核心畫面
Bread held close to heat until both sides turn brown, dry and crisp. Everything else in this word grows out of that one scene: the browning by heat, the warmth that comes off it, and — from a much older custom — the piece of toast that used to be dropped into a cup of wine before people drank a health together.
可以想成一片麵包被放到火或熱源前面，兩面慢慢烤到變褐、變乾、變脆——那種剛烤好、還冒著熱氣、摸起來暖暖的樣子。這個字…更多收起
可以想成一片麵包被放到火或熱源前面，兩面慢慢烤到變褐、變乾、變脆——那種剛烤好、還冒著熱氣、摸起來暖暖的樣子。這個字的其他用法幾乎都從這個畫面延伸出去：有「用熱把東西烤褐」的動作，有「烤過的東西暖呼呼」的觸感；而舉杯祝賀那一支，來自舊時把一小塊調味烤麵包丟進酒杯裡再一起乾杯的習慣。原始詞典資料15 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。
toastnoun詞源 1/təʊst/
- 1
Bread that has been toasted (cooked lightly by browning).
- I ate a piece of toast for breakfast.
- This toast and marmalade tastes heavenly.
- 2
A proposed salutation (e.g. saying "cheers") while drinking alcohol.
- At the reception, there were many toasts from the well-wishers.
- The evening meal was "a repast of most recherché description," involving an endless series of toasts to almost everybody (with the notable exception of the other railway already serving Brentford, which came in for some hard knocks from various speakers).
- 3
A person, group, or notable object to which a salutation with alcohol is made; a person or group held in similar esteem.
- He was the toast of high society.
- Josephine Baker did not become the toast of Paris by just shaking her booty for some theater gypsies as a party wound down.
- 4
slangSomething that is irreparably damaged or used up, especially when destroyed by heat or fire; something which has been burnt to a crisp or incinerated.
- The metal frame survived the fire, but the plastic and rubber bits are toast.
- 5
slangSomething that will be no more; something subject to impending destruction, harm or injury.
- to become/be toast
- If I ever get my hands on the guy that stole my wallet, he’s toast!
- 6
slangentertainmentlifestylemusicA type of extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- 7
obsoleteslangAn old toast ("a lively fellow who drinks excessively").
- 8
computingengineeringgraphical-user-interfaceA transient, informational pop-up overlay, less interactive than a snackbar.
- With the new Windows Push Notification Service, you can remotely send notifications from a cloud-based web service. In Windows 8, the majority of the Toast messages are standard duration toasts.
另外 1 個記錄的用法
- 9
A piece of toast.
- Go, fetch me a quart of Sacke, put a toſt in't.
toastverb詞源 2/təʊst/
- 1
To cook lightly by browning by means of direct exposure to a fire or other heat source.
- We used to enjoy toasting marshmallows around the campfire.
- 2
To cook lightly by browning under a grill or in a toaster; to grill.
- Top with cheese and toast under the grill for a few minutes.
- 3
To engage in a salutation, often with raising of the drinking vessel, while drinking an alcoholic beverage in honor of someone or something.
- We toasted the happy couple many times over the course of the evening.
- You all have achieved so much together thus far, so I think that deserves a toast! Let's toast!
- 4
To warm thoroughly.
- I toasted my feet by the fire.
- 5
slangentertainmentlifestylemusicTo perform an extemporaneous narrative poem or rap.
- Toasting over a record does more than change the way that record is perceived by the audience: it creates a new piece of music with joint creative authorship, although the law does not support this characterization.
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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。