| 单词 | cook |
| 释义 | cook cook1 —cookable, adj. —cookless, adj. /kook/, v.t. 1. to prepare (food) by the use of heat, as by boiling, baking, or roasting. 2. to subject (anything) to the application of heat. 3. Slang. to ruin; spoil. 4. Informal. to falsify, as accounts: to cook the expense figures. v.i. 5. to prepare food by the use of heat. 6. (of food) to undergo cooking. 7. Slang. a. to be full of activity and excitement: Las Vegas cooks around the clock. b. to perform, work, or do in just the right way and with energy and enthusiasm: That new drummer is really cooking tonight. Now you're cooking! c. to be in preparation; develop: Plans for the new factory have been cooking for several years. d. to take place; occur; happen: What's cooking at the club? 8. cook off, (of a shell or cartridge) to explode or fire without being triggered as a result of overheating in the chamber of the weapon. 9. cook one's goose. See goose (def. 9). 10. cook the books, Slang. to manipulate the financial records of a company, organization, etc., so as to conceal profits, avoid taxes, or present a false financial report to stockholders. 11. cook up, Informal. a. to concoct or contrive, often dishonestly: She hastily cooked up an excuse. b. to falsify: Someone had obviously cooked up the alibi. n. 12. a person who cooks: The restaurant hired a new cook. [bef. 1000; (n.) ME cok(e), OE coc (cf. ON kokkr, G Koch, D kok) < L cocus, coquus, deriv. of coquere to cook; akin to Gk péptein (see PEPTIC); (v.) late ME coken, deriv. of the n.] cook2 /koohk, kook/, v.i. Scot. to hide, esp. outdoors, as by crouching down behind a hedge. [1780-90; perh. b. ME couche bend, stoop (see COUCH) and ME croke bend, stoop (see CROOKED)] |
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