英语词汇“you can't have your cake and eat it too”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

a. to have one's cake and eat it and variants: to enjoy two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. in you can't have your cake and eat it too. Also as a modifier. Cf. to have it both ways at way n.¹ and int.¹ Phrases 1b(f).

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1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Lii What man, I trowe ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake?

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 38 You can't eat your cake, & have your cake too.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 95 As ridiculous as the way of Children, who first eat their Cake, and then cry for it... They shou'd be told, as Children, that They can't eat their Cake, and have it.

1815 Duke of Wellington Let. 17 Aug. in Dispatches (1838) XII. 589 Our own government also..having got their cake, want both to eat it and keep it.

1905 McClure's Mag. 25 48 In other words, we could eat our cake and have it, too—which is one secret of high finance.

2011 Atlantic Monthly July 72/1 Ours is a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too approach, a desire for high achievement without the sacrifice and struggle that this kind of achievement often requires.

单词	you can't have your cake and eat it too
释义	> as lemmas you can't have your cake and eat it too a. to have one's cake and eat it and variants: to enjoy two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives. Chiefly in negative contexts, esp. in you can't have your cake and eat it too. Also as a modifier. Cf. to have it both ways at way n.¹ and int.¹ Phrases 1b(f). ΚΠ 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. ix. sig. Lii What man, I trowe ye raue, Wolde ye bothe eate your cake, and haue your cake? 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 38 You can't eat your cake, & have your cake too. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Sensus Communis: Ess. Freedom of Wit 95 As ridiculous as the way of Children, who first eat their Cake, and then cry for it... They shou'd be told, as Children, that They can't eat their Cake, and have it. 1815 Duke of Wellington Let. 17 Aug. in Dispatches (1838) XII. 589 Our own government also..having got their cake, want both to eat it and keep it. 1905 McClure's Mag. 25 48 In other words, we could eat our cake and have it, too—which is one secret of high finance. 2011 Atlantic Monthly July 72/1 Ours is a have-your-cake-and-eat-it-too approach, a desire for high achievement without the sacrifice and struggle that this kind of achievement often requires. extracted from caken.adj. < as lemmas
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