baker
英 ['be?k?]
美 ['bek?]
助記提示
baker：焙烤兒(焙烤的人)
1. bake => baker.
英文詞源
- baker (n.)
- Old English b?cere "baker," agent noun from bacan "to bake" (see bake (v.)). In the Middle Ages, the craft had two divisions, braun-bakeres and whit-bakeres.
White bakers shall bake no hors brede..broune bakers shall bake whete brede as it comyth grounde fro the mylle withoute ony bultyng of the same. Also the seid broune bakers shall bake hors brede of clene benys and pesyn, And also brede that is called housholdersbrede. [Letterbook in the City of London Records Office, Guildhall, 1441]
Baker's dozen "thirteen" is from 1590s.
These dealers [hucksters] ... on purchasing their bread from the bakers, were privileged by law to receive thirteen batches for twelve, and this would seem to have been the extent of their profits. Hence the expression, still in use, "A baker's dozen." [H.T. Riley, "Liber Albus," 1859]
雙語例句
- 1. They're freshly baked. I fetched them from the baker's this morning.
- 它們是剛出爐的。我早上去面包房買回來的。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Professor Baker is unacquainted with the idea of representative democracy.
- 貝克教授并不熟悉“代議制民主”這一思想。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Mr Baker was speaking off the cuff when he made those suggestions.
- 貝克先生臨時提出那些建議。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. Before his first round of discussions, Mr Baker sounded an optimistic note.
- 第一輪討論前，貝克先生聽上去還比較樂觀。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. Baker suggested the administration wasn't raring for a fight.
- 貝克暗示行政部門并不急于卷入爭斗中。
來自柯林斯例句