2016年4月6日 星期三

mouth-watering, inviting, uninviting, break bread, tax break

Mouth-watering paintings of French garden vegetables commissioned by the 19th century's most important seed company, Vilmorin-Andrieux & Cie. At the height of its international renown, the company published its splendid Album Vilmorin. Les Plantes potagères (The Vegetable Garden, 1850–1895) featuring 46 magnificent color plates.

Ahmed Ahmed Swaid, 50, sells qat (a stimulating plant leaf that is chewed) in Sanaa, Yemen, pictured here with dishes of fava beans, minced meat, lamb and saltah (a stew with beef and eggplant). Estimated calories pictured: 3,300.
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Breaking Bread Everywhere, Plentifully or Pitifully

By TARA PARKER-POPE
A photo exhibit in Boston is an anthropological exploration of the culture of eating that is both mouthwatering, repulsive and surprising


Plan the perfect getaway with this selection of the most inviting spas worldwide.



Silicon Valley's Mouthwatering Tax Break




Postcard: Is Heathrow's Terminal Five Finally Taking Off?

London's Heathrow is renown for being not only the largest, but also the
most uninviting airport in the world. The new Terminal Five was supposed
to change that image.

The DW-WORLD Article
http://newsletter.dw-world.de/re?l=evzcfmI44va89pI7




uninvitingadj.
Not pleasant or attractive; disagreeable: an uninviting prospect.
uninvitingly un'in·vit'ing·ly adv.


mouth-watering

adj.
Appealing to the sense of taste; appetizing: the mouthwatering aroma of a baking pie.

inviting
adj.
Attractive; tempting: an inviting dessert.

invitingly in·vit'ing·ly adv.
break bread
Have a meal, eat. For example, It's hard to remain enemies when you've broken bread together. This term occurs in numerous places in the New Testament, where it sometimes means to share bread and other times to distribute food to others. In later usage it came to refer to the sacramental bread of Communion in Christian services. The latter survives in the spiritual hymn, "Let Us Break Bread Together." [1300s]


breaking of Bread :分餅;掰餅;擘餅: (1) 彌撒中領聖體前之分餅禮:分成三塊,最小的一塊放入聖爵與酒(聖血)溶合。 (2) 耶穌復活當天,二位門徒行經厄瑪烏 Emmaus 的路上遇到耶穌,並邀祂共進晚餐,一直到「分餅」時才認出耶穌來(路廿四 13-35 )。又稱 fraction

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