A：What'll you have,sir?
      先生，您想用点什么？

B：I don't know. What's good today?
      我不知道，今天有什么好东西？

A：Why not try the beef pot pie? That's the special today.Lots of people come in on Mondays just to get our beef pot pie.Or, how about the oyster stew?
      何不尝一下牛肉馅饼？这是今天的特色菜。星期一有很多人来这里就是为了吃牛肉馅饼。或者，炖牡蛎怎么样？

B：No, I'm hungry. That wouldn't last me the afternoon.I guess I'll have a hot beef sandwich with plenty of gravy.
      不要了，我很饿。它支撑不了我的一个下午。我想我要一个热的牛肉三明治加上大量肉汁。

A：Do you want it on whole wheat, white french, or rye?
      你想用麸皮面包、法式面包还是黑面包做？

B：Make it whole wheat.
      用麸皮面包。

A：Anything to drink?
      喝点什么？

B：Yes, coffee, but I'll come back for it later.
      咖啡，不过我等一会儿再回来喝？

1. 锅
    A pot is a deep round container used for cooking stews, soups, and other food.

    e.g. ...metal cooking pots.
           金属炒锅

2. 茶壶；咖啡壶
    You can use pot to refer to a teapot or coffee pot.

    e.g. There's tea in the pot.
           壶里有茶。

3. （装果酱、油漆等的）罐，桶
    A pot is a cylindrical container for jam, paint, or some other thick liquid.

    e.g. Hundreds of jam pots lined her scrubbed shelves.
           她那擦得干干净净的架子上排列着几百个果酱罐。

4. 同 flowerpot
    A pot is the same as a flowerpot .

5. 把…栽入盆中
    If you pot a young plant, or part of a plant, you put it into a container filled with soil, so it can grow there.

    e.g. Pot the cuttings individually.
           把插条分别栽入盆中。
    e.g. ...potted plants.
           盆栽植物

6. 大麻
    Pot is sometimes used to refer to the drugs cannabis and marijuana.

7. 一大笔；很多；大量
    If you have pots of money, you have a lot of it.

    e.g. He must have pots of money.
           他一定有很多钱。

8. （一盘纸牌游戏中各玩家所下的）赌注总额，全部赌注
    In a card game, the pot is the money from all the players which the winner of the game will take as a prize.

9. 公共基金
    You can refer to a fund consisting of money from several people as the pot .

    e.g. I've taken some money from the pot for wrapping paper.
           我已从公共基金里拿了一些钱买包装纸。

10. 大肚子；罗汉肚
    Someone who has a pot has a round, fat stomach which sticks out, either because they eat or drink too much, or because they have had very little to eat for some time.

11. （幼儿用的）便壶
      A pot is a deep bowl which a small child uses instead of a toilet.

12. （斯诺克及台球中）击（球）入袋
      In the games of snooker and billiards, if you pot a ball, you succeed in hitting it into one of the pockets.

      e.g. He did not pot a ball for the next two frames.
             他在接下来的两局中一杆未进。

13. see also: potted;chamber pot;chimney pot;coffee pot;lobster pot;melting pot;plant pot

14. （因无人照料或经营）垮掉，没落，衰落；荒废
      If something goes to pot, it loses all its good qualities because nobody looks after it or works at it.

      e.g. The neighbourhood really is going to pot.
             这个街区确实在走向败落。

15. 碰运气；撞大运
      If you take pot luck, you decide to do something even though you do not know what you will get as a result.

      e.g. If you haven't made an appointment, take pot luck and knock on the door...
             如果你没有预约，就敲门试试运气吧。
      e.g. He scorns the 'pot-luck' approach.
             他对这种“碰运气”的方法不屑一顾。