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cornflakes

/kawrn-fleyks/US // ˈkɔrnˌfleɪks //UK // (ˈkɔːnˌfleɪks) //

玉米片,粟米片,玉米饼,玉米粉

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a packaged breakfast cereal in the form of small toasted flakes made from corn, for serving cold with milk, sugar, etc.

Examples

  • Shards of maple tuile carpet the surface and crackle like cornflakes.

  • One of his men put a bowl of cornflakes in front of him and a pot of hot tea.

  • Add cornflakes until substance will hold shape when dropped from teaspoon, on to buttered paper.

  • We stood and looked down at them: A bowl of cornflakes and a silver spoon.

  • In the meantime, the avian population in the region is on the increase, thanks to all those cornflakes-and-firefly dinners.

  • What was the precise distribution and dampness of each of those soggy cornflakes!

  • It was too much like that old thing that used to puzzle him so at breakfast; the picture of the girl on the box of cornflakes.