The new book Harry Potter and the Cursed Child tells you all you’d want to know about how the play came to be. Here’s five things we learned reading it, and one you might have known already. 新书《哈利·波特与被诅咒的孩子》会告诉你所有你想知道的关于这出戏的故事。以下是我们从阅读中可以知道的五件事，其中一件你可能已经知道了。 Sam Clemmett and Anthony Boyle, who played Albus and Scorpius in the original London production, had to take an unusual taste test. In the play they have to eat Gillyweed, the plant that when consumed has the effect of generating webbing between the fingers and toes, as well as gills to breathe underwater. To standin for Gillyweed, they were offered a range of edible possibilities including actual seaweed and samphire. They settled on apple skin! 山姆·克莱梅特(Sam Clemmett)和安东尼·博伊尔(Anthony Boyle)在最初的伦敦版本中饰演阿不思和斯科皮，他们得接受一次不同寻常的口味测试。在剧中，他们需要吃鳃囊草，这种植物吃了以后手指和脚趾之间会长出蹼，以及拥有水下呼吸的鳃。为了代替鳃囊草，剧组给他们提供了一系列替代品的选择，包括真正的海草和海藻，最后他们选择了苹果皮!
consume 除了 消耗，消费；之外，还有 吃; 喝；的含义，例：Martha would consume nearly a pound of cheese per day. 玛莎那时每天吃将近一磅奶酪。
拓展搭配：propensity to consume 消费倾向；例：That slope is the marginal propensity to consume. 这个斜率就是边际消费倾向。
samphire 海蓬子；[植] 圣彼得草（一种伞形科植物）；例：Green though he was with seaweed, Samphire took his place beside the bride clad in white and was joined to her in matrimony. 船长被抓了起来。巴奇钦就这样一身绿色的海草走近穿着一身白色衣裙的新娘，和她举行了婚礼
seaweed 海藻，海草；例：Seaweed baths can help to detoxify the body. 海草浴有助于身体解毒。
