cook
/kʊk; kuk/
v
1 (a) [I, Ipr, Tn, Dn.n, Dn.pr] ~ sth (for sb) prepare (food) by heating, eg boiling, baking, roasting, frying 烹调(如煮、焙、烤、炸); 做饭菜
*Where did you learn to cook? 你在哪里学的烹饪?
* These potatoes aren't (properly) cooked! 这些马铃薯还没熟(透)!
* a cooked breakfast 做好了的早餐
* He cooked me my dinner. 他给我做了饭.
* I like to cook (Chinese dishes) for my family. 我喜欢给家里人做(中国菜)饭.(b) [I] be prepared in this way 煮, 焙, 烤, 炸; 烹调
*The vegetables are cooking. 蔬菜正在做着.
* The meat cooks slowly. 肉熟得慢.
* These apples cook well, ie taste good when cooked. 这种苹果宜于熟吃. =>Usage 见所附用法.
2 [Tn] (infml derog 口, 贬) alter (sth) secretly or dishonestly so as to deceive; falsify 窜改(某物); 捏造
*He was sent to prison for cooking the books, ie dishonestly changing the financial records, esp for personal profit. 他因窜改帐目而入狱.
* cook the accounts, statistics, figures 窜改账目、统计资料、数字.
3 [I] (used in the continuous tenses 用于进行时态) (infml 口) be planned; happen as a result of plotting 在筹划中; (经过策划而)发生
*What's cooking? 发生了什么事?
* Everybody is being secretive
*there's something cooking. 每个人都鬼鬼祟祟, 一定出了什么事情.
4 (idm 习语) ,cook the `books (infml 口) falsify facts or figures in order to make one's financial position seem better than it really is 伪造帐目; 做假帐. cook sb's `goose (infml 口) ensure that sb fails 使某人彻底失败
*When the police found his fingerprints he knew his goose was cooked, ie knew that he would be caught. 警方发现了他的指纹, 他意识到自己已经完了.
5 (phr v) cook sth up (infml 口) invent sth, esp in order to deceive 编造某事物(尤指行骗)
*cook up an excuse, a story, a bizarre theory, etc 编造藉口、故事、怪论等.
n
1 person who cooks food 厨师; 厨子; 炊事员
*employed as a cook in a hotel 受雇为旅馆厨师
* I'm not much of a cook, ie I don't cook well. 我做不好饭菜.
* Were you the cook? ie Did you cook this food? 是你做饭吗? Cf 参看 chef.
2 (idm 习语) ,too many ,cooks ,spoil the `broth (saying 谚) if too many people are involved in sth, it will not be done properly 厨子多了做坏了汤(人多反倒误事)
*I know they only meant to help, but it was a case of too many `cooks, I'm afraid. 我知道他们一心想帮忙, 可惜人多反而坏了事.
NOTE ON USAGE 用法
*When cooking we generally use
1 boiling water (in a saucepan) or
2 boiling fat/oil (in a frying-pan) or
3 dry heat (in an oven or under a grill). 使用cook一词时, 一般是指用(1)沸水(置于深锅中)或(2)热的动[植]物油(置于煎锅中)或(3)直接加热(置于烤炉中或烤架上).
1 We boil vegetables, eggs, rice, etc by covering them with water and heating it. 将蔬菜、鸡蛋、大米等浸于水中煮叫boil. *We steam fish, puddings, etc by placing the food above boiling water. 将鱼、布丁等置于沸水上蒸叫steam. *2 Meat, fish, vegetables, etc can be fried in shallow oil or fat. 将肉、鱼、蔬菜等放在少许植物油或动物油里煎叫fry. *Chips, chicken pieces, etc can be completely covered by oil and deep-fried. 将土豆条、鸡块等完全浸入油中炸叫deep-fry. *We saute vegetables very quickly in a small amount of oil. 用少量油将蔬菜很快一炒叫saute. *3 We roast large pieces of meat, potatoes, etc and we bake bread, cakes, etc in the oven. 在烤箱里烘烤大块的肉、土豆等叫roast, 烘烤面包、糕饼等叫bake. *Small or flat pieces of meat, fish, etc are grilled (US broiled) by being placed under direct heat. 将小块的或切成片的肉、鱼等置于发热器下面烘烤叫grill(美式英语叫broil). *Boil, fry, roast and bake can be used in two types of sentence *boil、fry、roast、bake可用于以下两种句型
*We boil potatoes and The potatoes are boiling. Steam, saute and grill are generally only used in the first pattern. *steam、saute、grill一般只用于以上第一种句型. With boil we often use the container to refer to its contents 用boil时常以容器借代其所盛之物
*The kettle's boiling. 锅开了.