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Words about fruits (1)
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E: Hi, welcome to "Let's talk". Well, I think you can see from what's in front of us, what are our topic of conversation is today we have some idioms to share with you about "fruit". And I know some of these fruits you definitely know their names because I think every even kindergartner in China knows apples and oranges.
R: "Apples and oranges". There's an expression for apples and oranges. And a good example would be when I was young, my brother loved to play basketball and I loved to dance ballet, and my mother got so tired of us. Arguing "Dancing ballet is harder." "No, playing basketball is more difficult." It was a stupid argument. My mother would say "That's like comparing apples and oranges. You can't compare them. They don't to compare. They're completely different fruit." So that's your first idioms about fruit. But you know apples and oranges, some of these fruits you may not know them in English.
E: Now we have here two things, Maybe you'd call them both oranges, and you could call them "oranges" . But we call this "an orange". It's kind of hard to take the peel away. It's difficult to peel an orange. But this is "a tangerine", and when you take the peel from a tangerine, it comes away very easily.
R: The tangerine has a couple of other names too. In England, they called it a "mandarin" and in France they called it "clementine". So you might hear those words used in English as well. They mean the same thing. These were easy good snack fruit. Also this orange has a nickname.
E: Oh, Yes. You see it has a 肚脐. 肚脐 in English is "navel". Your navel. And so this is called "a navel" or "a bellybutton". It's actually called "a bellybutton" or "a navel". "Navel" is more scientific.
R: I've never ate so much watermelon before in my life as I have living in China. Everyone in China loves watermelon, and you should know that that's a melon group. There are other melons in English cantaloupe, honeydew. I don't have more to show you but they are called melons.
E: And I know in Chinese you say " 冬瓜，西瓜， 大傻瓜". If you call someone "a watermelon head". In English, "He's a watermelon head." It's the same as calling someone a"大傻瓜".
R: And something surprised me too. When we buy grapes we call grapes just "green grapes" or "red grapes" and there are also "purple grapes", darker ones. I couldn't buy them this morning. But they have two names in Chinese, they're not the same.
E: Yeah. But we called these all "grapes". They are all "grapes", 提子and 葡萄. They are all "grapes", but one is red, or green, or purple.
R: You know my son asked me if the fruits are seedless, because now you can buy seedless grapes which are good to eat easy no seeds. He said if the fruit are seedless, how can they make more fruit? No seeds.
E: They do it by cutting the branches off, then sticking them on a new...
R: And making more. That is a good question. Where is the egg without the chicken? The fruit without the seeds.
E: Here is the fine fruit. This is called the plum, and in Chinese you think of "plum" as "梅" or "梅子". But this is a very big one. In the US we don't have the small ones like you have in China we only have this kind of plum. And it's really considered a very good fruit, actually it's a very very good for you, very healthy. And we use this in an idiom too.
R: Yeah. You could say you've gotten a new job that everyone want it. It was terrific and you're thrilled, and so I might say to you "You just got a plum job."
E: Yeah. Or "a plum of a job". That means you've got the best.
R: That's similar actually to "It's the berries." "It's the berries." Having something that's the berries or even "He is the berries." That means it's really good or really sweet.
E: Right. And "berry" is a word we use for a lot of different fruits. We have "strawberry" "raspberry" "blueberry" "blackberry".
R: That's right. We couldn't find them all the way, we have some cans. And can berries you can cook with. Here's cherries, and blackberries, and blueberries. Here are strawberries.
E: You know this is such a normal fruit. Everyone knows banana. But if somebody said to you "Oh, she's going bananas." Would you know what that meant? "She's going bananas." it means she's going crazy or wild for something. Maybe they like it a lot. So for example, if you really like to eat strawberries you could say "She really went bananas for those strawberries."
R: All these idioms are a little fruity and that means a little crazy, but they are fun. So I hope you can use them. Have fun with them.
E: We'll teach you more next time.
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关于水果的词语（1）
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你好 欢迎收看“你说我说”
从我们面前摆的东西
你应该能猜出今天的话题
我们要讲讲关于水果的词语
我想你们一定知道一些水果的英文说法
即使是中国幼儿园的小朋友
也知道 apple 和 orange
这里有个关于苹果和橙子的表达
在我小时侯 我兄弟喜欢打篮球
而我喜欢跳芭蕾舞
我母亲很烦心 因为我们总是争论
跳芭蕾舞和打篮球哪个更难
这种争论很愚蠢
我母亲说 这就像比较苹果和橙子
你没法比较它们
它们是完全不同的水果
这是关于水果的第一个短语
你们都知道apple 和 orange
但有些水果的英文名称
你们可能就不知道了
这里的两个水果
也许你们都叫它们orange
这样是可以的
但我们称这个为orange（橙子）
它的皮很难剥
to peel an orange（剥橙子皮）
而这个叫tangerine（橘子）
它的皮是很好剥的
tangerine（橘子）也有不同的叫法
在英国叫 mandarin （orange）
在法国叫 clementine
在英语里你们也可能听到这些叫法
所指的都是同一种水果
它是种方便又好吃的水果
这种orange（橙子）也有别名
你看 它有个“肚脐”
肚脐在英语里叫 navel
所以它的别名也叫 navel
或叫 bellybutton（肚脐）
navel和bellybutton都指肚脐
navel是学名
在来中国前 我不常吃西瓜
中国人很爱吃西瓜
实际上 melon是指一类水果
有多种melon 比如 cantaloupe（香瓜）
honeydew (melon) 白兰瓜
今天不能都拿来 它们都称作melon
中国人会说 冬瓜 西瓜 大傻瓜
如果你称某人watermelon head
He is a watermelon head.
就是说 他是个大傻瓜
还有令我惊奇的
我去买 grape （葡萄）
比如 绿葡萄 红葡萄
还有深颜色的紫葡萄
今天没买到紫葡萄
中文里好像有两种称呼
但在英文里都叫grape
对 它们都是grape
不论是提子还是葡萄
在英文里都是grape
只是颜色不同罢了
我儿子问我
如果水果是无籽的（seedless）
现在有无籽的（seedless）葡萄
吃起来更方便
他问我如果它们是无籽的（seedless）
那如何繁殖呢
我想人们是把水果的枝条剪下来
在别处繁殖
但这是个好问题
没有小鸡 鸡蛋从哪里来呢
这是个有趣的水果
叫做plum（李子 梅子）
但它是大号的梅子
在美国没有那种小的梅子
只有这种
这是很好的水果
对健康很有好处
它也被用到成语里
是的 比如 你得到了一份
人人都想要的好工作
你很激动 我可能对你说
You just got a plum job.
或者说 a plum of a job
意思是你得到了最好的
与此相似的用法是
It's the berries（浆果）.
称得到的东西是berries
或某人是 berries
是说那件东西或那个人很好
berry（浆果）也包含很多种类
比如 strawberry（草莓）
raspberry（山莓）
blueberry（蓝莓） blackberry（黑莓）
是的 我们找到一些浆果罐头
这是 cherry（樱桃）
这是blackberry（黑莓）
这是blueberry（蓝莓）
而这是strawberry（草莓）
这是很普通的水果
人人都知道banana（香蕉）
但如果有人说
She is going bananas.
知道是什么意思吗
She is going bananas.
是指 她的行为很疯狂
也许是疯狂的喜欢什么东西
比如 她特别喜欢草莓
你可以说
She went bananas for those strawberries.
这些用法都有点fruity（ 疯狂的 怪诞的）
但都很有趣
希望你们喜欢
我们下次接着讲
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