A：May I take your order now?
      你们可以点菜了吗？

B：Yes, I think we’re ready to order. Elizabeth, what would you like to have?
      行，我想我们可以点菜了。伊丽莎白，你想来点什么？

C：I haven’t made up my mind yet. You order first, Donald.
      我还没决定呢。唐纳德，你先点吧。

B：All right. I’ll start with chicken soup. Then I want a steak, medium rare. I’ll have a baked potato, green beans and an egg salad. I’ll order dessert later.
      好的。我先来个鸡汤，然后要一份牛排，嫩一点。要一份烤土豆片，青豆和一份鸡蛋色拉。待会儿我再要点甜食。

A：Yes, sir. And you, miss? What would you like to have?
      好的，先生。你呢，小姐？你想吃点什么？

C：I can’t decide. I don’t see anything I really like.
      我拿不定主意。我没看到什么我真喜欢的菜。

A：There are over thirty dishes to select from, miss.
      小姐，这儿有三十多种菜供您选择呢。

B：There ought to be something you like, Elizabeth.
      伊丽莎白，这儿一定有你喜欢的。

C：Well, I guess so. But I only see food that I don’t like. I don’t care for chicken and I can’t stand fish. Do you have any oysters?
      大概有吧。可我看到的尽是些我不喜欢的菜。我不喜欢吃鸡肉，鱼也不合我的口味。有牡蛎吗？

ideal

A：No, miss. I’m afraid not. How about some other seafood?
      没有，小姐。恐怕没有。别的海鲜怎么样？

C：Oysters are the only seafood I like. I dislike the rest.
      海鲜中我只喜欢牡蛎，其它的都不喜欢。

B：I wish I could think of something for you.
      真希望我能为你想出什么菜来。

A：May I suggest cream of tomato soup, steak with mushroom gravy, asparagus, and buttered cauliflower. For dessert—strawberry pie with ice cream?
      我给您推荐几个菜吧：奶油西红柿汤，蘑菇汁牛排，芦笋，黄油黄牙菜。至于甜食，冰激凌草莓馅饼您看怎么样？

C：No, that isn’t my ideal of a good meal. I’ll have a hamburger. That’s my favorite dish. I have it every day.
      不行。那不是我理想的一顿美餐。我来一个汉堡包。我最喜欢吃汉堡包，每天都吃。

1. 理想
    An ideal is a principle, idea, or standard that seems very good and worth trying to achieve.

    e.g. ...the bohemian ideals of truth, beauty, freedom and love.
           崇信真、美、自由与爱的波西米亚式理想
    e.g. I tried to live up to my ideal of myself.
           我努力活出理想的自我。

2. 理想典范;完美典型
    Your ideal of something is the person or thing that seems to you to be the best possible example of it.

ideal

    e.g. ...the Japanese ideal of beauty...
           日本人理想中的美人形象
    e.g. Throughout his career she remained his feminine ideal.
           在他整个职业生涯中，她一直是他心中完美女性的代表。

3. 理想的;最佳的
    The ideal person or thing for a particular task or purpose is the best possible person or thing for it.

    e.g. She decided that I was the ideal person to take over the job...
           她认定我是接手这份工作的最佳人选。
    e.g. I really love the area and see it as an ideal place to start my managerial career...
           我真的很喜欢那个地区，把它视为开创我管理事业的理想之地。

4. 完美的;理想的
    An ideal society or world is the best possible one that you can imagine.

    e.g. We do not live in an ideal world...
           我们并非生活在完美的世界里。
    e.g. In an ideal world, there would be no such thing as rubbish...
           在一个理想世界中，不会有垃圾之类的东西。