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- an item of soft sweet food made from a mixture of flour, fat, eggs, sugar, and other ingredients, baked and typically iced or decorated糕; 蛋糕; 糕饼：
a fruit cake
一个水果蛋糕
as modifier a cake shop糕饼店
mass noun a mouthful of cake.一口蛋糕。
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- an item of savoury food formed into a flat round shape, and typically baked or fried（尤指烘焙或油炸的）饼状食物：
crab cakes.
蟹饼。
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- a flattish compact mass of something, especially soap块状物（尤指肥皂）：
a cake of soap.
一块肥皂。
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- with modifier
the cake
figurative the amount of money or assets available in a particular context and regarded as something to be divided up or shared〈喻〉（某特定情境下被视为可分割或共享的）钱或资产总额： you have not received a fair slice of the education cake.
你没有从教育这个蛋糕中分得合理的一份。
with obj.(一般作be caked)
1- (of a thick or sticky substance that hardens when dry) cover and become encrusted on (the surface of an object)（干后变硬的厚物或粘物）在（物体表面）结壳; 使结块：
a pair of boots caked with mud.
一双积结着厚泥的靴子。
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- no obj.(of a thick or sticky substance) dry or harden into a solid mass（厚物, 粘物）结块：
the blood under his nose was beginning to cake.
他鼻子下的血开始结块。
短语
cakes and ale
- dated merrymaking〈旧〉寻欢作乐。
a piece of cake
- informal something easily achieved〈非正式〉容易的事：
I never said that training him would be a piece of cake.
我从未说过对他进行训练会是小菜一碟。
sell like hot cakes
- informal be sold quickly and in large quantities〈非正式〉销路很好; 卖得快又多。
you can't have your cake and eat it (too)
- proverb you can't enjoy both of two desirable but mutually exclusive alternatives〈谚〉两者不可兼得。
词源
Middle English (denoting a small flat bread roll)： of Scandinavian origin; related to Swedish kaka and Danish kage.