biscuit
英 ['bɪskɪt]
美 ['bɪskɪt]
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12世紀時，在一座海濱小城裏，一位粗心大意的麵包師誤將已烘焙好了的餅子再次放到烤爐內進行烘烤。當他意識到自己的過失時，已經太遲了：經過兩次烘焙的餅子變得又硬又脆。誰知，這種餅子的味道竟然還不錯！就這樣，餅幹（biscuit）誕生了。
其實，從“biscuit”一詞的字麵上，我們便能看出其做法：前綴“bis-”意為“二、兩”，單詞“cuit”則意為“焙燒過的”。
中文詞源
biscuit 餅幹bis, 二。cuit, 詞源同cook. 原指兩麵煎烤的麵包。
英文詞源
- biscuit
- biscuit: [14] Biscuit means literally ‘twicecooked’ – from the method of cooking, in which the biscuits are returned to the oven after the initial period of baking in order to become dry or crisp. The original source of the word was probably a medieval Latin *biscoctus, from bis ‘twice’ and coctus ‘cooked’, the past participle of coquere (which is related to English cook). It reached English via Old French biscut.
=> cook - biscuit (n.)
- respelled early 19c. from bisket (16c.), ultimately (besquite, early 14c.) from Old French bescuit (12c.), literally "twice cooked;" altered under influence of cognate Old Italian biscotto, both from Medieval Latin biscoctum, from Latin (panis) bis coctus "(bread) twice-baked;" see bis- + cook (v.). U.S. sense of "soft bun" is recorded from 1818.
雙語例句
- 1. He wolfed down the rest of the biscuit and cheese.
- 他把剩下的餅幹和奶酪一掃而光。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. He started to nibble his biscuit.
- 他開始啃餅幹了。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. She's done stupid things before, but this really takes the biscuit.
- 她以前做過傻事, 但這次實在太離譜了.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. Mr. Smith takes the biscuit as a story teller.
- 史密斯先生講故事是無與倫比的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 5. This biscuit eats short.
- 這種餅幹吃起來很鬆脆.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》