EP 0069Daily Life

How Would You Like Your Eggs?

A

Wow, you’re up early today! What’s for breakfast?

B

Well, I felt like baking, so I made some muffins.

A

Smells good! I’ll make some coffee. Do you want me to make you some eggs? ’

B

Sure, I ll take mine, sunny side up.

A

Eww, I don’t know how you can eat your eggs like that! Ever since I was small, I’ve had eggs and soldiers.

B

You know, my dad had scrambled eggs eggs every morning for twenty years. It drove my mom crazy!

A

You know what really drives me crazy? When I ask for soft boiled eggs, and they overcook them, so they come out hard boiled! How can you dip your toast into a hard boiled egg?

B

You’re so picky sometimes.

A

Here you go, honey, fried eggs.

B

Dammit! I asked for sunny side up! How many times do I have to tell you.

核心词汇

muffincommon noun, plural

a small break or cake people usually eat for breakfast

sunnyside upphrase

with egg fried on only one side

eggs and soldiersphrase

soft-boiled eggs with strips of buttered toast on it which people usually eat for breakfast

scrambledcommon

a way of cooking eggs

eggsnoun, nonvariable

by mixing them in a pan

soft boiled eggphrase

eggs cooked in the shell so the yellow part is still soft and wet

hard boiled eggphrase

egg cooked in the shell until the inside becomes solid

pickyAdjective

too careful at selecting things and usually hard to please

eggcommon noun, plural

the egg of a bird (especially a chicken or a duck) people usually eat as food

拓展词汇

hencommon noun, singular

female chicken

overeasyAdjective common noun, singular

an egg friend on both sides; cooked so the yolk is still soft eggs mixed, then cooked, and then folded in half;

yolkcommon noun, singular

the yellow part of the egg

egg whitecommon noun, singular

the white part of the egg

frying pancommon noun, singular

a large, flat pot used for cooking eggs and other things