Baking
“Baking” 指用干热(通常是烤箱)使食物熟透或变金黄,如 baking bread(烤面包)或 baking cookies(烤曲奇);也可引申为某物正在经受高温,如 the sun is baking the pavement(烈日炙烤路面)。
- “She is baking a chocolate cake for the party.” (她正在为聚会烤巧克力蛋糕。)
- “The smell of baking bread filled the whole kitchen.” (烤面包的香味弥漫了整个厨房。)
- “We spent Sunday afternoon baking muffins together.” (我们周日下午一起烤玛芬。)
“Bake” 源自古英语 bacan(烤、烘),为日耳曼语族固有词汇,与荷兰语 bakken 同源。
“-ing” 表示现在进行;也可作动名词,如 baking is my hobby(烘焙是我的爱好)。
烘焙在欧美家庭文化中很常见;在开发者工具的诙谐 loading 文案里,“baking” 常比喻“正在把原料做成成品”,像烤箱里慢慢出炉一样。
- 固定搭配: “baking soda” (小苏打), “baking sheet” (烤盘)
- 原形: bake
- 名词: baker, bakery
- 形容词: baked
“bake + ing”:面点进烤箱、香气渐浓——baking 就是正在烘焙。
“While baking cookies, she set a timer and used the waiting minutes to frost the ones already cooling on the rack.” (烤曲奇时她设好定时器,趁等待给晾架上的曲奇挤糖霜。)