| 词汇 | confection |
| 释义 | confection noun[ C ] uk /kənˈfek.ʃən/ us /kənˈfek.ʃən/ confectionnoun[C] (SWEET FOOD)formal a sweet food, especially one that is unusual or complicated: （精制的）糕点，甜点，甜食 This moist, beautifully decorated confection is perfect for a special birthday. She makes 25 varieties of traditional sweets and at first struggled to persuade local supermarkets to sell her confections. Related word confectionery Dessert was a coconut-filled confection enrobed in chocolate. Her confections are always as stunning to look at as they are delicious to eat. Marzipan is a confection consisting primarily of sugar and ground almonds. Cakes angel food cake angelica bake sale baked goods Bakewell pudding devil's food cake donut donut hole doughnut doughnut hole Madeira cake madeleine malt loaf marble cake marchpane sponge cake sponge finger sticky bun stollen streusel confectionnoun[C] (CREATION)often disapproving something that has been created, especially something that has a lot of complicated details or decoration, or seems artificial or false: She was wearing some sort of flouncy chiffon confection with frills blowing in the breeze. St Basil's Cathedral is a fairy-tale confection that graces the eastern end of the square. Related words confect confected The pier is a wonderful Victorian confection that reaches over 2,000 feet out into the sea. The movie is a revoltingly saccharine confection in which a tough career woman has to look after some orphans. Creating and producing anti-creative artefact attribute attribute something to someone bang something out bash crank generativity grind something out handmade knock knock off (something) rig roll (something) out rollout run something up rush something out sand-cast stitch yield On the table were all the dishes, confections, and beverages preferred by our parents. She pulled his hand from behind his back and there was revealed the missing box of confections. She was exceedingly fond of chocolates and other sweets, and was never without some confection in her possession. The state dining-table was beautifully decorated with ornaments of gold and silver, dishes, glasses, flowers, bouquets, etc., and was fairly loaded down with fruits, berries, ice-cream, confections, and wines. We were again invited to an entertainment, at which many different kinds of confections were served up. Examples of confectionconfection He offers new examples of his own confection as models for new composition, a prescriptive rhetorical strategy. Certain basic questions remain unanswered (how documents were drawn up and written, the role the petitioner played in their confection), but the investigation offers many interesting results. It comes from blood collected in slaughterhouses, citrated and sent to factories where the albumen is extracted and used in confections. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have seen a lot of questions about whether chocolate biscuits are confections or biscuits. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The range of industry stretches from paint to a well-known chocolate confection which helps us to work, rest and play. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Is the only advice he can give them that they must never eat any confections made with albumen from blood? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 All those aspects are entirely missing from the confection that is the dome. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The citizens charter is nothing more than a glossy confection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 But the essential elements of the confection are clear. 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 I can think of few worse insults than that—the great whales turned into a confection for fat kids. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 So fudge is a necessary confection. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 It is a very sweet, spreadable, marshmallow-like confection. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A variety of candies, desserts, and confections are made with caramel: brittles, nougats, pralines, crme brle, crme caramel, and caramel apples. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. A chocolate bar is a confection in bar form comprising some or all of the following components: cocoa solids, cocoa butter, sugar, and/or milk. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. 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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