toast
toast 英 [təʊst] 美 [toʊst]
n. 吐司；干杯 vt. 向…祝酒，为…干杯 vi. 烘烤（面包片等）
进行时:toasting 过去式:toasted 过去分词:toasted 第三人称单数:toasts 名词复数:toasts
- What do you get when you heat a piece of bread long enough for it to become golden-brown on both sides? Congratulations, you've made a piece of toast!
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- n. 吐司；干杯
- vt. 向…祝酒，为…干杯
- vi. 烘烤（面包片等）
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1. I'd like to propose a toast to the bride and groom.
我提议为新娘新郎干杯。
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2. The happy couple were toasted in champagne.
人们举起香槟酒为这对幸福的伉俪干杯。
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3. cheese on toast
烤面包片加奶酪
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4. a piece of toast
一块烤面包片
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5. two slices of toast
两片烤面包片
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6. We toasted the success of the new company.
我们为新公司的成功干杯。
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7. a toasted sandwich
烤过的三明治
- toast (n.1) "a call to drink to someone's health," 1700 (but said by Steele, 1709, to date to the reign of Charles II), originally referring to the beautiful or popular woman whose health is proposed and drunk. The custom apparently has its origin in the use of spiced toast (n.2) to flavor drink, the lady being regarded as figuratively adding piquancy to the wine in which her health was drunk. Steele's story ["Tatler," No. 24] is that an (unnamed) beauty of the day was taking the cold waters at Bath, when a gentleman dipped his cup in the water and drank it to her health; another in his company wittily (or drunkenly) replied that, while he did not care for the drink, he would gladly enjoy the toast. Meaning "one whose health is proposed and drunk to" is from 1746. Toast-master attested from 1749.
- toast (n.2) "piece of bread browned by fire or dry heat," early 15c., from toast (v.1); originally as something added to wine, ale, etc. From 17c. in the modern sense as something eaten on its own with a spread. Slang meaning "a goner, person or thing already doomed or destroyed" is recorded by 1987, perhaps from notion of computer circuits being "fried," and with unconscious echoes of earlier figurative phrase to be had on toast (1886) "to be served up for eating."
- toast (v.1) "to brown with heat," late 14c., from Old French toster "to toast, to grill, roast, burn" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *tostare (source of Italian tostare, Spanish tostar), frequentative of Latin torrere (past participle tostus) "to parch," from PIE root *ters- "to dry." Related: Toasted; toasting.
- toast (v.2) "to propose or drink a toast," 1700, from toast (n.1). This probably is the source of the Jamaican and African-American vernacular word meaning "extemporaneous narrative poem or rap" (1962). Related: Toasted; toasting.
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