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单词 gingerbread
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gingerbread

/ˈdʒɪndʒəbred/
noun
mass noun
1
cake made with treacle or syrup and flavoured with ginger
姜饼。
1.1
fancy decoration, especially on a building
(尤指建筑物上的)别致装饰:

as modifier a high-gabled gingerbread house.

一幢有高高的山墙、外部装饰过分雕琢的房屋。

短语

take the gilt off the gingerbread

make something no longer attractive or desirable
使不再有吸引力(或值得想望)。
词源
Middle English (originally denoting preserved ginger), from Old French gingembrat, from medieval Latin gingibratum, from gingiber (see GINGER). The change in the ending in the 15th cent. was due to association with BREAD.
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