单词 | cake |
释义 | noun | verb cakecake1 /keɪk/ ●●● S1 W3 noun 1 [countable, uncountable] a soft sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, butter, sugar, and eggs: a birthday cake Do you want a piece of cake? Will you help me bake the cake?2[countable] a small piece of something, shaped into a block: cake of a cake of soap3a fish/rice/potato etc. cake fish, rice, potato, etc. that has been formed into a flat round shape and then cooked4have your cake and eat it too informal to have all the advantages of something without any of the disadvantages5take the cake informal to be worse than anything else you can imagine: You’ve done some pretty stupid things, but that really takes the cake! [Origin: 1100–1200 Old Norse kaka] → see also be selling/going like hotcakes at hotcake (1), pancake, be a piece of cake at piece1 (10) noun | verb cakecake2 verb 1be caked with/in something to be covered with a layer of something thick and hard: Terry’s elbow was caked with dried blood.2[intransitive] if a substance cakes, it forms a thick hard layer when it dries |
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