cakes的中文翻译是什么意思

N-VAR蛋糕;糕饼

A cake is a sweet food made by baking a mixture of flour, eggs, sugar, and fat in an oven. Cakes may be large and cut into slices or small and intended for one person only.

• ...a piece of cake...

  一块蛋糕

• Would you like some chocolate cake?

  来点巧克力蛋糕怎么样?

N-COUNT饼状食物;饼

Food that is formed into flat round shapes before it is cooked can be referred to as cakes .

• ...fish cakes.

  鱼饼

• ...home-made potato cakes.

  自家做的土豆饼

N-COUNT块;小块

A cake of soap is a small block of it.

• ...a small cake of lime-scented soap.

  一小块青柠味香皂

VERB结块;凝结成块

If something such as blood or mud cakes, it changes from a thick liquid to a dry layer or lump.

• The blood had begun to cake and turn brown.

  血开始结块变黑。

PHRASE二者兼得;鱼与熊掌兼得

If you think that someone wants the benefits of doing two things when it is only reasonable to expect the benefits of doing one, you can say that they want to have their cake and eat it .

• What he wants is a switch to a market economy in a way which does not reduce people's standard of living. To many this sounds like wanting to have his cake and eat it.

  他想要转型为市场经济,同时又不降低人们的生活水平。在许多人看来,这是想要鱼与熊掌兼得。

PHRASE非常抢手;非常畅销;热销

If things are selling like hot cakes, a lot of people are buying them.

• Books on the Royal Family are selling like hot cakes.

  有关皇室的书卖得正火。

PHRASE小事一桩，易如反掌，小菜一碟（常用于安慰别人）

If you think something is very easy to do, you can say it is a piece of cake. People often say this to stop someone feeling worried about doing something they have to do.

• Getting rid of him will be a piece of cake...

  摆脱掉他就是小事一桩。

• Just another surveillance job, old chap. Piece of cake to somebody like you.

  老伙计,只不过又是一份盯梢的活。对你这样的人来说还不是小菜一碟。

PHRASE(愚蠢、无礼、自私的行为）非常过分，极其讨厌

If someone has done something very stupid, rude, or selfish, you can say that they take the cake or that what they have done takes the cake, to emphasize your surprise at their behaviour.