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