2020-02-05
8 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome to my podcast, where I try to help you with your understanding of the english language, that you can get a more enjoyable experience when you're communicating with people either on holidays, on business, or wherever it may be.
So, what have I got for you today?
Well, in this podcast, we're going to look at some verbs, and in particular, we're going to take a look at those verbs connected with eating.
Okay?
We all love to eat.
We all love eating food, tasting food.
So I'm going to give you some verbs that we can use connected with that, okay?
So the first one.
To bite.
To bite is to take a piece of food or to seize the food with your teeth or your jaws and then eat it, okay?
So to bite, to seize or to take some piece of food, meat or otherwise, between your teeth or between your jaws and then eat, to savour.
To savor is to enjoy the taste.
Or the smell of something.
So you take a first bite of that beautifully cooked duck and you savor it in your mouth for seconds before you swallow, okay?
Or you smell, sniff the fragrance of the food sizzling in the pan or the spices that have been used, or even the aroma of the wine that you've just opened to savor, meaning to enjoy.
As I said, you enjoy the taste just before you swallow.
So that's the next verb, to swallow.
And to swallow is when you have the food, you've tasted it, you have chewed it several times, as we are advised by doctors, six or seven times.
So we take the food, chew it, and then we swallow it, and it goes into our stomach, through our mouth and down our throat.