*【5】语法Cooking with Phrasal Verbs

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EVERYDAY GRAMMAR

Cooking with Phrasal Verbs

June 07, 2018

Everyday Grammar: Cooking with Phrasal Verbs

Traditional pasta with meat sauce

Then, turn down the heat.

Since the verb is separable, you can also say it this way:

Then, turn the heat down.

Tomatoes are the main ingredient in many traditional pasta sauces.

Boil over

Next, we have boil over – one of today’s easier verbs, as it does not take an object. To boil over means "to flow over the side of a container while boiling." Listen to how the recipe uses this verb and notice that it appears at the end of the sentence:

Otherwise, the sauce may boil over.

Hmm…has your cooking ever boiled over? Mine has.

Cool down

Ok, let’s talk about cool down. In relation to food, the verb means "to permit hot food to become cool enough to eat." In recipes, we often use cool down with the verb let. So, the sentence structure is a little different. Listen:

Then, let it cool down before serving it over pasta with a little parmesan.

The verb let is a causative verb. These verbs cause something to happen. After the causative verb let, we use the simple form of verbs rather than their infinitives. Notice, in our recipe, that we said, "Let it cool down," not "Let it to cool down."

Warm up (something)
Warm (something) up

Our final phrasal verb for today is warm up, another separable verb. To warm upmeans "to reheat a food to a desired temperature." Here’s how the recipe uses this verb:

And finally: Warm up your garlic bread to complete the meal.

Now that you know how separable phrasal verbs work, try writing this last example with the object – your garlic bread – in the middle of the verb.

Helpful tip

Most of the phrasal verbs you learned today are easier than some others in English. That’s because the first words of these phrasal verbs tell us their meanings. And, in fact, often, we use them as regular, one-word verbs rather than phrasal verbs. That means you could say, “Let the sauce cool” or “Let the sauce cool down” and it would have the same meaning.

Do you have a recipe you’d like to share? Write to us in the Comments section using at least three of the verbs you learned today.

I’m Alice Bryant.

Alice Bryant wrote this story for Learning English. Caty Weaver was the editor.

What is your favorite food to cook? Tell us how you make this food. Use some of the phrasal verbs from today. Write to us in the Comments section below or on our Facebook page.

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Words in This Story

recipe – n. a set of instructions for making food

pasta – n. a food made from a mixture of flour, water, and sometimes eggs that is formed into different shapes and usually boiled

sauce – n. a fluid dressing or topping for food

tomato – n. the usually large, rounded, edible, pulpy berry of an herb

onion – n. a round vegetable that is usually white, yellow, or red and has a strong smell and taste

garlic – n. a plant that has small sections which have a strong taste and smell and are used for flavoring foods

mushroom – n. a fungus that is shaped like an umbrella

ingredient – n. one of the things that are used to make a food or product

spice – n. a substance that is used in cooking to add flavor to food, comes from a dried plant, and is usually a powder or seed

parmesan – n. a hard Italian cheese

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