cake
n
1 [C, U] sweet food made from a mixture of flour, eggs, butter, sugar, etc baked in a certain shape or size and usu iced or decorated 糕; 蛋糕; 糕餅
a sponge cake 海綿狀蛋糕
a chocolate cake 巧克力蛋糕
a fruit cake 水果蛋糕
a piece/slice of (birthday) cake 一塊[片](生日)蛋糕
an assortment of fancy cakes 什錦花蛋糕
Have some more cake! 再多吃些蛋糕!
2 [C] other food mixture cooked in a round flat shape 餅
`fish cakes 魚肉餅 * po`tato cakes 馬鈴薯餅.
3 [C] shaped or hardened mass of a substance 塊狀物
a cake of soap 一塊肥皂.
4 (idm 習語) cakes and `ale pleasurable things in life 生活中的樂事; 吃喝玩樂
Life isn't all cakes and ale, you know. 要知道生活并非都是吃喝玩樂. get, want, etc a slice/share of the `cake get, etc a share of the benefits or profits one is or feels entitled to, eg as an employee of a business or an industry or as a member of a profession 得到應得的一份利益
As workers in a profit-making industry, miners are demanding a larger slice of the cake. 礦工們身處賺錢的企業(yè), 要求多分一杯羹. have one's cake and `eat it (infml 口) enjoy the benefits from two alternative courses of action, etc when only one or the other is possible (在兩者中只可得其一時)兩者兼得
He wants a regular income but doesn't want to work. He can't have his cake and eat it! 他又想要有穩(wěn)定的收入, 又不想工作. 他不能兩者兼得. a piece of cake => piece1. sell like hot cakes => sell. take the biscuit/cake => biscuit. cake, v
1 [esp passive 尤用於被動語態(tài)
Tn, Tn.pr]
~ sth (in/with sth) cover sth thickly (with sth that becomes hard when dry (以乾後可變硬的東西)厚厚地覆蓋某物)
His shoes were caked with mud. 他鞋上粘著厚厚的泥.
2 [I] harden into a compact mass 結成硬塊
Blood from the wound had caked on his face. 傷口的血在他臉上結成了硬塊.
?? 擴展釋義
*[keik]n. 蛋糕, 塊, 餅vt. 使結塊, 加塊狀物于vi. 結塊【醫(yī)】 餅; 餅狀物相關詞組: take the cake have one's cake and eat it