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欢迎来到《一分钟英语》栏目！
Salt is used to add flavor to food.
盐用于给食物增添风味3As(b+)r=XrXl&。
Each tiny piece of salt is a grain.
每一小片盐都是小颗粒by5LUbFu@r。
Take (something) with a grain of salt.
半信半疑

Did you hear about Mary? She won the lottery! Oh, did she?
你听说玛丽的事了吗？她中了彩票！哦，是吗？
Remember when she said she appeared on the TV show Apartment of Cards?
你还记得她说过自己上过Apartment of Cards这个电视节目吗？
You mean that never really happened?
你的意思是她永远中不了彩票？
I’d take anything Mary says with a grain of salt. She likes to make things up.
我对玛丽的话采取保留态度+ZaWi[&h_zf.P。她喜欢编造事实Te+u7c_tiG=5。
If you “take something with a grain of salt”, you listen to something with suspicion and doubt.
如果你“take something with a grain of salt”，你听的时候是怀疑的;YM4L+TH[~~。
You do not immediately accept is as true.
你不会立即承认那是事实9~cT;.oKQ,。
Some word experts say this expression comes from a different salt-related phrase
一些词汇专家说，这一表达出自一个与盐有关的不同短语G[XCDg;P=68N。
written nearly 2,000 years ago by the Roman philosopher Pliny the Elder.
即2000年前罗马哲学家老普林尼曾写过的+^OZ.iLl(]nbHcrY。
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