英语词汇“pie”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

pie¹

(pī)

1. A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough.

2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling.

3. Informal A pizza.

4. Something similar to or resembling pie: mud pie.

5. A whole that can be portioned out: "That would ... enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar" (New York Times).

Idiom:

pie in the sky

An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits ... is pie in the sky" (Howard H. Baker, Jr.).

[Middle English.]

单词	pie
释义	pie¹ (pī) n. 1. A dish composed of fruit, meat, cheese, or other ingredients baked over, under, or surrounded by a crust of pastry or other dough. 2. A layer cake having cream, custard, or jelly filling. 3. Informal A pizza. 4. Something similar to or resembling pie: mud pie. 5. A whole that can be portioned out: "That would ... enlarge the economic pie by making the most productive use of every investment dollar" (New York Times). *Idiom:* *pie in the sky* An empty wish or promise: "To outlaw deficits ... is pie in the sky" (Howard H. Baker, Jr.). [Middle English.]
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