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I don't know about you, but I love looking through cookbooks and finding new recipes.

不知道大家什么情况 我是很喜欢看烹饪书 寻找新食谱

Are Anna and Jonathan going to tell me about a great new cookbook?

安娜和乔纳森是要告诉我一本很棒的新烹饪书吗？

What happend to Rita the accountant? Her desk is empty...

会计Rita怎么了？她的桌子都空了

She was fired! Turns out she was reporting all kinds of false earnings...for years!

她被炒鱿鱼了 原来她这么多年来上报的都是虚假收入

Rita was cooking the books? Wow, that does not seem like her.

Rita做假账了吗？哇 这不像她啊

To "cook the books" means to be dishonest about a company's earnings.

"cook the books"是指上报公司的虚假收入

This is illegal. "Books" in this case refers to accounting books--

这是非法的 这个表达中的"Books"指会计账簿

where businesses record financial information.

上面记录的是财务信息

But "cook"? Word experts say this usage means to present something in an unnatural, changed form.

那"cook"呢？单词汇专家认为这种用法是指用一种反常、改变的形式来呈现某物

And that’s English in a Minute.

以上就是今天的《一分钟英语》栏目