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Picture a soft loose mixture pressed and set into one solid flat round block. Start with the sweet baked cake; but the shape underneath — loose stuff packed into a firm flat slab — is what stretches to fish cakes, soap cakes, and even mud that 'cakes' (dries into a hard crust).
可以想成一堆鬆散的軟材料，被壓實、定形成一塊結實的扁圓塊。先從那塊甜甜的烤蛋糕出發；但底下真正撐起整個字的，是那個形…更多收起
可以想成一堆鬆散的軟材料，被壓實、定形成一塊結實的扁圓塊。先從那塊甜甜的烤蛋糕出發；但底下真正撐起整個字的，是那個形狀——鬆散的東西被壓成一塊扁實的塊狀物。正是這個形狀，延伸到魚餅、肥皂塊，甚至延伸到泥巴『結成硬殼』。原始詞典資料14 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。
cakenoun/keɪk/
- 1
A rich, sweet dessert food, typically made of flour, sugar, and eggs and baked in an oven, and often covered in icing.
- On Monday afternoon, Ronya attends a birthday party and eats cake whenever cake is presented to her.
- 2
A small mass of baked dough, especially a thin loaf from unleavened dough.
- an oatmeal cake
- a johnnycake
- 3
A thin wafer-shaped mass of fried batter; a griddlecake or pancake.
- buckwheat cakes
- 4
A block of any various dense materials.
- a cake of soap
- a cake of sand
- 5
slangSynonym of money.
- 6
slangSynonym of buttocks, especially a pair that are exceptionally plump or full.
- Since I started doing squats, I've built up some serious cake.
- 7
A multishot fireworks assembly comprising several tubes, each with a fireworks effect, lit by a single fuse.
- 8
Synonym of pie, the whole of a wealth or resource, to be divided into parts.
- I am aware of the efforts made to contest the relevance of these statistics... But you cannot get away from the fact that a low gdp means a smaller national cake and that there is less wealth to go round.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
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obsoleteslangA foolish person.
- "The Lord Mayor can say tart things," said Hobler to a scavenger. "Yes," replied the dustman, "he does say things that are tart, which is not to be wondered at when we know him to be a regular cake."
cakeverb/keɪk/
- 1
Coat (something) with a crust of solid material.
- His shoes are caked with mud.
- You will remember that Stranger Things was initially conceived as a one-off, and its success forced the Duffer Brothers to cake on endless new lore to keep the engine running.
- 2
To form into a cake, or mass.
- 3
Of blood or other liquid, to dry out and become hard.
- Once we fell asleep, and, I think, must have slept for some hours, for, when we woke, our limbs were quite stiff, and the blood from our blows and scratches had caked, and was hard and dry upon our skin.
這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：
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。