2.fish/rice/potato etc cakeDFFfish, rice etc that has been formed into a flat round shape and then cooked 鱼肉饼/米饼/马铃薯饼等
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fish/rice/potato etc cake• In celebration of a new weight control year, the QuakerOats Co. has developed yet another rice cake flavor.• From top, Smokedsalmonrolls with pesto rice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake.• Deep fryfish cakes and warm for 5 mins before serving with tomatosauce and lightly-boiled leeks and celery.• LunchRice cakes, low-fatcheese, tomatoes and onion, apple.• She'd claim it was quite ordinary - fish cake s, only they went wrong - that sort of thing.• My husband and the ministerwives who come to the party do not care for the rice cake.• I bet he had the fish cakes.• Slide the potato cake from the pan on to a plate.
6.have your cake and eat itBritish EnglishBrE, have your cake and eat it too American English spokenADVANTAGE to have all the advantages of something without its disadvantages 鱼与熊掌兼得
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have your cake and eat it• It appears the Ministry men can have their cake and eat it ... but only if we let them.• They don't imagine they can have their cake and eat it too.• You can have your cake and eat it; the only trouble is, you get fat.• That way he could have his cake and eat it too.• You can't have your cake and eat it.• First, is it an ethicalinvestment policy to encourage people to try to have their cake and eat it?• It seems as though the council wants to have itscake and eat it.• The benefits of standardization are coupled with the capacity to respond to change-a way to have your cake and eat it too.
7a slice of the cakeBritish EnglishBrEMONEY a share of the profit, help etc that is available 〔可以分得的〕好处,利益
Both companies expect to get a big slice of the cake.
两家公司都希望分得一大杯羹。
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a slice of the cake• The lattertend to offer less favourableterms, in order that they may have a slice of the cake.
We decorated the cake with strawberries and cream.
我们用草莓和奶油装饰蛋糕。
ice a cakeBritish EnglishBrE, frost a cakeAmerican EnglishAmE (=cover a cake with fine sugar mixed with a liquid) 给蛋糕撒糖霜
nShe iced her own wedding cake.
phrases
a piece/slice of cake 一块蛋糕
Would you like a slice of cake?
你想来块蛋糕吗?
a cake recipe 蛋糕食谱
nDo you have any good cake recipes?
a cake tinBritish EnglishBrE, a cake panAmerican EnglishAmE (=that you bake a cake in) 蛋糕烤盘
nUse a 20 cm cake tin.
a cake shop 蛋糕店
nThere’s a very good cake shop in the market.
cake mix (=a mixture that you buy in a packet and use for making a cake) 蛋糕粉
nIf I’m feeling lazy, I sometimes use a cake mix.
types of cake 蛋糕品种
a birthday/Christmas/wedding cake (=a special cake for a birthday etc) 生日/圣诞/婚庆蛋糕
Lucy had twelve candles on her birthday cake.
露西的生日蛋糕上插了12支蜡烛。
a home-made cake 家里自制的蛋糕
Home-made cakes are much nicer than bought ones.
家里自制的蛋糕比买来的蛋糕好吃多了。
a fruit cake (=one with dried fruit in it) 水果蛋糕
nFruit cakes keep for quite a long time.
a sponge cake (=one made from flour, butter, sugar, and eggs) 海绵蛋糕
nIt’s best to eat sponge cakes on the day you make them.
a chocolate/lemon etc cake (=a sponge cake with a chocolate etc flavour) 巧克力/柠檬等蛋糕
nShe’d baked a chocolate cake for me.
a cream cake (=one with thick cream inside it) 奶油蛋糕
nI’ll get fat if I eat any more cream cakes.
COMMON ERRORSDon’t say ‘cook a cake’. Say make a cake or bake a cake.
不要说 ‘cook a cake’. 而要说 make a cake或 bake a cake.
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cake• A plastic Santa was sledging across the snow-white surface of a cake.• a birthdaycake• Each of us receives a slice of heavenlychocolatecake.• She would have been on the floor for those pastries, and after the chocolate cake.• Noreen, frankly, wanted her cake and to eat it as well.• Pour into greased and floured 9-by-13-inchcakepan.• Many cakerecipes call for all-purpose flour, but those that suggest cake flour do so for a reason.• Do you want a piece of cake?• From top, Smokedsalmonrolls with pestorice, Christmas jewel basmati salad, Basmati rice cake.• When the cake is cool, slice it across with a large knife to make two cakes.
cake of• A thin cake ofwax covered the jam to seal it.
cake2 verb
1be caked with/in somethingCOVERHARDto be covered with a layer of something soft or wet that becomes thick and hard when it dries 厚厚地涂上[沾上]某物
Our boots were caked with mud.
我们的靴子上沾满了泥。
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be caked with/in something• She took the can in her gloved hand, which was caked inblackmud.• My trouserswere caked withblood.• The left side of her face is caked withbloodied mud.• It was caked withdirt, but he slipped it on anyway.• His shoeswere caked with dirt.• Terry's elbowwas caked with dried blood.• The clothwas caked with her blood.• The hand was caked in mud, the fingershooked into a claw.
2.[intransitiveI]COVER if a substance cakes, it forms a thick hard layer when it dries 〔干后〕结成硬块