雪莉吃不惯公司的工作餐，于是叫了好朋友简到外面的大排档吃中饭，两个人对于吃的观念好像很不一样，一起来看看吧。

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Jane: How do you like the food sold in this sidewalk snack booth?

Shirley: At least, it is better than my boxed lunch at work. I'm so fed up with the bland food. Thank you for having lunch with me!

Jane: Any time. But I don't mind eating boxed lunch. The food sanitation is really good too.

Shirley: It's hard to believe that you like it. You are so easy to be satisfied.

Jane: Hey, it's not that bad. The food is nutritious and it's really convenient. I don't want to spend too much time on eating stuff.

Shirley: Eating is important. You are what you eat. It's not only a daily routine.

Jane: Well, will you just go back to work after lunch?

Shirley: No. I'm going to pay the bill for the company's lunch.

Jane: But you didn't eat anything today.

Shirley: Well, the bill is paid by month. That's probably the only thing that I like about a take-out restaurant.

Jane: All right. I'm going to the McDonald's.

Shirley: For what? I thought you didn't like western food.

Jane: No, I never did. It's for my son. He loves it, and I made an agreement with him that he can eat it once a week.

Shirley: That's really smart. My son Daniel is the same with your son. I just don't get it, why all the kids prefer western food to traditional food.

Jane: Me, either. But, it's for sure that the children market is a really big one.

Shirley: That's for sure. It's always hard for the parents to say “no” to their children.

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简: 你觉得大排档里卖的东西好吃吗？

雪莉: 至少，它比我们公司吃的盒饭好吃。我受够了那些乏味的食物了。谢谢你陪我吃午饭。

简: 我很乐意啊。但是我倒是不介意吃盒饭。那些食物的卫生也很不错。

雪莉: 真难以相信你会喜欢。你也太容易满足了吧。

简: 嗨，没有那么差吧。那些食物营养而且非常方便。我可不想花太多的时间在吃饭上。

雪莉: 吃是很重要的。吃什么样的东西代表你是什么样的人。它可不只是每天的例行公事哦。

简: 还有，你吃完饭之后会直接回去工作吗？

雪莉: 不，我得去把公司的工作午餐的账结了。

简: 但是你今天什么都没有吃啊。

雪莉: 这个啊，账单是月结的。这可能是外卖让我喜欢的唯一一点。

简: 好吧。我要去一趟麦当劳。

雪莉: 去做什么？我原以为你不喜欢西餐的。

简: 没错，我从来都不喜欢。是给我儿子的。他最喜欢了。我跟他约定每周只吃一次。

雪莉: 这是个聪明的做法。我儿子丹尼尔也和你儿子一样。我就是不明白，为什么孩子们都喜欢西方的食品而不喜欢传统食物呢？

简: 我也不明白。可是，可以确定的是儿童市场是一个非常大的市场。

雪莉: 肯定的啊。让父母对他们的孩子说“不”总是很难的。

经典背诵 Recitation
Shirley: Today I had lunch with my friend Jane at a sidewalk snack booth. The food there was far better than my working lunch which I never liked. But Jane was fine with working lunch thinking it was nutritious and convenient, and she didn't want to spend too much time on it. I couldn't agree with her on this. In my eyes, eating was important because I believed you were what you ate.

生词小结
booth n. 货摊

boxed adj. 盒装的

fed up 厌倦

bland adj. 淡而无味的

sanitation n. 卫生

nutritious adj. 营养的

routine n. 常规

agreement n. 约定

Functional structure 功能性句型扩展
表示感谢的句型

请朗读以下句型，家长和孩子交替进行。

Thank you. / Thanks. 谢谢您。

Thank you for doing / sth. 谢谢你……

I (really) appreciate it that… 很高兴……

It's…( 形容词 ) of you. 你……真是太……了。

That's very… ( 形容词 ) of you. 你太……了。

My pleasure. 不客气。

You're welcome. 不客气。