2007-08-07, Speed Eating Champion 速食大赛

Eat slowly, chew your food thoroughly¹, eat with a fork. These table manners don’t apply in the world of competitive eating, or sometimes called speed eating. The goal here--eat as much as you can in a short period of time.

Ladies and gentlemen, so it is, and so it shall be, let the waffle house, waffle world, waffle eating championship begin!

If you think the bigger the man, the more he can eat, then think again.

I have about 28 world records, you know, on different kind of food. Most / part of my record was 552 Louisiana Acme² oysters³, 65 hard-boiled eggs, in a six-minute-forty-second. 11-pound of cheesecakes, 44 lobster⁴, lobsters⁵ in ten-minute.

Sonya Thomas, one of the top speed eaters in the world, weighs just 105 pounds. Her nickname is Black Widow.

So this eating competition is almost by 99%, is male competitor. And I am the female competitor, and I wanna beat them, I wanna kill them, I wanna kill them, in, in eating, you know.

Sonya is a fierce competitor and I think she really likes to put men in their place. Um, I think she gets a little bit of a kick out of that. As Frenchness, she is so small, looks as if she couldn’t finish a tin of cottage cheese. And the guys next to her usually were so large that looked like they had their own eco-system. And yet she could beat them.

Sonya claimed she can eat 18 pounds of food in one sitting. How can a 105-pound woman eat almost one sixth of her body weight?

Over time, the stomach progressively becomes more and more dilated⁶, that this is an acquired adaptation that resulted from endless training, discipline and will power.

However she does it, Black Widow often beats men at least twice her size. The intense competition regularly draws hundreds of spectators. This attention on gorging⁷ mass quantities of food worries dietitians like Mariana Lopez.

From a health perspective, it’s important that they are doing things like having a cholesterol⁸ checked and taking it out of stance in their health commitments. My concern from a nutrition perspective is that speed eating or competitive eating kind of glamorizes the notion of over-consumption of food.

Glamorous⁹ or not, it’s unlikely we’ll be seeing Sonya in the Olympics any time soon.

I always dreamed one day that we would be in the Olympics, and my hopes were dashed on that the IOC president Jacques Rogge, has been, you know, dismissive at best, and refuses to return any of our phone calls. You know, I’ve moved on.

1 thoroughly   

adv.完全地，彻底地，十足地

参考例句：

• The soil must be thoroughly turned over before planting.一定要先把土地深翻一遍再下种。
• The soldiers have been thoroughly instructed in the care of their weapons.士兵们都系统地接受过保护武器的训练。

2 acme   

n.顶点，极点

参考例句：

• His work is considered the acme of cinematic art. 他的作品被认为是电影艺术的巅峰之作。
• Schubert reached the acme of his skill while quite young. 舒伯特的技巧在他十分年轻时即已达到了顶峰。

3 oysters   

牡蛎( oyster的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We don't have oysters tonight, but the crayfish are very good. 我们今晚没有牡蛎供应。但小龙虾是非常好。
• She carried a piping hot grill of oysters and bacon. 她端出一盘滚烫的烤牡蛎和咸肉。

4 lobster   

n.龙虾，龙虾肉

参考例句：

• The lobster is a shellfish.龙虾是水生贝壳动物。
• I like lobster but it does not like me.我喜欢吃龙虾，但它不适宜于我的健康。

5 lobsters   

龙虾( lobster的名词复数 )； 龙虾肉

参考例句：

• I have no idea about how to prepare those cuttlefish and lobsters. 我对如何烹调那些乌贼和龙虾毫无概念。
• She sold me a couple of live lobsters. 她卖了几只活龙虾给我。

6 dilated   

adj.加宽的，扩大的v.（使某物）扩大，膨胀，张大( dilate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her eyes dilated with fear. 她吓得瞪大了眼睛。
• The cat dilated its eyes. 猫瞪大了双眼。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 gorging   

v.（用食物把自己）塞饱，填饱( gorge的现在分词 )；作呕

参考例句：

• They had been gorging fruit in the forest. 他们方才一直在森林里狼吞虎咽地大嚼野果。 来自辞典例句
• He saw roses winding about the rain spout; or mulberries-birds gorging in the mulberry tree. 他会看到玫瑰花绕在水管上，或者是看到在桑树枝头上使劲啄食的小鸟。 来自辞典例句

8 cholesterol   

n.（U）胆固醇

参考例句：

• There is cholesterol in the cell of body.人体细胞里有胆固醇。
• They are determining the serum-protein and cholesterol levels.他们正在测定血清蛋白和胆固醇的浓度。

9 glamorous   

adj.富有魅力的；美丽动人的；令人向往的

参考例句：

• The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊，但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
• It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差，并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。