recipe

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re·ci·pe /ˈresəpi/ S3 noun

1 DFC[countableC] a set of instructions for cooking a particular type of food 烹饪法；食谱

recipe for

a recipe for tomato soup

番茄汤的做法

a recipe book

一本烹饪书

2 be a recipe for something CAUSEto be likely to cause a particular result, often a bad one 可能会造成某事〔常指坏的结果〕

She said that five small boys on skis was a recipe for disaster, not a holiday.

她说五个来滑雪的小男孩就不是来度假的，而是来闯祸的。

Examples from the Corpus

be a recipe for something• Sound accounting advice will make your business; lack of good accounting advice is a recipe for financial disaster.• A plentiful supply of anything is a recipe for disaster.• Learning from experience is a recipe for continuous improvement.• Here are recipes for some of the updated versions of macaroni and cheese.• Nationalist plans for independence are a recipe for weakness and isolation.• The latter is a recipe for chaos, anarchy and mutual extinction.• Three managers and three chairmen in 18 months is a recipe for football disaster.• I think the new regulations are a recipe for economic disaster.• Its ads, coupled with diet industry ads and media images that promote slenderness, are a recipe for bulimia.

Examples from the Corpus

recipe• The 45 recipes, developed and explained by Bird, are relatively simple.• I'm not a great cook, but I can follow a recipe pretty well.• Breadcrumb recipes are welcome but why not stretch to bulgur, rice, millet?• rabbit pie made to a traditional country recipe• Nutrition information is available for existing recipes and can be figured for any added recipe.• I've found a really great recipe for barbecue sauce.• Remember, nothing here is offered as a blueprint or recipe.• My Mum has the recipe for a really delicious prawn curry.• Commercial sauerkraut is very salty so there is no additional salt in the recipe.• This soup is really good - you must give me the recipe.• Could you give me the recipe for that chocolate cake?• It might be difficult, very difficult, to reproduce the recipe exactly.• The recipes of each sound temptingly exotic and very original.

recipe for• a recipe for tomato soup

Origin recipe

(1300-1400) Latin “take!”, from recipere; → RECEIVE

Chinese

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