台灣獲世界甜點大賽最佳團隊獎Taiwan scores best team performance at French confectionery Contest

A team of Taiwanese confectionery chefs has won the Team Spirit award at the Mondial des Arts Sucrés (MDAS), a French confectionery contest, scoring their country’s best-ever performance.

For the contest, the contestants are required to complete seven types of confections in 20 hours, including ice cream pie, sugar sculpture, and chocolate. One contestant said that sculpting sugar and making chocolate were both challenging, especially creating sugar sculptures, which require heating sugar to 170 degrees Celsius.

The organizer said the two Taiwanese contestants were very confident and demonstrated remarkable team spirit, adding that these were the reasons they won the Team Spirit award.

友善讓你懂│解說：

今年在巴黎舉行的「世界甜點藝術大賽」中，來自台灣的甜點師傅團隊榮獲第4名「最佳團隊精神獎」，創下台灣參賽有史以來的最佳表現。

比賽辦法規定，參賽者需在20小時內完成七種甜點，包括冰淇淋派、糖雕、巧克力等。台灣隊的其中一位參賽者表示，雕刻糖雕和製作巧克力都非常具有挑戰性，尤其是製作糖雕塑，需要將糖加熱到攝氏170度，非常困難。

主辦單位表示，兩位台灣選手非常有自信，表現出超凡的團隊精神，這也是他們獲得最佳團隊精神獎的主要原因。

輕鬆帶著走│學習：

Score一詞，平時常見當名詞，意思就是分數，例句:

• The final score was 3–0. 最後的比數是3比0。

但當動詞使用時，可以指「得分」或「贏得」，例句：

• He scored in the last minute of the game. 他在比賽的最後一分鐘進了一球。
• She has scored a success with her latest novel. 她最新出版的小說獲得了成功。

本篇其他相關單字，介紹如下：

• confectionery (n.) 甜食
• contestant (n.) 競賽者
• challenging (adj.) 挑戰性的
• demonstrate (v.) 表現、呈現
• remarkable (adj.) 不凡的、非凡的