bake
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1 [I, Tn, Dn.n, Dn.pr]
~ sth (for sb) (cause sth to) be cooked by dry heat in an oven (使某物放在烤箱烘烤
bake bread, cakes, etc 烘面包、糕餅等
The bread is baking/being baked. 面包正在烘烤.
I'm baking Alex a birthday cake/baking a birthday cake for Alex. 我正在給阿列克斯烤生日蛋糕.
baked potatoes 烤的馬鈴薯
baked beans, ie haricot beans baked and tinned with tomato sauce 烘豆(經烘烤後加入番茄汁做成罐頭的菜豆). =>Usage at cook 用法見 cook.
2 [I, Tn, Cn.a]
(cause sth to) become hard by heating (使某物)烤硬
The sun baked the ground hard. 太陽把地曬得硬幫幫的.
The bricks are baking in the kilns. 里正在燒磚.
3 [I] (fig infml 比喻, 口) be or become very hot 灼熱; 炎熱
It's baking today! 今天天氣炎熱!
We are baking in the sun. 我們讓太陽曬熟了.