snack

noun

/snæk/

(informal) a small meal or amount of food, usually eaten in a hurry点心；小吃；快餐
- a mid-morning snack上午十点左右吃的点心
- I only have time for a snack at lunchtime.中午，我的时间只够吃点心。
- Do you serve bar snacks?你这儿卖不卖快餐？
- a snack lunch快餐午饭
Topics Cooking and eatinga2
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- light
- little
- small
- …
verb + snack
- eat
- get
- grab
- …
snack + noun
- food
- lunch
- meal
- …
(Australian English, informal) a thing that is easy to do易办到的事；小菜一碟
- It'll be a snack.这不过是小事一桩。

Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.

snack

verb

/snæk/

[intransitive]

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they snack	/snæk/ /snæk/
he / she / it snacks	/snæks/ /snæks/
past simple snacked	/snækt/ /snækt/
past participle snacked	/snækt/ /snækt/
-ing form snacking	/ˈsnækɪŋ/ /ˈsnækɪŋ/

to eat snacks between or instead of main meals吃点心（或快餐、小吃）
- If you snack between meals, try to avoid sugary foods like chocolate.如果你在两餐之间吃点心，尽量避开巧克力之类的含糖食品。
- snack on something It's healthier to snack on fruit rather than chocolate.作为点心，水果比巧克力更有益于健康。
- I usually have a light lunch and then snack on fruit and nuts during the afternoon.我通常是午饭稍微吃一点，然后在下午吃些水果和坚果。
Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.