- 1豐盛的(英式口語,多形容大餐:a slap-up meal)
A slap-up meal is a very large, very enjoyable one — the kind you sit down to when someone is treating you, or when a family is celebrating. You almost always hear it in front of a food word: a slap-up dinner, a slap-up feast, a slap-up breakfast. It is British and informal, a bit old in a warm way; American English does not really use it. Though actually it praises the size and the pleasure more than the fancy restaurant: a slap-up meal can be home cooking with too many dishes, not only a costly night out. It is not a verb. You do not 'slap up' a meal in this sense; you have a slap-up meal. And it does not mean the food was thrown together in a hurry — that would be an unlucky reading of slap. The dictionary meaning is kind: big and good.
組成A British compound of slap + up, used as an adjective before a meal. I cannot honestly say what each piece is doing here, so I will not guess.
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,摘錄並精簡格式,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。
slap-upadj
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informalExcellent, first-class.
- "Isn't she a slap-up woman, eh, now?" pursued he; and began enumerating her attractions, as a horse-jockey would the points of a favourite animal.
- 'D'ye know a slap-up sort of button, when you see it?' said the youth. 'Don't look at mine, if you ain't a judge, because these lions' heads was made for men of men of taste: not snobs.'
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