pie

英 [paɪ] 美[paɪ]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

n. 馅饼；饼图；爱说话的人
vt. 使杂乱

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中文词源

pie 喜鹊

来自古法语pie,来自拉丁语pica,来自picus,喜鹊，啄木鸟，-a,表阴性，来自PIE*speik,啄，词源同spike.

词态变化

复数: pies;

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1. 音译“派”，如：苹果派（apple pie）。

英文词源

pie: pie: [14] The characteristic feature of pies in the Middle Ages was that their filling consisted of a heterogeneous mixture of ingredients (as opposed to pasties, which had just one main ingredient). This has led etymologists to suggest that pies were named after magpies (or pies, as they were originally called), from a supposed resemblance between the miscellaneous contents of pies and the assortment of objects collected by thieving magpies.

Although pie has now been superseded by magpie as the bird-name, it survives in pied [14] (etymologically ‘coloured black and white like a magpie’) and piebald [16] (etymologically ‘streaked with black and white’).
=> magpie, pied, piebald
pie (n.1): "pastry," mid-14c. (probably older; piehus "bakery" is attested from late 12c.), from Medieval Latin pie "meat or fish enclosed in pastry" (c. 1300), perhaps related to Medieval Latin pia "pie, pastry," also possibly connected with pica "magpie" (see pie (n.2)) on notion of the bird's habit of collecting miscellaneous objects. Figurative of "something to be shared out" by 1967.

According to OED, not known outside English, except Gaelic pighe, which is from English. In the Middle Ages, a pie had many ingredients, a pastry but one. Fruit pies began to appear c. 1600. Figurative sense of "something easy" is from 1889. Pie-eyed "drunk" is from 1904. Phrase pie in the sky is 1911, from Joe Hill's Wobbly parody of hymns. Pieman is not attested earlier than the nursery rhyme "Simple Simon" (c. 1820). Pie chart is from 1922.
pie (n.2): "magpie," mid-13c. (late 12c. as a surname), from Old French pie (13c.), from Latin pica "magpie" (see magpie). In 16c., a wily pie was a "cunning person."
pie (n.3): also pi, printers' slang for "a mass of type jumbled together" (also pi, pye), 1650s, perhaps from pie (n.1) on notion of a "medley," or pie (n.2); compare pica (n.1). As a verb from 1870. Related: Pied.

双语例句

1. He decided on roast chicken and vegetables, with apple pie to follow.: 他决定点烤鸡配蔬菜，然后再要一份苹果派。

2. He can't help thinking it's all just "pie in the sky" talk.: 他禁不住想所有这些不过是“画饼充饥”的空话而已。

3. They have begun carving the country up like a pie.: 他们已经开始像切馅饼一样瓜分这个国家。

4. When assembling the pie, wet the edges where the two crusts join.: 捏合馅饼时，要弄湿两张饼皮粘连的地方。

5. Norman cut open his pie and squirted tomato sauce into it.: 诺尔曼切开自己的派，往里面挤了点番茄酱。

英英释意

1. dish baked in pastry-lined pan often with a pastry top

考试真题

These traditional dishes include fish and chips, steak and kidney pie and large pieces of roasted meats.

Do we still have any pie left from dinner yesterday?

There was nothing left except some pie

What about the custard pie routine?

What do you mean 'custard pie routine'

You know, all those old films where someone gets so outraged with his boss, He picks up a custard pie and plasters it all over the other person's face.

Why do many people find it funny to see someone throwing a custard pie on their boss's face

A pie graph might include a legend, or it might use icons or labels within each slice.

A typical pie graph looks like a circular pie.

The graph is commonly used to show percentages; the whole pie represents l00 percent, so each piece is a fraction of the whole.

This pie graph shows on month's expense, see Graph 3.

实用场景例句

a slice of apple pie: 一块苹果派

Help yourself to some more pie.: 请随意再吃些果馅饼吧。

a pie dish: 一份果馅饼

a steak and kidney pie: 碎牛肉腰子馅饼

This talk of moving to Australia is all just pie in the sky.: 移居澳大利亚之说纯属异想天开。

...a pork pie.: 猪肉馅饼

...apple pie and custard.: 苹果派和蛋奶糕

The true regeneration of devastated Docklands seemed like pie in the sky...: 遭毁坏码头区的真正重建看起来希望渺茫。

He can't help thinking it's all just 'pie in the sky' talk.: 他禁不住想所有这些不过是“画饼充饥”的空话而已。

You can easily calculate the memory space a bitmap of this size will require.: 您能容易地计算这大小位图将要求的存储量.

For me, baseball is as American as apple pie.: 对我来说, 棒球同苹果馅饼一样是地道的美国玩意儿.

The steaming apple pie tempted him to disregard his diet.: 那热气腾腾的苹果馅饼把他诱惑得不去顾及自己需要节食.

Don't put your finger in the pie.: 别管闲事.

When he realized his mistake, he had to eat humble pie.: 他认识到了自己的错误, 只好赔礼道歉.

You may be sure that Li Ying has a finger in the pie.: 你可以肯定李英是参与其事的.

Glaze the pie with beaten egg.: 在馅饼上挂一层鸡蛋显得光亮.

His plans for converting his house into an antique shop are just pie in the sky.: 他想把他的房子改造成一个古玩店,那种计划只不过是空想而已.

Cut the pastry into small rounds, one for each pie.: 把油酥面团切成小圆片, 每个馅饼用一片.

The young man blushed when his girl friend called him her sweetie pie.: 当女朋友称他为心肝宝贝时,这年轻人满脸通红.

He had a finger in every pie at school, from dramatics to football.: 在学校里, 从演戏到踢足球,什么活动他都参加.

Would you like some apple pie for dessert?: 你想不想要些苹果派当甜点?

Pumpkin pie is a traditional American dish served on Thanksgiving.: 南瓜馅饼是美国传统的感恩节食物.

A man among men is he who knows when to eat humble pie and when to hold his head high.: 大丈夫能屈能伸.

Seed the cherries before you put them in the pie.: 樱桃去籽之后才能做馅饼.

steak and kidney pie: 牛肉腰花馅饼

a lemon meringue pie: 柠檬蛋糖馅饼

a slice of apple pie: 一块苹果派

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