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baba

/bah-buh; French ba-ba/US // ˈbɑ bə; French baˈba //UK // (ˈbɑːbɑː, French baba) //

巴巴,巴布,巴比,粑粑麻麻

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ba·bas [bah-buhz; French ba-ba]. /ˈbɑ bəz; French baˈba/.

    • : a spongelike cake leavened with yeast and often containing raisins, baked in a small mold and then usually soaked with a rum syrup.

Examples

  • “Maidan is distinctly separate from the current government,” says Baba, a rail-thin man with a long beard who looks like a monk.

  • “There is no real chain of command in the army,” Baba tells me.

  • “So-called state leaders are not interested in the state,” Baba says.

  • She won’t eat, and every night she cries out in her dreams: ‘baba jan (father), baba jan, protect me.

  • The trilogy follows Kate and Baba, two lasses from the Shannon bogs, from convent school to the bright lights of London.

  • In fact, except for Ramona's help, it would have been a question whether even Alessandro could have made Baba work in harness.

  • Going back we had some long range shots with the 15-inch guns at batteries in rear of Achi Baba.

  • The shells came from Asia and Achi Baba:—in a fiery shower, they fell upon the lines of our front trenches.

  • We have men enough, and good men too, but we are short of pebbles for Goliath of Achi Baba.

  • The upshot of the whole affair is that the enemy still hold a strong line of trenches between us and Achi Baba.