2.seafood/prawn/lobster cocktailDFDsmall pieces of fish, prawns, or lobsterservedcold with a sauce and eaten as the first part of a meal 〔西餐作为第一道菜的〕凉拌海鲜/对虾/龙虾
Examples from the Corpus
seafood/prawn/lobster cocktail• He broke off and ordered a prawn cocktail.• The lobster cocktail was plentiful but a touch cotton-woolly in texture, and for no visible reason arrived on a plate.• Their prawn cocktails arrived, together with a carafe of heartyredwine.• The first course was avocado with prawn cocktaildressing.
cocktail• Years ago, rooms would have a cocktailtable that matched the end table and the sofa table.• It will test whether using a cocktail of five or more drugs is an improvement on three.• There's this one: a woman sitting in a bar, wearing a cocktailoutfit.• He died after taking a lethalcocktail of alcohol and tranquilizers.• Johnnie cruised away with another tray of cocktails.• I find that traditionalcocktail foods are always very popular and Devils or Angels on Horseback are a guaranteedsuccess.• Roll up carefully from head to tail and secure with one or two cocktailsticks. 3.
lethal cocktail• It probably illustrates it's a lethal cocktail of lorries and cars.• After all, each state comprised an often lethal cocktail of peoples.• In a flourish of biochemical altruism, they manufacturedeadlymolecules and then turn this lethal cocktail upon themselves.
Origincocktail
(1800-1900) Probably from cocktail“horse with a tail cut short so that it looks like a male chicken's, horse of mixed breed (with such a tail), mixture”((1800-1900))
1mixed alcoholic drink雞尾酒ADJECTIVE | VERB + COCKTAIL | COCKTAIL + NOUNADJECTIVE➤pre-dinner餐前雞尾酒➤afternoon, evening午後喝的/晚上喝的雞尾酒▸➤champagne香檳雞尾酒➤house, special店內推薦雞尾酒;特製雞尾酒◇The house cocktail is the caipirinha. Cheers!店內推薦雞尾酒是蓋比麗娜酒。乾杯!VERB + COCKTAIL➤make, mix製作/調製雞尾酒➤serve端上雞尾酒▸➤drink, have喝雞尾酒▸➤sip抿雞尾酒COCKTAIL + NOUN➤bar, lounge雞尾酒吧台;酒吧間➤cabinet, glass, napkin, shaker雞尾酒酒櫃/玻璃杯/餐巾/搖壺➤list, menu (especially NAmE) 雞尾酒酒單▸➤circuit輪流請喝雞尾酒的聚會◇a familiar face on the cocktail circuit輪流請喝雞尾酒時常見到的一張面孔➤dress(女式)常禮服▸➤hour雞尾酒會時間▸➤party, reception雞尾酒會;雞尾酒招待會▸➤waiter, waitress雞尾酒會服務員/女服務員cocktail
noun²
2dish of small pieces of food拼盤ADJECTIVE➤prawn, seafood, shrimp (NAmE) 大蝦冷盤;海鮮拼盤;蝦盤▸➤fruit水果拼盤cocktail
noun³
3mixture of different things混合物ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤deadly, lethal致命混合物▸➤heady, potent, powerful醉人的/烈性的/效力強的混合物◇The show was a heady cocktail of jazz and political satire.這場演出是爵士樂和政治諷刺劇的混搭,很搞笑。➤drug混合藥物PREPOSITION➤cocktail of⋯的混合物◇a lethal cocktail of vodka and drugs伏特加與藥物的致命混合物