Preserved eggs generally take about two months to create, using baking soda, salt, and quicklime. 通常,皮蛋的腌制時間約兩個月,會加入小蘇打、鹽、石灰等原料。

美食類英語詞匯:preserved egg皮蛋

Factories in Nanchang county in Jiangxi were the main source of “the toxic preserved eggs incident” and 30 companies have been closed by authorities since the discovery. Other factories are still undergoing investigation.

此次曝光的“有毒皮蛋”主要來源于江西南昌的一些生產企業,30余家皮蛋加工廠已被勒令停產,其余工廠也正在接受調查。

Preserved eggs generally take about two months to create, using baking soda, salt, and quicklime.

通常,皮蛋的腌制時間約兩個月,會加入小蘇打、鹽、石灰等原料。

The plants were guilty of adding industrial copper sulphate to the eggs to speed up the production schedule, halving the time to a month.

但是江西南昌的這些皮蛋工廠違法使用工業硫酸銅腌制皮蛋,使得皮蛋的制作周期縮短至一個月左右。

【單詞講解】

文中“preserved egg”即是皮蛋的意思,也可以表達為“preserved duck egg”, 或者“thousand-year egg”。

其中preserved可譯為“腌制的”,如preserved food (腌制食品),類似的表達還有smoked (煙熏的),salted (鹽腌的),canned (罐裝的)等。

文中的“copper sulphate”譯為硫酸銅,這些企業采用的是工業級別的原料,根本無法用于食品生產。

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