1 N-UNCOUNT 吐司;烤面包片 Toast is bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature. 吐司;烤面包片
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...a piece of toast.
一片吐司
2 VERB 烤,烘(面包等) When you toast something such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp. →see usage note at: cook 烤,烘(面包等)
3 N-COUNT 干杯;祝酒 When you drink a toast to someone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success. 干杯;祝酒
SYN tribute, drink, compliment, salute
4 VERB 为…干杯;向…祝酒 When you toast someone or something, you drink a toast to them. 为…干杯;向…祝酒
SYN drink to, honour, pledge to, salute
5 N-SING 深受敬慕的人;最受推崇的人 If someone is the toast of a place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well. 深受敬慕的人;最受推崇的人
SYN favourite, celebrity, darling, talk
6 PHRASE [VERB inflects] 完蛋,遭殃 If someone is toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed. 完蛋,遭殃 [informal]
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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。
Quotations
If I am obliged to bring religion into after-dinner toasts (which indeed does not seem quite the thing) I shall drink... to Conscience first, and to the Pope afterwards Cardinal Newman Letter Addressed to the Duke of Norfolk
Here's tae us; wha's like us?
Gey few, and they're a' deid Scottish toast
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