美語情景對話 第386期:Food 食物

I was browsing through a bookshop today and I picked up a book on food, which is quite usual for me cause I love food, em, but this book was a bit different, em, it tried to make the connection between the kind of food you eat and how it makes you feel so, for example, sometimes if I'm, if I'm a bit sad, we'll say, I think to myself, oh, I'd love some chocolate and that will make me feel better, and sometimes it does, or it feels like it does anyway. I'm not sure if that really works, but the author of this book seemed to think that there's a definite link between, what you, you know, what you eat and how you feel, or how it makes you feel. She talks about things like, em, yeah, things like chocolate and other sweet things. She says that it releases endorphins, so that, you know endorphins are chemicals, they kind of, they make you feel good, I think is the idea. They help you deal with stress as well as she says, so yeah, that seems to, that seems to work, I think. One of my friends told me recently that when she feels a bit, a bit sluggish as if she doesn't have much energy, she'll go to a restaurant or go home and cook some meat cause she feels that that gives her, gives her energy, so I was interested to read today that this author, she mentions how sometimes the body will feel a need to, I don't know, to be more sharp, or to have energy and that sometimes that means that you need protein and protein obviously would comes from meat. It seems to work for my friend anyway, but I haven't tried it myself anyway.

我今天去書店逛了逛，買了一本有關食物的書，這對我來說非常平常，因爲我熱愛食物，不過這本書有點不同，這本書試圖將你吃的食物和它們給你的感覺聯繫起來，比如，有時我有點悲傷，我會對自己說，我想吃點巧克力。這會讓我感覺好些，有時就會這樣，就會有這樣的感覺。我不太確定這是否會起作用，不過這本書的作者認爲你吃的食物和你的感覺之間一定有某種聯繫。她談到了巧克力和其他的甜食。她說甜食會釋放腦啡肽，腦啡肽是一種生理反應，會讓你感覺舒服，我想是想法的改變。它們會幫助你緩解壓力，同時作者表示，那很有效果。我的一個朋友最近告訴我，她覺得低落或是沒有什麼精力的時候，她就會去餐廳或是回家做飯吃，因爲她覺得那樣能給她能量，所以我今天很想讀讀這本書，作者在書中提到，有時身體會需要更多靈感，會需要更多能量，這意味着你需要蛋白質，而蛋白質來自肉類。看起來這對我的朋友很有效，不過我自己還沒有嘗試過。

重點講解：
1. browse through
瀏覽；翻閱；
eg. I like to browse through their books.
我喜歡瀏覽他們的書籍。
eg. Readers could browse through portions and buy digital copies.
讀者們可以瀏覽這些書的部分內容或者購買電子版。
2. pick up
獲得；
eg. If I have time. I'll swing by the store and pick up some food.
如果我有空，我就會經過商店買些食物。
eg. You should be able to pick up a few good bargains.
你應該能夠買到幾件不錯的便宜貨。
3. think to oneself
心中想；自己盤算；
eg. I see skies of blue clouds of white. The bright blessed days the dark sacred nights. And I think to myself what a wonderful world.
我看見藍天白雲，白天的光明驅散夜的黑暗，我對自己說這是一個多麼美好的世界。
eg. And I think to myself, it's just eighth grade.
我想，這只是八年級。
4. deal with
剋制（不快情感）；冷靜面對（感情上困難的局面）；
eg. She saw a psychiatrist who used hypnotism to help her deal with her fear.
她去看了一位用催眠術幫她克服恐懼感的精神科醫生。
eg. Meditationw helps me deal with stress.
瞑思能夠幫助我克服壓力。
5. as if
好像；彷彿；
eg. Sometimes it feels as if circumstances are conspiring against us, and we find ourselves riveted in place.
有時境況彷彿與我們處處作對，我們發現自己寸步難行。
eg. He looked as if he knew the truth.
他看上去好像知道事實真相。