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- a meal or gathering at which meat, fish, or other food is cooked out of doors on a rack over an open fire or on a special appliance户外烧烤。
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- a metal appliance used for the preparation of food at a barbecue, or a brick fireplace containing such an appliance（烧烤用）烤架, 烤炉。
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- mass noun N. Amer. food cooked in such a way〈北美〉烤制食品。
(barbecues, barbecued, barbecuing)with obj.
- cook (meat, fish, or other food) on a barbecue烤（肉、鱼等食物）。
USAGE
Barbecue is often misspelled as barbeque. This form arises understandably from the word's pronunciation and from the informal abbreviations BBQ and Bar-B-Q. Although almost a quarter of citations in the Oxford English Corpus are for the -que spelling, it is not accepted in standard English.
词源
mid 17th cent.: from Spanish barbacoa, perhaps from Arawak barbacoa 'wooden frame posts'. The original sense was 'wooden framework for sleeping on， or for storing meat or fish to be dried'.