breakfast

• n. 早餐；早飯
• vi. 吃早餐
• vt. 為…供應早餐

break, 打破。fast, 齋戒。原指在齋戒儀式後所吃的第一頓飯。

breakfast

breakfast: [15] Breakfast is the first food one eats in the morning, thereby literally ‘breaking’ the night’s ‘fast’. The word is first recorded in a text of 1463: ‘Expenses in breakfast, xjd’. It is a lexicalization of the phrase ‘break one’s fast’, which itself seems to have originated in the 14th century.

breakfast (n.)

mid-15c., from break (v.) + fast (n.). An Old English word for it was undernmete (see undern), also morgenmete "morning meal.". The verb is recorded from 1670s. Related: Breakfasted; breakfasting.

Spanish almuerzo "lunch," but formerly and still locally "breakfast," is from Latin admorsus, past participle of admordere "to bite into," from ad- "to" + mordere "to bite." In common with almuerzo, words for "breakfast" tend over time to shift in meaning toward "lunch;" compare French déjeuner "breakfast," later "lunch" (equivalent of Spanish desayuno "breakfast"), both from Vulgar Latin *disieiunare "to breakfast," from Latin dis- "apart, in a different direction from" + ieiunare, jejunare "fast" (see jejune; also compare dine). German Frühstück is from Middle High German vruostücke, literally "early bit."

1. Breakfast television arrived in British life precisely a decade ago.

準確地說，早間電視節目於10年前進入英國人的生活。

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2. I bet you make breakfast and wash up their plates, too.

我肯定是你做的早餐並且清洗了他們的餐具。

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3. At breakfast next morning my two grandsons were clamouring to go swimming.

第二天早飯時，我那兩個孫子嚷嚷著要去遊泳。

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4. Sylvia shook hands. "Well, you go get yourselves some breakfast."

西爾維婭擺了擺手說：“嗯，你們自己去吃些早餐吧。”

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5. A breakfast will be served to those who last out till dawn!

堅持到天亮的能吃上早餐！

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