Hello, Andrew here from BBC Learning(学习) English. Just so you know, this programme is from the BBC Learning English Archive(档案馆) and was first broadcast(广播) in December 2006 on our website. And now, on with the show. Hello, I'm Jacqui Dalton. Welcome to the programme. Today we're going to take a look(看) at food and the language you might(可以〔用于礼貌地提出建议〕) use to describe food.
Whether( 是否) it's at someone's house after you've just had a lovely(可爱的) meal and you want to compliment(恭维) them, or if you want to tell someone about a dish that you've just had and describe what it's like. And the best possible place to do all this is at London's Good(好处) Food Show, which is held(拿住) every year. And we're going to wander(漫游) around and talk to some people here and ask them to describe the kind of food that they're eating. Now I'm at a food stand( 站) belonging(属于) to one of Britain's most famous chefs( 厨师), Gordon Ramsay. Diane, a visitor here, has been eating some of his duck. She seems( 似乎) to like it.
What are some of the words that come up which show that she likes it? My name's Diane and I've been eating a confit of duck with salad. And what's it like? It's very tasty( 美味的), sweet(甜的), but gamey. It was nice, it was really good. It's a fairly(相当) light meal, but very, very tasty, and more-ish.
Well, lots of expressions(表现) there which show Diane liked her food. They included simple( 简单的) words like nice and good, which are all fine to describe food that you like. The first one she used was very tasty. Tasty. This means it's nice, it tastes(味觉) good. It's a fairly informal(非正式的) word, but a nice way to say that you enjoyed food.
Very, very tasty, more-ish. What was the other word at the end there? More-ish. It's the kind of food that makes you want to have more.
