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cook (obj)kJkvto prepare (food) to be eaten by heating in a particular way, such as baking or boiling, or (of food) to be prepared in this way烹调，烧饭，做菜I don't cook meat very often. [T]我不常烧肉。He cooked us an enormous meal./He cooked an enormous meal for us. [+ two objects]他给我们准备了一顿丰盛的饭。I never bother cooking for myself--I just eat sandwiches if I'm on my own. [I]我从不费心为自己做饭----一个人时我只吃三明治。Let the fish cook for half an hour before you add the wine. [I]加酒之前先让鱼煮半个小时。How long does this cake take to cook (=to become ready to eat)? [I]蛋糕要多久才能做好?(Am infml) "Look! I've found the missing puzzle pieces.""Now we're cooking (=achieving what we want to achieve)!" [I]“看!我找到缺少的七巧板块了。”“ 这下我们成功了!”(Am infml) Jean's new band was really cooking (=playing well) at the party last night. [I]琼的新乐队在昨晚晚会上的演出很成功。(infml) If EVIDENCE or written facts or records are cooked, they are changed in order to deceive people. [T]篡改(证据、书面事实、记录等)(infml) If someone cooks the books, they dishonestly change numbers in the accounts in order to steal money from an organization.篡改帐目That's cooked his goose, hasn't it (=That's spoilt his chances of success)!这使他丧失了成功的机会是不是!(infml) If you cook up something or cook something up you invent something either dishonestly or very imaginatively.想出，策划，捏造，编造She'd cooked up some weird and wonderful scheme that was going to earn her a fortune.她想出了又怪又妙的计划来使自己发财。I got to work so late this morning I had to cook up some excuse about my car breaking down.今天早上上班这么迟，我得编造一个车子出故障的理由来。(slang)What's cooking means what's happening.发生什么事了I just saw the police arrive--what's cooking?我刚看到警察来了----发生什么事了?
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