你知道可可不只是巧克力?

Cacao Is More Than Just Chocolate
可可不只是巧克力

英文新聞

Oded Brenner has a great job. He makes chocolate.

In the 1990s, he co-created an international chocolate company called Max Brenner Chocolate. His businesses included a 650-square-meter store on Broadway in New York City.

Then in 2012, Brenner left that business. A few years later, he began exploring a different side of chocolate. In 2015, during a trip to Jamaica, he developed a love and excitement for the fruit that produces chocolate: cacao.

The Jamaican people taught him a lot about cacao — namely, it is more than just chocolate. Brenner saw Jamaican people making juice, liquor, and flour from the cacao fruit. And they used the whole fruit – not just the beans.

The fruit is a little sweet and a little sour. The cacao water is described as refreshing. The seed inside is the cacao bean. This is the part that is processed to make chocolate.

Cacao is high in antioxidants. And the water is full of natural chemicals called electrolytes. These are substances needed in the body’s fluids to control important processes including how your body uses vitamins and minerals and removes waste.

In addition to health, Brenner said that the cacao he uses for his products is farmed in a way that is not harmful to the environment. And it is also fair to the farmers.

中文翻譯

歐德布萊納有個很棒的工作。他製作巧克力。

九零年代的時候,他共同創辦了一家跨國巧克力公司叫做 Max Brenner Chocolate。他的事業包括在紐約百老匯的一家 650 平方公尺的店。

然後在 2012 年的時候,布萊納離開了公司。幾年後,他開始探索巧克力不同的面向。在 2015 年,一趟雅買加的旅程途中,他開始對於製作巧克力的果實:可可,產生了愛與熱情。

雅買加人教他許多可可有關的知識,也就是說,不只是巧克力。布萊納看見雅買加人用可可果實製作果汁、利口酒和麵粉。而且他們使用整顆果實,不只是可可豆。

果實有一點甜也有一點酸。可可水被形容為涼爽的。裡頭的種子是可可豆。這是被加工來做巧克力的部分。

可可富含大量抗氧化劑。可可水也充滿叫做電解質的天然化學物質。這些是人體液中用來控制重要程序的必需物質,包括身體如何使用維生素和礦物質並去除廢物。

除了健康以外,布萊納說他使用來做成巧克力的可可是以對環境無害的方式耕種的,且也對農夫們公平的。

單字學習

英文單字詞性中文
cacao (n.) 可可
liquor (n.) 利口酒
flour (n.) 麵粉
sour(adj.) 酸的
refreshing (adj.) 涼爽的;清新的
bean (n.) 豆子
processed (adj.) 加工的
antioxidant (n.) 抗氧化劑
chemical (n.) 化學物質;化學製品
electrolytes (n.) 電解質
substance (n.) 物質
fluid (n.) 液體
mineral (n.) 礦物質
waste (n.) 廢物;廢料

片語及其他用語

英文中文
Namely 也就是說
be described as 被形容為……
be high in 富含……
be harmful to 對……有害

重點解析

  1. namely 是一個副詞,跟 that is to say 意思差不多。通常插入在句中做為連貫句意。
  2. be high in 可以等同於 be rich in,都是富含什麼東西,或是某營養素含量高。例如:Citruses are high/rich in vitamins.
  3. be harmful to 對……有害,也可以用 do harm to… 來表示;若想說對……無害,就說 do no harm to…。
  4. antioxidant 這個詞的字首 “anti”「反抗;對抗」的意思,看到這個字口開頭通常是「反……」的意思,例如:antibiotics 抗生素 / antisocial 反社會的 / anti-aging 抗老的 / antivirus 防毒的

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