breakfast
英 ['brekf?st]
美 ['br?kf?st]
- n. 早餐；早飯
- vi. 吃早餐
- vt. 為…供應(yīng)早餐
助記提示
1. airbnb.com : They turned a traditional Bed & Breakfast into an AirBed & Breakfast.
中文詞源
breakfast 早餐break, 打破。fast, 齋戒。原指在齋戒儀式后所吃的第一頓飯。
英文詞源
- breakfast
- breakfast: [15] Breakfast is the first food one eats in the morning, thereby literally ‘breaking’ the night’s ‘fast’. The word is first recorded in a text of 1463: ‘Expenses in breakfast, xjd’. It is a lexicalization of the phrase ‘break one’s fast’, which itself seems to have originated in the 14th century.
- breakfast (n.)
- mid-15c., from break (v.) + fast (n.). An Old English word for it was undernmete (see undern), also morgenmete "morning meal.". The verb is recorded from 1670s. Related: Breakfasted; breakfasting.
Spanish almuerzo "lunch," but formerly and still locally "breakfast," is from Latin admorsus, past participle of admordere "to bite into," from ad- "to" + mordere "to bite." In common with almuerzo, words for "breakfast" tend over time to shift in meaning toward "lunch;" compare French déjeuner "breakfast," later "lunch" (equivalent of Spanish desayuno "breakfast"), both from Vulgar Latin *disieiunare "to breakfast," from Latin dis- "apart, in a different direction from" + ieiunare, jejunare "fast" (see jejune; also compare dine). German Frühstück is from Middle High German vruostücke, literally "early bit."
雙語例句
- 1. Breakfast television arrived in British life precisely a decade ago.
- 準(zhǔn)確地說，早間電視節(jié)目于10年前進入英國人的生活。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. I bet you make breakfast and wash up their plates, too.
- 我肯定是你做的早餐并且清洗了他們的餐具。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. At breakfast next morning my two grandsons were clamouring to go swimming.
- 第二天早飯時，我那兩個孫子嚷嚷著要去游泳。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Sylvia shook hands. "Well, you go get yourselves some breakfast."
- 西爾維婭擺了擺手說：“嗯，你們自己去吃些早餐吧。”
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. A breakfast will be served to those who last out till dawn!
- 堅持到天亮的能吃上早餐！
來自柯林斯例句