| 单词 | picnic |
| 释义 | picnic (once / 860 pages) nv A picnic is a meal that you eat outside. For your birthday, you might take a picnic lunch (including celebratory cupcakes) to a nearby beach with some friends. You can use the word picnic for both the occasion — "Let's go on a picnic!" — and for the meal itself: "I am packing the best picnic to take on our hike." It's also a verb, meaning "to eat outside." And when a friend describes a difficult task and adds, "It was no picnic," they mean to emphasize how hard it was — the opposite of an easy, breezy picnic. WORD FAMILYpicnic: picknicker, picniced, picnicing, picnicked, picnicker, picnicking, picnics+/picknicker: picknickers/picnicker: picnickers USAGE EXAMPLESThe family often picnics at Central Park and plays board games around their new table. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) Sigler recalled visiting the property for a Labor Day picnic last year and “drinking copious amounts of Russian vodka.” Los Angeles Times(Dec 30, 2016) Last fall, the neighborhood planned to move an annual neighborhood picnic and I replied that I wouldn’t be able to attend if the date changed. Slate(Dec 28, 2016) 1n any informal meal eaten outside or on an excursion Hypo|Hyper cookout an informal meal cooked and eaten outdoors barbecue, barbequea cookout in which food is cooked over an open fire; especially a whole animal carcass roasted on a spit clambakea cookout at the seashore where clams and fish and other foods are cooked--usually on heated stones covered with seaweed fish frya cookout where fried fish is the main course weenie roast, wiener roasta cookout where roasted frankfurters are the main course burgooa gathering at which burgoo stew is served meal, repast the food served and eaten at one time 2n a day devoted to an outdoor social gathering Syn|Hyper field day, outing holiday, vacation leisure time away from work devoted to rest or pleasure 3n any undertaking that is easy to do marketing this product will be no picnic Syn|Hypo|Hyper breeze, child's play, cinch, duck soup, piece of cake, pushover, snap, walkover doddle an easy task labor, project, task, undertaking any piece of work that is undertaken or attempted 4v eat alfresco, in the open air We picnicked near the lake on this gorgeous Sunday Hyper eat eat a meal; take a meal |
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