by anonymous

翻译：寒星

天生我“堡”不垃圾

by anonymous

翻译：寒星

Track 6

呀，不得了，原来连汉堡们都开始行动起来啦！怎么样，为了饮食更加健康，你是不是也该有所行动了呢？哈哈！

Once upon a time, there was a burger who had many lives. Each day, she would wake up in the burger bar, and patiently wait her turn to be cooked by the chefs, before being served to the customers. While being eaten, she would do everything possible to make herself really delicious, and with the customer’s final bite, she would feel like the lights had gone out and she had simply fallen asleep. The next day, the whole process would repeat itself.

The little burger could have continued quietly living this way for many years if it hadn’t been for the fact that, one day, while she was waiting her turn at the1)cooking range, she heard one of the customers referring to her as“junk food.” And, this made her angry! She was so2)furious that she almost3)spontaneously4)combusted.

From then on, she realized that many people used that term about her and her sisters. And after listening closely to any radio or television program about junk food or healthy food, she arrived at a5)horrifying conclusion: it was true, she was “junk food.”

Now she understood why most of her favorite customers were now much fatter than they had been when she first met them, and why those who came most often didn’t look too well. The burger felt terrible, all this was her fault! So she tried to find some solution, some way they could shake off that terrible name.

And then, whenever she saw one of the kids who visited almost daily, she would choose the best place to be chosen, and would wait to be served. The child sank their teeth into the burger and6)chewed the7)mouthful just as usual. Then along came another bite, with the burger concentrating as before, but everything happened just like before…

Several more bites and the burger8)was about to give up. But then she heard the child’s voice,“9)Blimey, how strange! This burger doesn’t taste of anything!”

That was just the start of what turned out to be a perfect plan. The burger10)convinced all her sisters not to have any11)flavor whenever they were with a customer that visited too often,12)in return for being even13)tastier when the customer came rarely.

In this way, they began to see fewer14)chubby, unhealthy-looking faces in the restaurant. Many of their old familiar friends started looking much better, while getting to eat much tastier burgers.

And these burgers became much more popular from then on, because it’s always more enjoyable to taste something after not having it for a while.

1) cooking range 灶头

2) furious ['fjʊərɪəs] adj. 暴怒的

3) spontaneously [spɒn'teɪnɪəslɪ] adv. 不由自主地

4) combust [kəm'bʌst] v. 燃烧

5) horrifying ['hɒrɪfaɪɪŋ] adj. 可怕的

6) chew [tʃuː] v. 咀嚼，咬碎

7) mouthful ['maʊθfʊl] n. 满口，一口

8) be about to 刚要，正打算

9) blimey ['blaɪmɪ] int.（表示惊奇）哎呀，天啊

10) convince [kən'vɪns] v. 使相信，信服

11) flavor ['fleɪvə] n. 味道

12) in return for 作为……的回报

13) tasty ['teɪstɪ] adj. 好吃的，可口的

14) chubby ['tʃʌbɪ] adj. 圆圆胖胖的，丰满的

从前，有一个汉堡，她有很多条命。每天，她会在汉堡店中醒来，在被送到客人餐桌以前，耐心地等待着被厨师烹饪。每当被吃进嘴里时，她便会竭尽所能地让自己尝起来非常美味，而随着客人咬下最后一口，她就感觉仿佛灯光熄灭了，而自己也就这样睡着了。第二天，这一整个过程又会再次循环。

如果不是那一天，这个小汉堡大概会继续这样安静地生活好多年。那天，当她在炉灶上排队等候时，她听到一位客人称她为“垃圾食品”。当然，这让她很生气！她是如此愤怒，几乎不由自主地火冒三丈了。

自那时起，她发现许多人都用那个词来形容她和她的姐妹们。而在仔细收听了一些关于垃圾食品或健康食品的电台或电视节目后，她得出了一个骇人的结论：这是真的，她确实是“垃圾食品”。

如今她总算明白为什么大多数她最喜爱的客人现在会比初次见面时要胖得多了，也明白了为什么最经常光顾的客人脸色看起来会不太好。小汉堡感到糟糕极了，这全都是她的错！于是她试图寻找解决的方法，一个能够让她们摆脱那个恶名的方法。

后来，每当她看到孩子们中有谁是几乎每天都会来吃汉堡的，她便会选择一个最容易被挑中的位置，等待着被孩子吃掉。