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Toasty means warm in a pleasant, way — the warmth you want, not the heat you are suffering from.
Toasty toasty means意思是 warm溫暖 in a pleasant, cosy way那種舒服、溫馨的溫暖——the warmth you want你想要的那種暖,not the heat you are suffering from而不是讓你受不了的那種熱。
A room with the heating on is toasty. Your bed on a cold morning is toasty. Feet in thick socks are toasty.
A room with the heating on開著暖氣的房間 is toasty是toasty的。Your bed on a cold morning冷天早上的被窩 is toasty是toasty的。Feet in thick socks穿著厚襪子的腳 are toasty是toasty的。
The feeling behind the word is comfort and safety: warm enough to relax. It is a friendly, casual word, the kind you say to family, not the kind you write in a report. English speakers often stretch it a little further with 'nice and toasty' or 'toasty warm', which say the same thing twice on purpose because it sounds .
The feeling behind the word這個字背後的感覺 is comfort and safety是舒適和安心:warm enough to relax暖到可以放鬆下來。It這個字 is a friendly, casual word是一個親切、隨性的字,the kind you say to family是那種你會對家人說的字,not the kind you write in a report不是那種會寫進報告裡的字。English speakers英語使用者 often stretch it a little further常常把它講得更誇張一點,with 'nice and toasty' or 'toasty warm'用'nice and toasty'或'toasty warm',which say the same thing twice on purpose這是故意把同一件事講兩次,because it sounds cosy因為這樣聽起來更溫馨。
It comes from toast: bread warmed by fire.
It這個字 comes from toast來自toast這個字:bread warmed by fire用火烤過的麵包。
There is a second, rarer use, closer to the bread meaning — food or a smell described as toasty means it has that browned, nutty quality, like coffee or roasted nuts. Coffee people use it a lot.
There is a second, rarer use還有第二種比較少見的用法,closer to the bread meaning比較接近麵包的原意——food or a smell described as toasty食物或氣味被形容成toasty,means意思是 it has that browned, nutty quality它有那種烤得焦香、堅果般的特質,like coffee or roasted nuts像咖啡或烤過的堅果。Coffee people咖啡愛好者 use it a lot很常用這個說法。
But if a student meets 'toasty', it will almost always be the warm-and-comfortable meaning.
But但 if a student meets 'toasty'如果學生遇到'toasty'這個字,it will almost always be幾乎都會是 the warm-and-comfortable meaning「溫暖舒服」的那個意思。
原始詞典資料3 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。
toastyadj/ˈtoʊsti/
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Resembling or characteristic of toast.
- The toasty smell of baked baguettes pulled out of the oven, of vanilla, butter and sugar from the pastries, resonated in the air.
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Pleasantly warm.
- […] would you want to go to the expense of setting up a furnace in the cellar? It would make the whole house toasty warm; […]
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。