- a baked dish of fruit, or meat and vegetables, typically with a top and base of pastry馅饼。
短语
as - as pie
- informal very -〈非正式〉非常：
using the camera was as easy as pie.
使用相机非常容易。
(as) nice （或sweet） as pie
- extremely pleasant or polite极令人愉快的; 极有礼貌的。
a piece （或slice） of the pie
- a share of an amount of money or business available to be claimed or distributed（等待领取或分配的）金钱或业务份额：
orchestras have seen cultural rivals get a bigger piece of the pie.
管弦乐队发现其文化竞争对手占据了更大的一份市场份额。
pie in the sky
- informal used to describe or refer to something that is pleasant to contemplate but is very unlikely to be realized〈非正式〉渺茫的希望; 不能实现的好事。
词源
Middle English: probably the same word as PIE2, the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.
- used in names of birds that resemble the magpie, especially in having black-and-white plumage, e.g. sea-pie, tree pie［用在跟喜鹊相似的鸟类名称之中, 尤其是有黑白相间羽毛的鸟类, 如sea-pie, tree pie］…鹊。
词源
Middle English: from Old French, from Latin pica 'magpie' （related to picus 'green woodpecker'）.