难熬的“微波炉时间”等

泳清 肖燕玲

难熬的“微波炉时间”

你有没有觉得在微波炉里热东西时时间过得特别慢？明明选择了30秒，可怎么要等那么久呢？Well， you are not alone. 这个问题全世界的人都遇到过。所以，才会有人发明了一个新词microwave minute。

Microwave minute describes the situation when time slows down while waiting for your food to heat in the microwave. Known side effects are increased hunger， slowing of all the clocks in your house and walking around aimlessly trying to kill time.

微波炉时间（microwave minute）指食物在微波炉中加热时，感觉等待的时间过得很慢的状态。微波炉时间带来的比较明显的副作用有：饥饿感增强、家里所有的时钟都变慢，以及漫无目的地走来走去消磨时间。

The microwave minute has the ability to slow time， turning one minute into what feels like an hour.

微波炉时间能够让时间慢下来，感觉能把一分钟变得好像一小时那么长。

Cake building

如果这是一个蛋糕建筑，你会吃掉它吗？

Look at the picture. David is an artist （艺术家） in England. He likes making things. Look！ He makes this building with cakes， sandwiches and some coffee cups. Why does he make the mini building？ Because his coffee bar called （叫做） EAT will be open. He make the mini building for it.

Tree buggers fight for Guinness World Record

所谓的尼泊尔人拥抱树木创吉尼斯世界纪录究竟是什么？

People hug trees to set a Guinness World Record for the most number of people hugging trees for two minutes in Nepal. A total of 879 people took part in the event， which was held on World Environment Day to spread the message of saving the environment.

（肖燕玲）

How do you make a really good portion of fried fish

炸鱼和薯条（fish and chips）是一道英国国菜，英国人对fish and chips 真是情有独钟，全英国有一万零五百多家鱼条店，每年要吃掉三亿份炸鱼和薯条。在烹制炸鱼和薯条时，最关键的是面糊（the batter）的制作。

Wed use plain flour， a little bit of yeast. And then we use salt， and sugar —— we keep that separate to the yeast. Bit of cider vinegar， vodka and tonic water in a batter. Thats vodka going in there， and this is tonic water， when its mixed up. So youve got the sugar in there. And you need it somewhere warm that nicely froths it up and then weve got in here， leave that for about 45 minutes， and we end up with our batter. Smell that， it smells like bread.