two or three around the table leave.

别人对她的食物满意与否

Types of food served.

各类食物需求

It's broken down as follows.

如下依次排列

Cereals...

谷类...

As new production methods

随着新生产方法

brought down the price of food,

降低了食物的价格

the possibilities for innovation appeared to be endless.

创新的可能性似乎是无穷的

And there's certainly a convenience benefit there,

而且如果在技术上能实现的话

if it could be done technically¹,

这必定能提供便利

to have a tray with bacon and egg and fried bread

一个盘子装上咸肉 鸡蛋和烤面包

and grilled² sausage and tomatoes and so on that you

还有烤香肠 番茄等等

simply slip into the oven while you nip upstairs

当你在楼上小酌或为孩子上学做准备时只需

and get the kids ready for school and when you come down...

简单的放入烤炉 下楼时就能...

It's not been tried.

还没有人做过

And if one had a deep-frozen egg in some sort of foil dish

如果可以将装有深度冷冻鸡蛋的容器

that one actually took and dropped into a pan of boiling water...

放入一个沸水锅里面...

One might recreate the egg all over again.

那可能得重新创造一种鸡蛋

It's an egg shape. It has a shell of some sort.

它有鸡蛋的外形 有某类外壳

You would boil it, I guess. You know?

或许你能煮熟它

And I don't know what it contains,

我不知道里面的组成

but it could be kind of solid egg

可能是一种蛋状的固体

and bacon in an egg shape, or solid sausage and tomato.

鸡蛋和咸肉 或者固体的香肠和番茄

But whatever it is, this is

但不管是什么

concentrated high-protein, and it is the new egg.

它富含高蛋白 这是全新意义上的鸡蛋

1 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

2 grilled   

adj. 烤的, 炙过的, 有格子的 动词grill的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• He was grilled for two hours before the police let him go. 他被严厉盘查了两个小时后，警察才放他走。
• He was grilled until he confessed. 他被严加拷问，直到他承认为止。