美語情景對話 第979期:Yummy Yams 美味的山藥

Todd: So Abidemi, you're from Nigeria, right?

託德：阿比德米，你來自尼日利亞，對吧？

Abidemi: Yes, I am, that's correct.

阿比德米：對，沒錯。

Todd: So, can you talk a little bit about food from your country?

託德：你能談談尼日利亞的美食嗎？

Abidemi: Yes, gladly. I love eating, so food is one of my favorite things to talk about. In Nigeria, we eat a lot of food that's made of potatoes or yam so one of my favorite foods from Nigeria is called Inyan. Inyan is pounded yam. And what we do is we boil yam in a pot and then we put it into like what we call a pounder. I don't know how you say in English and we use a mortar and a pounding stick. And we pound it for maybe 20/30 minutes, usually the women do this and it comes out really sticky. And we eat it with our hands and with a sauce, kind of like tomato sauce with a lot of meat or fish, depending on your region. And it's just really delicious. It's something we eat especially during festivals and like yeah, with lots of music, if you are happy, if you are eating, yeah, it's really good.

阿比德米：好，我很樂意。我喜歡美食，所以食物是我最喜歡談的話題之一。尼日利亞有很多食物是由土豆或山藥做成的，我最喜歡的尼日利亞美食是Inyan。這道菜要把山藥搗碎。我們先把山藥放到鍋裏煮，煮好後把山藥放到搗具裏。我不知道英語是不是這麼說，我們用臼和棍子把山藥搗碎。通常這個工作由女性來做，大概20到30分鐘以後，山藥就會變成粘稠狀。我們通常用手拿着搗好的山藥蘸醬吃，一般是番茄醬，再搭配肉和魚類食用，搭配取決於你所在地區的習慣。非常美味。我們一般在節日期間吃這道菜，周圍會放音樂，如果你在吃飯的時候感到開心，那非常好。

Todd: That sounds really good. So, you said though that it has sauce on it and you also eat it with your hands?

託德：聽起來很不錯。你說要蘸醬吃，而且是用手拿着吃？

Abidemi: Yes. Normally, we eat it with our hands so they put it in a plate, it's white in color and beside they'll put like a stew, it's tomato based with onions all mixed together, grinded together. And then they cook a fish or meat or even a mixture of both in the stew. So when you eat it, you're eating with your fingers and your, yeah, put it in your mouth, it's very savory, it's a very savory dish.

阿比德米：對。通常我們用手吃，搗好後的山藥是白色的，把它們放在盤子裏，然後搭配燉菜食用，燉菜就是把番茄和洋蔥磨碎混合在一起。然後再烹飪魚或肉，把它們也混合在燉菜裏。用手拿着放進嘴裏直接吃，這是一道非常美味的菜餚。

Todd: That sounds good. So, how long does it take to cook?

託德：聽起來不錯。那做這道菜大約需要多長時間？

Abidemi: Usually, I would say an hour to two hours because you have to boil, peel the yams, boil the yams and then pound the yams so all that process takes time. And then there's the sauce, the stew as well that has to be prepared, so it takes time.

阿比德米：一般需要一到兩個小時的時間，因爲要煮山藥、去皮，然後搗碎山藥，這些步驟需要時間。接下來還要準備醬汁和燉菜，所以比較費時間。

Todd: That sounds like a lot of energy.

託德：聽起來要耗費很多精力。

Abidemi: It is a lot of energy which is I think mainly why it's eaten during festivals or when people have a lot of time or people that are just at home, yeah, special occasions, that's when we have it.

阿比德米：的確會花費很多精力，所以在節日或是人們有很多時間或是人們賦閒在家時纔會做這道菜，當然在特殊場合也會準備這道菜。

Todd: So when you pound the yams, do you just do one yam at a time or are you doing many yams at once?

託德：在搗山藥時，是一次搗一個山藥，還是同時搗多個山藥？

Abidemi: You're doing many pieces of yams so the yams have been cut, after they've been peeled. They've been cut into smaller pieces and you put these into the mortar and then you're pounding away, yeah.

阿比德米：同時搗多個山藥，所以在去皮以後要把山藥切成塊兒。把山藥切成小塊兒以後，把它們放進臼裏，然後搗碎它們。

Todd: Oh, wow. So, and what foods does this go well with?

託德：哦，哇哦。那這些食物一般和什麼搭配着吃？

Abidemi: This is normally eaten by itself but when we have special occasions of course, we don't only have one dish. We have that, we also have rice that's made, we call one Jollof rice and it's made ... cooked in ... I would say it's similar to the Spanish pilaf. So it's tomato based as well and it comes out red, so you have that. We might have some what we call dodo which is fried plantains in English. So we have different dishes around that, they're centered around, yeah, we love eating in Nigeria, so yeah.

阿比德米：通常就這樣吃，不過如果是特殊場合，不可能只有這一道菜。我們通常要做辣椒燉肉飯，這種飯和西班牙的辣味菜肉飯很像。做這種飯也要用蕃茄，所以它的顏色是紅色的。我們還會做油炸大蕉。我們會準備很多道菜，搭配着食用，我們尼日利亞熱愛美食。

Todd: Sounds good.

託德：聽起來真不錯。

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1. be made of （由…）構成的；（由…）製成的；
例句：This armchair is made of bamboo.
這個扶手椅是用竹子做成的。
2. depend on 取決(於)；有賴(於)；
例句：Future growth, he argued, would depend on "how much private consumption can improve" .
他辯論道，將來的增長，將取決於“個人消費水平的提高程度”。
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同時身處兩地在自然法則上是不可能的。
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例句：The effect was similar to that of a mother singing to a baby.
這種效果跟母親給嬰兒唱歌類似。