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cakewalk

/keyk-wawk/US // ˈkeɪkˌwɔk //UK // (ˈkeɪkˌwɔːk) //

蛋糕店,梦游,蛋糕屋,蛋糕房

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a promenade or march, of Black American origin, in which the couples with the most intricate or eccentric steps received cakes as prizes.
    • : a dance with a strutting step based on this promenade.
    • : music for this dance.
    • : Informal. something easy, sure, or certain.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to walk or dance in or as if in a cakewalk.

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Examples

  • When these wars begin, the United States typically has positive illusions about how the war is going to go—that it’ll be a cakewalk in Iraq or in Afghanistan.

  • Cuomo’s main vulnerability probably lies in the Democratic primary, though even if he survives it, the general election might not be a cakewalk either.

  • In a new story, Will Huntsberry writes that 2020 was probably the last cakewalk for union-backed school board candidates.

  • Democrats still think that 2016 is going to be Clinton cakewalk.

  • If the Democrats maintain this charade, 2016 will not be the cakewalk they dream it to be.

  • But that does not, so far as Philippe Petit is concerned, make it a cakewalk.

  • Germany won a cakewalk, controlling the game from start to finish.

  • And that was a cakewalk compared to the three years I spent teaching high school!

  • Well, he'll be back on the night train, for to-morrow is the final cakewalk of his old Conference.

  • Still others, doing a kind of animated cakewalk, carried toy ray guns which they fired at random into the crowd.

  • I know she can dance, for have I not seen her executing the cakewalk in Dimbie's tea-rose slippers?

  • In Paris the cakewalk is a thing of misunderstood, misapplied accents.

  • He tipped his derby one-sided and started off on a cakewalk.