| 词汇 | gingerbread |
| 释义 | gingerbread noun[ U ] uk /ˈdʒɪn.dʒə.bred/ us /ˈdʒɪn.dʒɚ.bred/ a type of cake, usually very dark brown and soft, that contains ginger（通常指深褐色松软的）姜饼 DebbiSmirnoff/E+/GettyImages Cakes angel food cake angelica bake sale baked goods Bakewell pudding cupcake devil's food cake donut donut hole doughnut Madeira cake madeleine malt loaf marble cake marchpane sponge cake sponge finger sticky bun stollen streusel gingerbread | American Dictionarygingerbread noun[ U ] us/ˈdʒɪn·dʒərˌbred/ a type of cake or cookie that contains ginger: a gingerbread man (= a spicy gingerbread cookie shaped like a person) Examples of gingerbreadgingerbread Boone was carrying ten packages of biscuits and ten packages of gingerbread. Another fifty packages of biscuits and fifty packages of gingerbread were discovered in his home. Gingerbread (2000) highlights the shortage of places in rural areas which may be inherently hard to resolve. For those of us who live in prudent local authority areas, the safety net takes some of the gilt off the gingerbread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The gilt has quickly been stripped off the gingerbread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Therefore, so far as the financial position is concerned, the whole of the gilt has been washed off the gingerbread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Did he, therefore, ignore inflation, or did he merely omit to mention the price of putting the gilt on the gingerbread? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 As the debate has worn on, however, some of the gilt has come off the gingerbread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Let a man get really wet for three days and nights, and the gilt is very quickly off the gingerbread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The gilt was taken off the police gingerbread throughout the country by the imposing of parsimonious fines which provided no deterrent to wrongdoing. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I often feel that some people like to take the gilt off the gingerbread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It will take the gilt off the gingerbread, so to speak. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a wood of which they seem to have lost sight in these debates because of a number of relatively frivolous gingerbread trees. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They had over-gingered the gingerbread. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Gingerbread also argued that for lone parents who had recently been through a separation pressure could add to an individual's stress. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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