toast

• n. 干杯；烤面包；接受敬酒的人；（在某领域）广受赞誉的人
• vt. 向…祝酒，为…干杯
• vi. 烤火，取暖；使暖和；烘烤（面包片等）

来自 古法 语 toster, 烤火 ， 烤 面包， -st, 过去 分词 格， 来 自拉 丁语 torrere, 燃烧 ， 词 源同 torrid,terracotta.拼写比较 roast,roster.后引申词义干杯，祝酒，致辞等，最初用于祝愿漂亮女 人或受欢迎的女人永远健康美丽，据说是来自中世纪流传的一个小故事，在英国著名的巴斯 温泉度假村，有一位美女在泡温泉，然后一个绅士（或假绅士真色狼）想去搭讪这个美女， 于是就想出了一个妙招，拿起一个杯子在美女沐浴过的水池里面舀了一杯水，然后说，您真 美丽，祝您永远健康，潜台词就是我是真的仰慕您的美丽，您的洗澡水都让我如此着迷，但 故事到此结束了。故事虽然美丽，但实际情况更可能是来自面包的比喻义，因这种面包当时 用于增加酒的香味，因此，举杯前说一段祝酒辞能更好的增加宴会的品味。

1. slices of bread that have been toasted

2. a celebrity who receives much accalim and attention;

"he was the toast of the town"

3. a person in desperate straits; someone doomed;

"I'm a goner if this plan doesn't work"

"one mistake and you're toast"

4. a drink in honor of or to the health of a person or event

toast

toast: [14] Toast comes via Old French toster ‘roast, grill’ from Vulgar Latin *tostāre, a derivative of the past participle of Latin torrēre ‘parch’ (source of English torrid). Its use as a noun, meaning ‘toasted bread’, dates from the 15th century. It was common to put sippets or croutons of spiced toast into drinks to improve their flavour, and it was the custom of gallants in the 17th century, when (as they frequently did) they drank the health of ladies, to say that the name of the lady in question enhanced the flavour of their drink better than any toast.

That is supposedly the origin of the use of the term toast for ‘drinking someone’s health’.
=> thirst, torrent, torrid

toast (v.1)

"to brown with heat," late 14c., from Old French toster "to toast, to grill, roast, burn" (12c.), from Vulgar Latin *tostare (source of Italian tostare, Spanish tostar), frequentative of Latin torrere (past participle tostus) "to parch" (see terrain). Related: Toasted; toasting.

toast (v.2)

"to propose or drink a toast," 1700, from toast (n.1). This probably is the source of the Jamaican and U.S. black word meaning "extemporaneous narrative poem or rap" (1962). Related: Toasted; toasting.

toast (n.1)

"a call to drink to someone's health," 1700 (but said by Steele, 1709, to date to the reign of Charles II), originally referring to the beautiful or popular woman whose health is proposed and drunk. The custom apparently has its origin in the use of spiced toast (n.2) to flavor drink, the lady being regarded as figuratively adding piquancy to the wine in which her health was drunk. Steele's story ["Tatler," No. 24] is that an (unnamed) beauty of the day was taking the cold waters at Bath, when a gentleman dipped his cup in the water and drank it to her health; another in his company wittily (or drunkenly) replied that, while he did not care for the drink, he would gladly enjoy the toast. Meaning "one whose health is proposed and drunk to" is from 1746. Toast-master attested from 1749.

toast (n.2)

"piece of bread browned by fire or dry heat," early 15c., from toast (v.1); originally as something added to wine, ale, etc. From 17c. in the modern sense as something eaten on its own with a spread. Slang meaning "a goner, person or thing already doomed or destroyed" is recorded by 1987, perhaps from notion of computer circuits being "fried," and with unconscious echoes of earlier figurative phrase to be had on toast (1886) "to be served up for eating."

bake, roast, toast

这些动词均有"烘，烤"之意。

bake： 指在烤炉里，烘烤，不与火直接接触，用持续的干热，缓慢地烘烤任何食物。

roast： 一般指在火上烤大块的肉或整只牲畜或家禽。

toast： 侧重通过烘烤使烘烤之物变成褐色，尤指烘面包、熏肉等。

Across Britain, burnt toast will be served to mothers in bed this morning as older sons and daughters rush to deliver their supermarket bunches of flowers.

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Since that first repair job, a broken air-conditioner, a non-functioning washer and a non-toasting toaster have been fixed.

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They got parts from a junkyard, non-toasting toaster have been fixed.

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This means that people should avoid crisping their roast potatoes, spurn thin-crust pizzas and only easily toast their bread.

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cheese on toast

烤面包片加奶酪

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a piece of toast

一块烤面包片

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two slices/rounds of toast

两片 / 两整片烤面包片

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I'd like to propose a toast to the bride and groom.

我提议为新娘新郎干杯。

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The committee drank a toast to the new project.

委员会为这项新计划干杯。

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The performance made her the toast of the festival.

她的演出使她在艺术节中备受推崇。

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One mistake and you're toast.

要是出一次错，你就完了。

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The happy couple were toasted in champagne.

人们举起香槟酒为这对幸福的伉俪干杯。

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We toasted the success of the new company.

我们为新公司的成功干杯。

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a toasted sandwich

烤过的三明治

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Place under a hot grill until the nuts have toasted.

把这些坚果放在高温烤架下面烤熟。

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...a piece of toast.

一片吐司

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Toast the bread lightly on both sides.

稍稍烘烤面包两面。

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...a toasted sandwich.

烤三明治

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Eleanor and I drank a toast to Miss Jacobs...

我和埃莉诺向雅各布斯小姐敬酒。

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At the end of the meal Burgoyne was asked to propose a toast.

用餐终了，伯戈因被邀请致祝酒词。

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Party officials and generals toasted his health...

政党官员与军队将领为他的健康举杯祝酒。

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They toasted her in champagne.

他们以香槟为她干杯。

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She was the toast of Paris.

她是巴黎最受推崇的人。

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They know how to control, restrict and, if need be, throttle access, important to newspapers and absolutely vital to radio and television. And if you don't play the game, you're toast.

他们知道怎样控制、限制信息获取途径，而且如果需要，还会将其完全阻断，而这些途径对报纸来说很重要，对广播、电视更是极其关键。如果你不遵守游戏规则，你就完蛋了。

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He filled everyone's cup and proposed a toast to the guests.

他给每个人满上了酒,建议为来宾们干一杯.

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I dropped my toast, but luckily it fell right side up.

我把吐司掉到地上了, 不过幸好它正面朝上.

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I had toast and marmalade this morning.

今天早晨我吃的是烤面包加果酱.

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We had toast and jelly at breakfast.

我们早餐吃的是烤面包和果冻.

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She spread the toast thinly with raspberry jam.

她在烤面包片上塗了薄薄的一层山莓酱.

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I ate two slices of toast.

我吃了两片吐司.

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