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美国人很喜欢吃 apple pie。 Apple pie是一种用烤箱制作的甜点心，它的外面是一层面粉，里面是用苹果做的馅儿。中文有时把 apple pie翻成"苹果排"。美国人喜爱吃 apple pie 是他们刚从欧洲移居到美洲来以后就开始了。每个家庭主妇都经常做苹果排。



"So many Asian restaurants have opened up in Washington that a writer on a daily paper here jokes that dim sum, Japanese sushi and Vietnamese spring rolls have become as American as applie pie."

这句话的意思是："华盛顿开了那末多亚洲饭馆，一家报纸的记者开玩笑地说，广东点心、日本生鱼片加饭团和越南春卷都已经变成像苹果排一样的美国食品了。"



美国人喜爱球赛是有历史根源的，因为有些球类运动都是起源于美国。下面这个例子就说明了这一点：

"Football and baseball are as American as apple pie as they were invented by Americans and played and watched everywhere in this country. Many people would glue to their TV sets whenever there are major competitions."



美国人也很喜欢吃土豆，特别是刚从烤箱里拿出来的一个个热气腾腾的土豆。下面我们要介绍的一个俗语是: hot potato。大家都知道 hot 的意思是热或烫。 Potato就是土豆。热的土豆固然好吃，但是它会烫你的手，你会想法马上甩掉的。 Hot potato作为俗语，它的意思就是一个争论很激烈的问题，没有一个人愿意为它承担责任。例如：

"The question of whether to raise taxes to cut the budget deficit is a real hot potato for a lot of politicians."



下面这个例子是一位律师在给另一位律师提供建议：

"If I were you, I'd drop that client like a hot potato; he's always suing somebody for something, but he usually loses and he doesn't pay his lawyer's bills."