n.蛋糕；块状物
cake用作名词的基本意思是“糕,糕饼”,引申可表示类似糕饼的食物或块状物。
cake作“糕,糕饼”解时,既可用作可数名词,也可用作不可数名词。“一块蛋糕”常用a piece of cake来表示。作“饼状食物”“块状物”解时,一般只用作可数名词。
cake还可用作单位词,意思是“块”,其后接of表示数量。修饰不可数名词表示复数意义时, cake须用其复数形式cakes。
a piece of cake还常引申指“容易〔轻松〕的事情”。例如:This is only a piece of cake for her.这对她来说简直是小菜一碟。This job is anything but a piece of cake.这份差事决不轻松。
cake有时还可用作动词,意思是“(使)结块”“(使)胶凝”。用作及物动词时,常用于be ～ed结构中。例如:Blood from the wound had caked on his face.伤口的血在他脸上结成了硬块。Her shoes were caked with mud.她的鞋上沾满了泥。Snow was caked high along the streets.街道旁积着高高的雪堆。
