每日口說挑戰【CNN10】美國製藥公司的疫苗聲明、東京奧運暖身試辦、冰淇淋的歷史與未來發展

Thanks Ken! 請問：how Japan can scale these COVID measures...這句的scale的中文應該怎麼翻譯？

1. historian (n.) [hɪsˋtorɪən]歷史學家 Historian means someone who writes about or studies history. *Some historians think that history repeats itself.

2. medieval (a.) [͵mɪdɪˋivəl]中世紀，中古時代 Medieval means something that relates to the Middle Ages, which is 680 to 1580. *Jeffrey dressed up as a medieval knight on Halloween.

3. ingredient (n.) [ɪnˋgridɪənt]食品成份 Ingredient means the food materials that are used to prepare for a bigger dish. *The most commonly used ingredients to bake a cake are flour, sugar, eggs and butter or oil.

Alright folks, that’s all the time we have for today. What’s your favorite dessert? Do you prefer ice cream or popsicles(n. [ˋpɑpsəkəl] 冰棒)? Let me know in the comment section down below. And also, please help us fill out survey if you haven’t already done so. Your generous feedback serve(v.對⋯有用) as a motivation to improve and to come up with more interesting and helpful content. Thanks for joining us, and I’ll see you guys next week.

你是冰淇淋派還是冰棒派？底下留言大論戰！
或是分享一下你最愛的甜品～ 一起流口水＠

【本集文稿】

COVID-19 Vaccine

Hi folks, let’s begin our news briefing today with some good news on the vaccine for COVID-19. According to the US Health and Human Services secretary, there are not one, but two vaccines that are showing hopeful data from phase three trials in less than a year after the pandemic began. Phase three trials are when vaccines were tested on thousands of people for safety and effectiveness after they've been tested on smaller groups in phases one and two. It's been a week since the U.S. drug company Pfizer announced its coronavirus vaccine appeared to be 90 percent effective. Now, another U.S. drug company named Moderna says it's covid vaccine appears to be almost 95 percent effective, again, in early data from their phase three trial. If these vaccines are proven safe and approved by the US Food and Drug Administration, the FDA, medical officials say the country could be issuing them by the end of this year.

TOKYO Olympics warm up

2020 was supposed to be a big year for sports, yes, the Tokyo Olympics, it has been postponed to the summer of 2021. And just recently, Japan showed the world that it can host the Olympics in the middle of a pandemic. 32 gymnasts from Japan, the U.S., Russia, and China plus 2000 socially distanced fans gathered at Yoyogi National Gymnasium on Nov 8 in Tokyo for one of the first international sporting competitions since the COVID-19 pandemic began.

For athletes, this was a competition like no other. In addition to wearing masks, taking daily temperature checks and COVID-19 tests, all delegations had to take a 2-week quarantine before arriving in Tokyo. All athletes expressed excitement and a sense of hope for this competition. Meanwhile, Japan is dealing with a third wave of COVID-19 cases as infections reached record highs of more than 1000 per day. It's still unclear how Japan can scale these COVID measures for the Olympics, which typically has hundreds of events, more than 10,000 competitors and millions of spectators.

History of Ice Cream

What’s your favorite dessert? Is it a cake? An egg tart? Or a bowl of sweet douhua? Well, for people around the world, the average answer would probably be ice cream. Historians believe that ice cream dates back to medieval China, when milk was mixed with other ingredients before being frozen in pools of ice. Wow, so ice cream is a Chinese dessert? Mind-blowing! The basic ingredients of cream, milk, and sugar have remained pretty steady through the recent decades, but the way it's been served and shopped for continues to evolve in 2020. Ice cream trucks, freezers in convenient stores, and the grocery aisles are places where most of us usually go to buy an ice cream. But when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, many people stopped buying them. That was a problem for some of the largest ice cream brands in the world. Unilever is the corporate that sells some of the world's best-known ice cream brands. To save its ice cream market in the pandemic, Unilever offered ice cream delivery services. To make deliveries possible, the company partners with local services like Grubhub, Uber eats Doordash, and even Domino's Pizza in several major cities across the globe, the company claims it can have ice cream on customers' doorsteps within 30 minutes. Of course, in Taiwan or other Asian countries, you might get it a little bit faster. Whether it’s a hot summer day or cold winter night, ice creams are always there to satisfy your sweet tooth.

☺Historians believe it dates back to medieval China, when milk was mixed with other ingredients before being frozen in pools of ice.
歷史學家們認為，冰淇淋的起源可以追溯到中世紀的中國，當時牛奶會先跟其他原料混合後再放入冰池冷凍。
【心得】冰品很多種除了冰淇淋和冰棒，還有剉冰和冰沙。對了，還有炒冰和炸冰淇淋，這2種我都沒吃過，不知道好不好吃。
■historian [hɪsˋtorɪən] 歷史學家
■medieval [͵mɪdɪˋivəl] 中世紀(約西元600年至1500年間)的、中古時代的；中古風的；老式的；守舊的
■ingredient [ɪnˋgridɪənt] (食品的)成分、材料；(構成)要素、因素；組成部分；原料
■pool [pul] 共同資金、共用物、共用資源、共用人員；總賭款、全部賭注；企業聯合、合資經營；游泳池(=swimming pool)；(液體的)一灘、一片；池、潭、水塘
撞球
the pools 足球賭博(= football pools)
(為共同目的)合出(資金、物資、想法等)；合辦、聯營

為什麼今天的聲音聽起來像機器人…

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Some historians (歷史學家）think that history repeats itself.

Jeffery dressed up as a medieval （中世紀）knight on Halloween.

The most commonly used ingredients to bake a cake are flour, eggs, sugar and butter or oil.

【by dint of sth】（formal）由於，憑藉...的力量
－ as a result of something
■ She got what she wanted by dint of pleading and threatening.
她軟硬兼施終於達到了目的

Historians believe it (ice cream) dates back to medieval China, when milk was mixed with other ingredients before being frozen in pools of ice.

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