英语四级晨读100篇精华版005：The Cafeteria 食堂的餐盘

　　5.The Cafeteria 食堂的餐盘

　　The once-seen-everywhere cafeteria tray, with so many glasses of soda, juice and milk lined up across the top, could soon join the typewriter as a campus relic scores of colleges and universities across the country are shelving the Uays in hopesof conserving water, curting food waste and saving money. Some even believe tray-less cafeterias could help avoid the dieaded freshman 15 - the number of pounds supposedly gained in the first year on campus.

　　校园餐厅里四处可见堆满的苏打水、果汁和牛奶托盘，也许很快就会与打字机一样成为校园遗迹了。为了节水、减少食物的浪费和省钱，全国几十所大学和学院都打算把托盘搁置起来。有些人甚至相信，在没有托盘的餐厅里就餐可以避免那可怕的u大一新生15磅大学第一年一般体重会增加的重量。

　　The Sustainable Endowments Institutechenefit.

　　全国大专院校食品服务会的执行董事约瑟夫.H.斯宾那将无托盘餐厅描述成现今的热事物。官员们说，他们之所以决定要倡导无托盘餐厅，主要是出于校园气氛的考虑，当然，这样做所带来的生态益处也是他们欢迎的。

　　But while the environmental henefits are real, going trayless is not a cure-all. At Skidmore, she all-you-can-eat format and multiplc food stations, fea turing vegetahles, Italian and classic. comfoods, encourage students to look around, taking a bit of this and a little of that.

　　但是，当真的要考虑环境益处时，无托盘餐厅可不是万能药。在Skidmore，自助式的形式，好几个食品供应站点，特色的蔬菜，意大利式的，传统的食品让学生自己选，可以选样吃一点，那样吃一点。

　　But this system also leads to over-crowded ning halls as diners return to the lines for seconds.

　　但是，当人们第二次回到餐台前选择食品的时候，餐台前就会变得比较拥挤。

　　As part of her senior honors thesis, Sarah Whateley, an iducted a research enwronmenlal sludies major. cnndu ch project to rlemonstrate how much food was slill wasted in the dining hall. She asked students to put their leflovers into plastic bins over hw days, yield in 330 pounrls of food on a Sunday and 403 pounds on a Monday. The food services staff then inustrated that quantity by stacking ffie equivalent weight in boxes of rice in the entrance of the dining hall.

　　环保专业的学生萨拉威特利在她的大四毕业论文中进行了一项研究。论证现在大学餐厅里究竟有多少食品被浪舞掉了。两天内，她让大学生们把自己吃剩的食物都放到大的塑料垃圾箱 里。星期天有330磅的食品，周一则有403磅。为了形象地显示数量，食堂的工作A员把同样重量的大米放在盒子里，摆在了食堂的人口处。

　　Dr. Spina of the coUege food service association, cited another benefit: You eventually have to learn how to hold your horsdoeuvre and cocktail in one hand while making conversation wiLh the other, so its a life lesson.

　　这家学校的食品服务委员会成员斯宾那博士弓f用别人的话说：你最终将要学会在与人交谈时如何一只手举着开胃菜和鸡尾酒，所以说，这是生活的知识。

　　CET4四级词汇：

　　cafeteria几自助餐厅或食堂

　　relin遗迹;遗物;残骸

　　coordinator协调者

　　atrnosp here大气;气氛

　　ecological生态学的

　　multiple多数的;多重的

　　demonstrate示范;演示

　　lefiover，剩余的;采用完的

　　association协会;社团

　　CET4阅读单词短语考点：

　　scorea of colleges and universities across the country are shelving the ways in hopesof conserving water, curting food waste and saving money.

　　为了达到节水、减少食物的浪费和省钱的目的，全国几十所大学和学院都打算把托盘搁置起来。

　　本句中主语由名词词组scores of colleE;es and universiUes across the country充当，谓语为are shelving，宾语为Lhe trays，而in hopes of canserving water,eutting food w鹅Ie and sanng money为宾补。

　　iⅡhope af:抱着的希望

　　He flattered the bofis in hople of being given a better job.

　　他拍老板的马屁，希望能得到一份好工作。

　　英语四级晨读100篇精华版005：The Cafeteria 食堂的餐盘

　　5.The Cafeteria 食堂的餐盘

　　The once-seen-everywhere cafeteria tray, with so many glasses of soda, juice and milk lined up across the top, could soon join the typewriter as a campus relic scores of colleges and universities across the country are shelving the Uays in hopesof conserving water, curting food waste and saving money. Some even believe tray-less cafeterias could help avoid the dieaded freshman 15 - the number of pounds supposedly gained in the first year on campus.

　　校园餐厅里四处可见堆满的苏打水、果汁和牛奶托盘，也许很快就会与打字机一样成为校园遗迹了。为了节水、减少食物的浪费和省钱，全国几十所大学和学院都打算把托盘搁置起来。有些人甚至相信，在没有托盘的餐厅里就餐可以避免那可怕的u大一新生15磅大学第一年一般体重会增加的重量。

　　The Sustainable Endowments Institutechenefit.

　　全国大专院校食品服务会的执行董事约瑟夫.H.斯宾那将无托盘餐厅描述成现今的热事物。官员们说，他们之所以决定要倡导无托盘餐厅，主要是出于校园气氛的考虑，当然，这样做所带来的生态益处也是他们欢迎的。

　　But while the environmental henefits are real, going trayless is not a cure-all. At Skidmore, she all-you-can-eat format and multiplc food stations, fea turing vegetahles, Italian and classic. comfoods, encourage students to look around, taking a bit of this and a little of that.

　　但是，当真的要考虑环境益处时，无托盘餐厅可不是万能药。在Skidmore，自助式的形式，好几个食品供应站点，特色的蔬菜，意大利式的，传统的食品让学生自己选，可以选样吃一点，那样吃一点。

　　But this system also leads to over-crowded ning halls as diners return to the lines for seconds.

　　但是，当人们第二次回到餐台前选择食品的时候，餐台前就会变得比较拥挤。

　　As part of her senior honors thesis, Sarah Whateley, an iducted a research enwronmenlal sludies major. cnndu ch project to rlemonstrate how much food was slill wasted in the dining hall. She asked students to put their leflovers into plastic bins over hw days, yield in 330 pounrls of food on a Sunday and 403 pounds on a Monday. The food services staff then inustrated that quantity by stacking ffie equivalent weight in boxes of rice in the entrance of the dining hall.

　　环保专业的学生萨拉威特利在她的大四毕业论文中进行了一项研究。论证现在大学餐厅里究竟有多少食品被浪舞掉了。两天内，她让大学生们把自己吃剩的食物都放到大的塑料垃圾箱 里。星期天有330磅的食品，周一则有403磅。为了形象地显示数量，食堂的工作A员把同样重量的大米放在盒子里，摆在了食堂的人口处。

　　Dr. Spina of the coUege food service association, cited another benefit: You eventually have to learn how to hold your horsdoeuvre and cocktail in one hand while making conversation wiLh the other, so its a life lesson.

　　这家学校的食品服务委员会成员斯宾那博士弓f用别人的话说：你最终将要学会在与人交谈时如何一只手举着开胃菜和鸡尾酒，所以说，这是生活的知识。

　　CET4四级词汇：

　　cafeteria几自助餐厅或食堂

　　relin遗迹;遗物;残骸

　　coordinator协调者

　　atrnosp here大气;气氛

　　ecological生态学的

　　multiple多数的;多重的

　　demonstrate示范;演示

　　lefiover，剩余的;采用完的

　　association协会;社团

　　CET4阅读单词短语考点：

　　scorea of colleges and universities across the country are shelving the ways in hopesof conserving water, curting food waste and saving money.

　　为了达到节水、减少食物的浪费和省钱的目的，全国几十所大学和学院都打算把托盘搁置起来。

　　本句中主语由名词词组scores of colleE;es and universiUes across the country充当，谓语为are shelving，宾语为Lhe trays，而in hopes of canserving water,eutting food w鹅Ie and sanng money为宾补。

　　iⅡhope af:抱着的希望

　　He flattered the bofis in hople of being given a better job.

　　他拍老板的马屁，希望能得到一份好工作。