| 词汇 | sweetmeat |
| 释义 | sweetmeat noun[ C ] old-fashioneduk /ˈswiːt.miːt/ us /ˈswiːt.miːt/ a small piece of sweet food, made of or covered in sugar甜食，蜜饯，果脯，糖果 Sweets almond paste baking chocolate barley sugar bitter chocolate bittersweet chocolate confectioner confectionery cooking chocolate cotton candy couverture licorice liquorice lollipop lolly marchpane sherbet snow cone sourball spun sugar stick of rock Examples of sweetmeatsweetmeat When one offers sweetmeats, one does so 'in order to destroy hunger and disease (ksudh-roga vin-san-ya)'. Other possessions included three silver tankards, eighteen silver spoons and three sweetmeat silver spoons. The difference in these cakes, in their sweetmeats, and their elder wine, is that there is a dash of spice about them not ordinarily met with. It is on the more expensive brands of chocolates and on the huge consumption of candy and other sweetmeats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 One order refers to homeworking in: "the manufacture of chocolates or sweetmeats, and any work incidental thereto". From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The sugar position, actual and prospective, is not such that any additional issues of sugar for the manufacture of sweetmeats can, at present, be contemplated. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Actual and prospective sugar supplies will not permit of increased issues of sugar being made to the manufacturers of sweetmeats. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I interpret it as the collective name for sweetmeats and confections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Surely they have had a chat about this nice little sweetmeat which is to be handed to them. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In the laundry industry and in the sweetmeat industry you get boys and girls started just after they have left school. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Take the ordinary sort of confectionery or small sweetmeat shop. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 They bought some marzipan or other sweetmeat for 10,000 marks, and at the given moment they sold the sweetmeats for 100,000 marks. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I may give as an example interference with small private traders, such as the prohibition of the sale of sweetmeats in theatres. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I do not want people to get swept away with sweetmeats and chocolates. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is recognised that the existing shortage of sweetmeats caused by the inadequacy of the supplies of raw materials, particularly of glucose, occasions much hardship to small retailers. 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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