[英文筆記] bbc 6 minute - Sausage Wars

bbc 6 minute - Sausage Wars  2012/2/15 with S@全家

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# Vocabulary - refer to Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
humble

1 not considering yourself or your ideas to be as important as other people's[≠ proud; ↪ humility]:

a modest and humble man

Klobasa  波蘭香腸 smoked sausage, served whole

saus‧age [uncountable and countable]

1 a small tube of skin filled with a mixture of meat, spices etc, eaten hot or cold after it has been cooked:

pork sausages

gentrification [uncountable]

a gradual process in which an area in bad condition where poor people live is changed by people with more money coming to live there and improving it

—gentrify verb [transitive usually passive]

guilt [uncountable]

1 a strong feeling of shame and sadness because you know that you have done something wrong

He used to buy them expensive presents, out of guilt.

gas‧tric [only before noun] technical

1 relating to your stomach:

gastric ulcers

fore‧bod‧ing [uncountable]

a strong feeling that something bad is going to happen soon:

She waited for news with a grim sense of foreboding.

hung‧o‧ver

if someone is hungover, they feel ill because they drank too much alcohol the previous evening

make‧o‧ver [countable]

1 if you give someone a makeover, you make them look more attractive by giving them new clothes, a new hair style etc

her‧i‧tage [singular, uncountable]

the traditional beliefs, values, customs etc of a family, country, or society[↪ inheritance]:

cru‧cial

something that is crucial is extremely important, because everything else depends on it

cut the mustard

informal to be good enough to do something:

Other magazines have tried to copy ZAPP, but have never quite cut the mustard.

crois‧sant [countable]

a piece of bread, shaped in a curve and usually eaten for breakfast

pe‧des‧tri‧a‧nize also pedestrianise British English [transitive]

to change a street or shopping area so that cars and trucks are no longer allowed

thor‧ough‧fare   Related topics: Roads

1 [countable] the main road through a place such as a city or village:

The motel was off the main thoroughfare.

me‧trop‧o‧lis [countable]

a very large city that is the most important city in a country or area:

The city has become a huge, bustling metropolis.

left‧o‧ver [only before noun]

remaining after all the rest has been used, taken, or eaten:

leftover vegetables

scav‧enge [intransitive and transitive]

2 if someone scavenges, they search through things that other people do not want for food or useful objects:

There are people who live in the dump and scavenge garbage for a living.

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pave‧ment

1 [countable] British English a hard level surface or path at the side of a road for people to walk on [= sidewalk American English]

pro‧pri‧e‧ta‧ry formal

1 especially British English a proprietary product is one that is sold under atrade name [≠ generic]:

a proprietary brand of insecticide

proprietary software products