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

• Popular Irish toasts on St Patrick's Day, include: may the roof above us never fall in, and may we friends beneath it never fall out.
  爱尔兰圣帕特里克节的流行祝酒语包括：愿头上屋顶不倒，屋下朋友不分。
• 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。
• We bellowed our Yuletide toasts over the hail that had started pelting the corrugated iron roof.
  我俩高喊着为圣诞节干杯，声音盖过了敲打着波浪形铁皮屋顶的冰雹声。
• 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。
• 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。
• A large drinking glass ( ovoid bowl on a stem) for drinking toasts.
  吃吐司面包时候用的大的饮水玻璃杯（卵形的碗）。
• 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。
• 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。
• After that, I lost track of the toasts as everybody started toasting with me, though thankfully I was allowed to switch to wine.
  在那之后我就完全不记得自己干了多少杯了，大家都开始跟我敬酒，也互相敬。不过还好我获准换成了红酒。
• 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。