but favourite eating varieties like cod and skate which grow to unnatural sizes,
而是深受人們喜愛的食用魚品種，如鱈魚和鰩魚，只不過它們長得出奇地大，
新概念英語第二冊
Lesson 90 What's for supper
?? 句中詞匯解析
從本句中提取的重要詞匯
favourite
['fev?r?t]
adj. 特別受喜愛的;
n. 特別喜愛的人（或物）;
"The foreign minister has become everybody's favourite Aunt Sally."
外交部長已成為眾矢之的。
近義：minion, darling, favorite, pampered, pet, preferred
vt.& vi. 溜冰，滑冰;
n. 溜冰鞋;
?? 送(s)凱特(kate)去 滑冰
"Where did you learn to skate ?"
你在哪兒學會滑冰的？
近義：manta, ray, devilfish, individual, person, subject
vt. 種植;擴大;擴展;增加;
vi. 生長;漸漸變得;逐漸開始;
vt.& vi. （使）留長，蓄長;
"He has decided to grow a beard and a moustache."
他已經決定留起絡腮胡子和髭。
近義：proliferate, propagate, breed, upsize, expand, increase
反義：shrink, lessen, attenuate, reduce, remit, slacken
adj. 不自然的，做作的;奇異的;不真誠的;違背人性的，變態的;
"It seems unnatural for a child to spend so much time alone."
一個孩子獨自一人待那么長時間似乎有點反常。
近義：preternatural, deviant, deviate, deviating, deviative, aberrant
反義：native, raw, unprocessed, unrefined, crude, natural