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

• Graduation speeches are a bit like wedding toasts.
  这句话的意思是：毕业典礼有点像婚礼祝酒。
• And a reception with toasts drunk to the bride in Miss pitty's parlor amid happy friends would have been a joy to him.
  要是能在皮蒂小姐的客厅里举行个招待会，请朋友们来喝喝酒祝贺新娘，那他会更高兴听。
• Toasts were exchanged between hosts and ourselves, conveying wishes of health, expanded commerce, improved US-China relations, friendship, etc.
  我们和主办者相互敬酒，传达对于健康、扩大商务、发展中美关系、友谊等等的祝愿。
• 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。
• Evenly toasts a variety of bread products including bagels, texas toast, waffles, and english muffins;
  均匀烘烤各类面包类产品，包括面包片、小餐包、硬面包圈、华夫饼、英式松饼等；
• 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。
• And the congratulations afterward and the kissing and the toasts and the dancing& all, all like a dream.
  然后是祝贺，是干杯，是亲吻，是跳舞&一切的一切都像是在梦中。
• As a good guest, it is appropriate to return the toasts on a somewhat reciprocal frequency, which in this instance, was also countless times.
  作为嘉宾，我应当按照相应的频率回敬他，因此，我也举了无数次杯。
• 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。
• Origins: Many explanations have been advanced to explain our custom of clinking glasses when participating in toasts.
  起源：喝酒碰杯的习俗有很多种解释。