麥樂雞每塊都有英文名，吃麥當勞多年的你造嗎

繪◎趙欣玲

麥樂雞每塊都有英文名，吃麥當勞多年的你造嗎

繪◎趙欣玲

McDonald's Each Nugget Has a Name

McDonald's has revealed that their Chicken McNuggets come in four different shapes -shattering①shatter 英 ['??t?] 美 ['??t?] vt. 粉碎；打碎；破壞；破掉；使散開vi. 粉碎；損壞；落葉n. 碎片；亂七八糟的狀態the illusions②illusion 英 [?'l(j)u??(?)n] 美 [?'lu?n] n. 幻覺，錯覺；錯誤的觀念或信仰that the shapes are simply random③random 英 ['r?nd?m] 美 ['r?nd?m] adj. [數] 隨機的；任意的；胡亂的n. 隨意adv. 胡亂地.

And a spokesman for the company has revealed the reasoning behind the varying shapes, explaining that they were designed deliberately④deliberately 美 [d?'l?b?r?tli]adv. 故意地；謹慎地；慎重地and that each nugget⑤nugget 英 ['n?g?t] 美 ['n?ɡ?t] n. 天然金塊，礦塊；珍品actually has a name.

The crunchy⑥crunchy 英 ['kr?nt??] 美 ['kr?nt?i] adj. 易碎的；發嘎吱嘎吱聲的treats are known as either the "bell," the "boot," the "bone" and the "ball" although the nuggets seem to have slightly⑦slightly 英 ['sla?tl?] 美 ['sla?tli] adv. 些微地，輕微地；纖細地different names in different countries.

The spokesman explained: "The four shapes we make Chicken McNuggets in was the perfect equilibrium of dipability and fun."

麥當勞已經證實他們所售的雞塊有四種不同的形狀，打破了一些人認為雞塊是隨機形狀的看法。

一位麥當勞的發言人揭開了這不同形狀的秘密所在。雞塊都是有意設計的，而且事實上每一種雞塊都有自己的名字。

盡管在不同的國家名字有區別，但這些脆脆的可口雞塊是人們熟悉的“鐘形”“靴子形”“骨頭形”“球形”。

這位麥當勞發言人解釋道：“我們麥香雞塊的四種形狀是方便蘸取和趣味的完美結合”。