Toast
[təʊst] or [tost]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) slices of bread that have been toasted.
(noun.) a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; 'he was the toast of the town'.
(verb.) propose a toast to; 'Let us toast the birthday girl!'; 'Let's drink to the New Year'.
约翰校對--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(v. t.) To dry and brown by the heat of a fire; as, to toast bread.
(v. t.) To warm thoroughly; as, to toast the feet.
(v. t.) To name when a health is proposed to be drunk; to drink to the health, or in honor, of; as, to toast a lady.
(v.) Bread dried and browned before a fire, usually in slices; also, a kind of food prepared by putting slices of toasted bread into milk, gravy, etc.
(v.) A lady in honor of whom persons or a company are invited to drink; -- so called because toasts were formerly put into the liquor, as a great delicacy.
(v.) Hence, any person, especially a person of distinction, in honor of whom a health is drunk; hence, also, anything so commemorated; a sentiment, as "The land we live in," "The day we celebrate," etc.
格里菲思校對
同義詞及近義詞:
v. a. [1]. Scorch (in order to make more palatable, as bread or cheese).[2]. Warm (thoroughly), heat.[3]. Pledge, drink a health to, drink the health of, drink in honor of, drink to.
n. [1]. Toasted bread.[2]. Health (in drinking), pledge.[3]. Sentiment (uttered at a convivial meeting).
錄入:欧文
解釋/意思:
v.t. to dry and scorch at the fire: to name when a health is drunk: to drink to the health of.—v.i. to drink toasts.—n. bread toasted: a slice of such dipped in liquor: the person or thing named whose health is to be drunk.—ns. Toast′er one who or that which toasts; Toast′ing-fork -ī′ron a long-handled fork for toasting bread: a sword; Toast′-mas′ter the master and announcer of toasts at public dinners; Toast′-rack a stand with partitions for slices of toast for setting on the table.
錄入:赖安
例句/造句/用法:
- This made it very difficult for the housewife to serve the breakfast hot, and particularly the toast, which is a favorite dish of our breakfast table. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- The necessary steps back and forth from the breakfast room to the kitchen to prepare hot, crunchy toast made this portion of breakfast-getting a not agreeable feature. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- Some more toast. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I always propose that toast to the company, and drink Mary to myself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- I now propose a toast, as my 'friend and pardner, Sairy Gamp', says. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- You may give him a little tea, ma'am, and some dry toast without any butter. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Mr. Stiggins took up a fresh piece of toast, and groaned heavily. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Birkin decided that he detested toasts, and footmen, and assemblies, and mankind altogether, in most of its aspects. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- Nice toasts these Redheads will be drinking, wherever we buy it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- We celebrated a lady's birthday anniversary with toasts, speeches, a poem, and so forth. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Suppose the customary loyal toasts drunk; the King's health, the Queen's with deafening vivats; that of the nation 'omitted,' or even 'rejected. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- Toasts--glasses, glasses--now then, toasts! 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- We're going to drink toasts. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- 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.
- Fox had toasted her. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- Here, Hal--here is your toasted oatcake; eat and live! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Then toasted them all, To all the illusioned ones. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- That sausage you toasted was his, and he was in all respects a first-rater. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- Bread can be toasted by electricity. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- This one blacked his shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- And if it was a toasting-fork, you'd go into brass and do yourself no credit. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- She placed on the table a glass of new milk, a plate of something which looked not unlike leather, and a utensil which resembled a toasting-fork. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- She had seen Agnes, she told me while she was toasting. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- No, it's the toasting fork, with Mother's shoe on it instead of the bread. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- Watch-guards and toasting-forks were alike at a discount, and pencil-cases and sponges were a drug in the market. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- So did the Jew himself, toasting-fork in hand. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The laboratory witnessed high times that night, for all were in the best of humor, and many a bottle was drained in toasting the health of Edison and the aldermen. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
編輯:莎蒂