时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2006年


英语课

We are very happy.

...It's very good, thank you very much...

Call him crazy, a Chinese villager , left school at 12, running a Tex-Mex restaurant? 26 year old Peter Luo has banked his future on selling burritos to Beijing. Yes, you can certainly call him crazy.

Peter Luo: My financing education is zero, I only know how to count it zero to ten.

But don't laugh too soon, this culinary quirk 1, a Tex-Mex Chinese is catching 2 on.

We're thoroughly 3 amazed by (ur) the fact that he...um,he, stopped his education at the age of 12 and he's been hugely successful like this at the...at 23 he said now, so we're in awe 4 of him."

"...we have some similarities..."

These American MBA students are studying Peter Luo as a real-life textbook case of making it in the new China. Little education and younger than most of the students themselves, Peter is putting into practice what they are still learning about.

Our group has come to China to try to understand how do things work, how does business work?

So whatever you do...you pay more attention...",

Peter has a simple lesson for them, a motivation that is driving a new generation of Chinese entrepreneurs.

I am so afraid ( of ) getting poor...

Peter Luo knows all about being poor, he comes from a small village in southwest China, his family are farmers. But Peter's life changed when he met a woman he now calls "his American mother".

Meredith Dunton from Texas, (地名) came to China to teach Engilsh, ran an American food restaurant in Beijing. Peter worked as a cook, but Merry Dove saw much more in him. She sent him to culinary school, taught him the tricks of Texas cooking. With her guidance and finacial backing, from that, has come all of this.

I can't pay anything back, but at least I can ,you know, really respect in what she (has) done on me, so I want to call her 'mother'.

One restaurant is now 3, Peter dreams of opening a chain like KFC or Mcdonald's ,a testament 5 to Peter's hard work, but also to a changing China.

China is getting more open, Chinese people are getting changed, developed, and their economy getting,er, changed too, so people want(s) to try special things,new things.

And now, for the taste test.

Best meal we've had in China..."

One of the benefits of doing a story on someone who owns a restaurant is getting to taste the finished products. So,here it goes! It tastes like that, the future is certainly as big as Texas.

Stan Grant, CNN, Beijing.



1 quirk
n.奇事,巧合;古怪的举动
  • He had a strange quirk of addressing his wife as Mrs Smith.他很怪,把自己的妻子称作史密斯夫人。
  • The most annoying quirk of his is wearing a cap all the time.他最令人感到厌恶的怪癖就是无论何时都戴著帽子。
2 catching
adj.易传染的,有魅力的,迷人的,接住
  • There are those who think eczema is catching.有人就是认为湿疹会传染。
  • Enthusiasm is very catching.热情非常富有感染力。
3 thoroughly
adv.完全地,彻底地,十足地
  • The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
  • The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。
4 awe
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
5 testament
n.遗嘱;证明
  • This is his last will and testament.这是他的遗愿和遗嘱。
  • It is a testament to the power of political mythology.这说明,编造政治神话可以产生多大的威力。
学英语单词
agenda-setting hypothesis
air bed
alkalamides
analogical, analogic
auxiliary feed pump
axial boss
backlog depreciation
balance guard
balanced fund
bell hydrogen resistance furnace
blazer stripes
bureaucratizes
carotid arch
case with nail holes
Cavalier poet
celestifying
Charles' Wain
chuff brick
clip indicator
coached
colored eggs
combination lever bushing
correlation level
counterclaimant
cryptotympana holsti
deflocculant
desktop window
detonation spraying
digital data-processing equipment (ddpe)
direct plunger elevator
dog's breakfasts
external commercial relations
febc
fecal canister
ferractor
flirt with sth
flush quenching
Grinton
Gunnedah
hammer hand drill
hardwall cyc
height driver
hot brine
hyperthermal bath
inception
incisal rest
input limiter
interference detector
Itanhém, R.
just a minute
kald
La Primavera
large-for-date
larroux
letter
low cut filter
LPSW (load program status word)
medullary portion
membranous septum of ventricles
more of less clause
multihyphenated
net stock of capital
Ochromonadidae
Oloiguran
part
peasant costume
permanent magnet focusing
Physalis ixocarpa
Piper terminaliflorum
pivoting colter
pornifies
pre-enzyme
preferentialist
Pseudomonas ureae
pussywhip
Ranger Bank
right backs
Romeville
rosish
Run, Pulau
scatter buffets
secure data transmission
single band system
smooth jazz
sorting of operation
spiral of archimedes
tamminen
Thursday
Tolkien, John Ronald Reuel
top-loaded monopole
towny
trixeny
U.S.gal.
uncurbed
under-running
upclocked
vaccenyl
vocational culture
watercarrier
weight barometer
whole-body vibration
wine label