Is rice a popular dish in America? This is a simple way to see if rice is a common or popular food consumed in America. If you were going to ask the person directly if they eat a lot of rice you would say “Do you eat a lot of rice?”.
“Is rice a popular dish in America?”
(米はアメリカでは人気の料理ですか?)
これは、米がアメリカで消費される一般的な食べ物か人気のある食べ物かどうかを確認するシンプルな言い方です。
その人にたくさんの米を食べるかどうか直接尋ねるのなら、
“Do you eat a lot of rice?”(あなたはたくさんの米を食べますか?)と言えます。
"Do Americans often eat rice?" is the casual way to ask the question.
To sound more formal, we can use "staple food" which means a food that is routinely or usually eaten.
*Is rice a popular food in America.
This means you would like to know if a lot of Americans prefer rice to other dishes in America. This means that most households eat rice a lot.
*Do a lot of Americans eat rice often.
Often means frequently or many times.Therefore you want to know if they eat rice many times.
*Is rice a popular food in America.
(アメリカでお米は人気のある食物ですか?)
これは、多くのアメリカ人にお米が好まれているか知りたいという意味になります。
多くの家庭でお米が沢山食べられているかどうか、と言う意味になります。
*Do a lot of Americans eat rice often.
(多くのアメリカ人はお米をよく食べますか?)
"Often"とはしょっちゅう、頻度にと言う意味ですので、どのくらいの頻度でお米を食べるか知りたい、と言う意味になります。
You may ask this either with a closed question:
"Is rice an important food in the USA?"
Or an open question:
"How popular is rice in the USA?"
A staple = A staple food, or simply a staple, is a food that is eaten routinely and in such quantities that it constitutes a dominant portion of a standard diet for a given people, supplying a large fraction of energy needs and generally forming a significant proportion of the intake of other nutrients as well.
これらの質問か、これらに似たような質問をすることが出来ます。
"Is rice an important food in the USA?"
(アメリカではお米は重要な食物ですか?)
又は、自由な質問で
"How popular is rice in the USA?"
(アメリカではお米はどのくらい人気がありますか?)
A staple = staple food を簡単に言ってstaple(主食)です。 これは日常的に最も摂取される食物で、エネルギーを作るのに重要な栄養素になります。
Do a lot of people eat rice in America on a daily basis?
1. Is rice a staple food in America?
Definition of staple food: That is regularly consumed in a community or society and from which people obtain most or a significant proportion of their calorie intake on a daily basis.
2. Do a lot of people eat rice in America on a daily basis?
If a certain food is eaten often by a society especially on a daily basis, then it is a major food of that society.
1. Is rice a staple food in America?
(アメリカではお米を主食に食べますか?)
staple food: これは、主食の食物です。ある特定の地域やグループで通常食べられる物で、毎日の生活で最も重要で大きいカロリー摂取を占める食品の事です。
2. Do a lot of people eat rice in America on a daily basis?
(日常的にアメリカ人はお米をたくさん食べますか?)
特定の食品がある地域やグループの人々に日常的に食べられていれば、それはその地域又はグループの"major food"(主食)と言う事になります。
Rice is a staple food in many countries...where tradition has made it so!
A staple food, describes any food that is "eaten routinely" in such great quantities that it forms a dominant part of the standard diet in that region...
Japan is of course a very sophisticated society and rice has been used there for centuries... Hamburgers and corn dogs arer more likely in the USA!
They have a "high risk" diet with lots of red meat!
A staple foodとは、主食のことを指します。
日本は、とても洗練された国で、何世紀にも渡って、お米が食べられてきました。ハンバーガーやアメリカンドッグは、アメリカではそのような食べ物にあたります。赤身のお肉が多く使われているので非常に危険な食べ物です。