Cake
[keɪk] or [kek]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a block of solid substance (such as soap or wax); 'a bar of chocolate'.
(noun.) baked goods made from or based on a mixture of flour, sugar, eggs, and fat.
錄入:玛格利特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A small mass of dough baked; especially, a thin loaf from unleavened dough; as, an oatmeal cake; johnnycake.
(n.) A sweetened composition of flour and other ingredients, leavened or unleavened, baked in a loaf or mass of any size or shape.
(n.) A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake; as buckwheat cakes.
(n.) A mass of matter concreted, congealed, or molded into a solid mass of any form, esp. into a form rather flat than high; as, a cake of soap; an ague cake.
(v. i.) To form into a cake, or mass.
(v. i.) To concrete or consolidate into a hard mass, as dough in an oven; to coagulate.
(v. i.) To cackle as a goose.
錄入:撒迦利亚
同義詞及近義詞:
v. n. Harden, solidify, concrete, become firm or solid.
手打:利奥波德
解釋/意思:
n. a piece of dough that is baked: a small loaf of fine bread: any flattened mass baked as pan-cake &c. or as soap wax tobacco &c.: a thin hard-baked kind of oaten-bread—whence Scotland is styled the 'Land of Cakes:' fancy bread sweetened: a composition of bread with butter sugar spices currants raisins &c. baked into any form—plum-cake tea-cake wedding-cake.—v.t. to form into a cake or hard mass.—v.i. to become baked or hardened.—adj. Cak′y.—Cakes and ale a phrase covering vaguely all the good things of life.—To take the cake (slang) to carry off the honours rank first.
手打:维罗妮卡
娱乐性解釋/意思:
Batter or pancakes, denote that the affections of the dreamer are well placed, and a home will be bequeathed to him or her. To dream of sweet cakes, is gain for the laboring and a favorable opportunity for the enterprising. Those in love will prosper. Pound cake is significant of much pleasure either from society or business. For a young woman to dream of her wedding cake is the only bad luck cake in the category. Baking them is not so good an omen as seeing them or eating them.
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例句/造句/用法:
- I don't remember much about it, except that I was afraid of the cellar and the dark entry, and always liked the cake and milk we had up at the top. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Selden was rummaging in a cupboard for the cake. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- While eating his cake, I could not forbear expressing my secret wish that I really knew all of which he accused me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- Gooseberry jam, and the same home-made cake with too much soda in it! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Jo's upset the cake again! 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I coveted a cake of bread. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- After getting our lunch and upon reaching the sidewalk, Borst opened his mouth, and said: 'That's a great place; a plate of cakes, a cup of coffee, and a Russian bath, for ten cents. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Cakes of dates pounded and kneaded together are the food of the Arabs who traverse the deserts. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Sometimes soap refuses to form a lather and instead cakes and floats as a scum on the top of the water; this is not the fault of the soap but of the water. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- We are neither hypocrites or fools --for the rest, 'Dost thou think because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale? 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Against cakes: how cakes are bad things, especially if they are sweet and have plums in them. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I don't want to have you, so run away and help Daisy make patty cakes. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Don't you remember me, Mrs. Clapp, and those good cakes you used to make for tea? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The removal of the caked grease is difficult, and if soap alone is used, the cleaning of the tub requires both patience and hard scrubbing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Fine blow-pipes were also attached, and the fire from the blow-pipes was impinged on the exposed clay until it became caked sufficiently dry and hard to overcome slipping. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
整理:斯图