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/ˈbrekfəst/
The first meal of the day, which you eat in the morning.
早餐
複數 breakfasts
核心畫面
You can picture 'breakfast' very simply: the first food of the day, eaten in the morning — the meal that breaks the long, foodless stretch of sleep.
From the word’s history
Historically a compound of 'break' + 'fast' — the meal that breaks the overnight fast.
這個字本來就是 break（打破）加 fast（禁食／斷食）合成的：打破整夜沒吃東西那段空腹的一餐。
Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), 'breakfast'
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
breakfastnoun/ˈbɹɛk.fəst/
- 1
The first meal of the day, usually eaten in the morning.
- You should put more protein in her breakfast so she will grow.
- I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
- 2
A meal consisting of food normally eaten in the morning, which may typically include eggs, sausages, toast, bacon, etc.
- We serve breakfast all day.
- 3
The celebratory meal served after a wedding (and occasionally after other solemnities e.g. a funeral).
- 4
A meal eaten after a period of (now often religious) fasting.
- The wolves will get a breakfast by my death.
breakfastverb/ˈbɹɛk.fəst/
- 1
To eat the morning meal.
- May 14, 1689, Matthew Prior, epistle to Fleetwood Shephard Esq. First, sir, I read, and then I breakfast.
- “Oh, he set off the moment he had breakfasted![…]”
- 2
To serve breakfast to.
- By seven-thirty she had breakfasted them, provided each with a packed lunch and Thermoses of coffee and tea
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。