Word forms: plural, 3rd person singular present tense toasts, present participle toasting, past tense, past participle toasted
1N-UNCOUNT 吐司;烤面包片Toast is bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature. 吐司;烤面包片
...a piece of toast.
一片吐司
2VERB 烤,烘(面包等) When you toast something such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp. →see usage note at:cook烤,烘(面包等)
Toast the bread lightly on both sides.
稍稍烘烤面包两面。
...a toasted sandwich.
烤三明治
3N-COUNT 干杯;祝酒 When you drink a toast to someone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success. 干杯;祝酒
Eleanor and I drank a toast to Miss Jacobs. [+ to]
我和埃莉诺向雅各布斯小姐敬酒。
At the end of the meal Burgoyne was asked to propose a toast.
5N-SING 深受敬慕的人;最受推崇的人 If someone is the toast of a place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well. 深受敬慕的人;最受推崇的人
6PHRASE [VERB inflects]完蛋,遭殃 If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed. 完蛋,遭殃 [informal]
They know how to control, restrict and, if need be, throttle access, important to newspapers and absolutely vital to radio and television. And if you don't play the game, you're toast.
If I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner toasts (which indeed does not seem quite the thing) I shall drink... to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwardsCardinal NewmanLetter Addressed to the Duke of Norfolk
Here's tae us; wha's like us? Gey few, and they're a' deidScottish toast
1bread麪包ADJECTIVE | ... OF TOAST | VERB + TOAST | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤brown, white, wholemeal, wholewheat (NAmE) 黑吐司;白吐司;全麥吐司▸➤dry不塗黃油的吐司➤burned烤焦的吐司➤buttered塗黃油的吐司▸➤cinnamon, French, Melba, etc.肉桂、法國、梅爾巴等吐司... OF TOAST➤piece, round, slice一塊吐司;一片吐司◇We'll have another round of toast, please.請給我們再拿一片吐司。VERB + TOAST➤make烤麪包片◇I'm making toast for breakfast.我在烤早餐吃的麪包片。➤butter, spread在烤麪包片上塗抹黃油◇buttered toast抹黃油的吐司◇She ate two slices of toast spread with honey.她吃了兩片塗有蜂蜜的烤麪包片。➤burn烤焦麪包片◇I can smell burned toast.我聞到麪包片烤糊的味兒。PREPOSITION➤on toast在烤麪包片上◇For lunch we had cheese on toast. (BrE) 我們午餐吃了奶酪烤麪包片。toast
noun²
2drink飲酒ADJECTIVE | VERB + TOAST | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤champagne香檳祝酒VERB + TOAST➤make, propose, raise (NAmE) 祝酒◇He raised his glass as if to make a toast.他舉起酒杯好像要祝酒。➤drink乾杯PREPOSITION➤toast to向⋯祝酒◇The bridegroom ended his speech by proposing a toast to the hosts.新郎向主持人敬酒結束了他的講話。toast
verb¹
1make sth brown and crisp by heating it烘烤ADVERB➤lightly輕微烘烤◇Toast the bread lightly on both sides.把麪包兩面都微微烘烤一下。toast
verb²
2drink to sb/sth敬酒PREPOSITION➤with以⋯祝酒◇We toasted his victory with champagne.我們用香檳為他的勝利乾杯。