toasts

英 [təʊsts]

美 [toʊsts]

n.  烤面包片; 吐司; 干杯; 祝酒; 敬酒; (在某领域)广受赞誉的人，有口皆碑的人
v.  为…举杯敬酒; 为…干杯; 烤(尤指面包); 把…烤得焦黄; 烤火; 取暖; 使暖和
toast的第三人称单数和复数

柯林斯词典

• N-UNCOUNT 吐司;烤面包片
  Toastis bread which has been cut into slices and made brown and crisp by cooking at a high temperature.
  1. ...a piece of toast.
     一片吐司
• VERB 烤，烘(面包等)
  When youtoastsomething such as bread, you cook it at a high temperature so that it becomes brown and crisp.
  1. Toast the bread lightly on both sides.
     稍稍烘烤面包两面。
  2. ...a toasted sandwich.
     烤三明治
• N-COUNT 干杯;祝酒
  When you drink atoast tosomeone or something, you drink some wine or another alcoholic drink as a symbolic gesture, in order to show your appreciation of them or to wish them success.
  1. Eleanor and I drank a toast to Miss Jacobs...
     我和埃莉诺向雅各布斯小姐敬酒。
  2. At the end of the meal Burgoyne was asked to propose a toast.
     用餐终了，伯戈因被邀请致祝酒词。
• VERB 为…干杯;向…祝酒
  When youtoastsomeone or something, you drink a toast to them.
  1. Party officials and generals toasted his health...
     政党官员与军队将领为他的健康举杯祝酒。
  2. They toasted her in champagne.
     他们以香槟为她干杯。
• N-SING 深受敬慕的人;最受推崇的人
  If someone isthe toast ofa place, they are very popular and greatly admired there, because they have done something very successfully or well.
  1. She was the toast of Paris.
     她是巴黎最受推崇的人。
• PHRASE 完蛋，遭殃
  If someoneis toast, you mean that they are certain to be defeated or destroyed.
  1. They know how to control, restrict and, if need be, throttle access, important to newspapers and absolutely vital to radio and television. And if you don't play the game, you're toast.
     他们知道怎样控制、限制信息获取途径，而且如果需要，还会将其完全阻断，而这些途径对报纸来说很重要，对广播、电视更是极其关键。如果你不遵守游戏规则，你就完蛋了。

双语例句

• This romantic sentiment may sound like the message on a greeting card, but it now makes its way into wedding speeches and toasts.
  这句情话感觉象贺卡上的短语，实际上，这句话进入了婚礼，也成了祝酒词。
• It is traditional to make toasts on New Year's Eve as well.
  在除夕之夜烤制面包也是一项传统。
• The dinner was an extremely pompous occasion, with speeches and formal toasts.
  这个晚宴是个非常气派的场合，又有致辞又有正式的祝酒。
• One may propose a toast at any time throughout the meal, and making several toasts to one person is acceptable as well.
  在宴席上饮酒的过程中，随时都可以敬酒，而且可以向同一个人多次敬酒。
• It needs to happen before the toasts and speeches.
  这必须在敬酒和演讲之前。
• Prior to such augmentation, toasts pleased only four of the five senses;
  增加了这些，祝酒使气氛好了五分之四。
• He spoke at length and with a certain degree of inspiration, but somewhere along the way I sensed that the multiple toasts of Maotai were beginning to impact his judgement.
  接下来，他高谈阔论，情绪已经亢奋到了一定程度。但从中，我感觉到，干过好几杯茅台酒后，他的判断力开始受到影响。
• The Italian guests struggled at times to keep up with the rapid sequence of toasts their host offered with French champagne and Italian red wine.
  有时候，中国主人接二连三的敬酒（法国香槟与意大利红酒），让意大利客人有点招架不住。
• For a foreigner, the practice of surrounding toasts here can be embarrassing.
  在外国人看来，这里转圈敬酒的习俗颇令人尴尬。
• Too often at banquets in China he has watched first-growth claret being downed in joyless, glass-draining toasts, well into the small hours.
  在中国的酒会上，他常常见到，原装的波尔多红酒，在短短的一会儿的时间内，就被人们一饮而尽。