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- a small amount of food eaten between meals(两餐之间的)点心, 小吃。
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- a light meal that is eaten in a hurry or in a casual manner快餐。
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- Austral. informal a thing that is easy to accomplish〈澳, 非正式〉容易办到的事:
it'll be a snack.
这是小菜一碟。
词源
Middle 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.