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- a thin, flat cake of batter, fried and turned in a pan and typically rolled up with a sweet or savoury filling薄烤饼, 薄煎饼。
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- (亦作pancake make-up)[mass noun] make-up consisting of a flat solid layer of compressed powder, widely used in the theatre(剧院里广泛使用的化妆用的)湿粉饼。
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- no obj.(of an aircraft) make a pancake landing(飞机)平坠降落。
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- with obj.(of a pilot) cause (an aircraft) to make such a landing(飞行员)驾机平坠降落:
he pancaked it in about twenty metres.
他在约20米内驾机平坠降落。
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- informal flatten or become flattened〈非正式〉使平展; 把…压平; 变平:
with obj. Hurley's car was pancaked.赫尔利的车被压扁了。
短语
(as) flat as a pancake
- completely flat完全扁平的; 非常平的。
词源
late Middle English: from PAN 1 + CAKE .