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loaf

/lohf/US // loʊf //UK // (ləʊf) //

一块面包,一块面饼,一块钱,一块蛋糕

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural loaves [lohvz]. /loʊvz/.

    • : a portion of bread or cake baked in a mass, usually oblong with a rounded top.
    • : a shaped or molded mass of food, as of sugar or chopped meat: a veal loaf.
    • : British. the rounded head of a cabbage, lettuce, etc.Slang: Older Use.head or brains: Use your loaf.

Synonyms & Antonyms

verbbe idle, lazy
Forms: loafing, loaves
Synonyms
laze闲逛,懒惰,发呆,懒散loll忽悠bum乞丐,乞讨者,乞讨,乞食者dally调戏,调皮捣蛋,调剂,调侃dillydally磨磨蹭蹭,磨磨蹭蹭的,磨磨蹭蹭地,磨磨蹭蹭的人dream梦想,梦,梦中,梦境drift漂流,漂移,漂泊,漂浮evade躲避,回避,避开,逃避goldbrick金砖,金磚,黄金砖,砖头idle闲置,闲置的,空闲,闲散的lie谎言,撒谎,骗人,谎话loiter闲逛,徘徊,游荡,徜徉lounge休息室,休息区,休息室里,休息厅malinger诈骗,诈骗罪,诈骗犯,诈骗案piddle胡乱猜测,淘淘,胡乱猜想,淘气包relax放松,松弛,放轻松,放松心情saunter步行,步行者,行走,漫步shirk推卸责任,推诿,逃避责任,逃避slack松弛,松懈,松懈的,松垮的stall摊位,档期,档口,摊开stroll闲逛,漫步,逛街,逛逛trifle小事一桩,琐事,小事,区区小事vegetate长草,长赘疣,长赘肉,长赘物be inactive闲置,不活跃,闲着也是闲着,不活动be indolent懒散,懒惰,懒洋洋,懒散无为be slothful懒惰,懒散,懒洋洋,懒洋洋的be unoccupied无人居住,闲着也是闲着,闲置,没人住bum around周围的人,周围环境,周围的人都知道fool around瞎胡闹,瞎闹,鬼混,瞎混fritter away挥霍浪费,浪费掉,浪费掉的,挥霍无度hang out闲逛,挂出,玩耍,闲逛的时候kill time消磨时间,消磨时光,杀死时间,消磨時間knock around敲敲打打,磕磕碰碰,磕磕绊绊,敲敲打打的let down辜负,辜负了,失望,辜负了人们的期望lounge around闲逛,闲聊,闲逛的时候,闲逛时not lift a finger不举手,不动声色,无动于衷,不费吹灰之力pass time消磨时间,过时间,消磨时光,逝去的时光sit around闲坐,围坐,闲坐着,闲坐不动slow down减缓,慢下来,减慢,减慢速度stand around站在周围,站在旁边,站在一旁,站在周围的人take it easy悠着点,悠着点儿,轻松点,悠着点吧twiddle thumbs屈指可数,掰着指头算,掰着指头,屈指一算waste time浪费时间,耽误时间,耽搁时间,废话while away hours消磨时间,消磨时光,消遣时间,消遣时光

Examples

  • Toaster ovens can do the trick, of course, but while they’re usually long enough to accommodate these extra-large loaves, they can’t always fit more than one slice at a time.

  • Whether you’re making sourdough bread or loaves made with commercial dry yeast, your bread dough is a living thing.

  • Unless you’ve missed every single nutrition article since the early 1990s, you probably know that, in a nutritional face-off, a whole-wheat loaf beats Wonder Bread every time.

  • I dreamed of space telescopes the size of a loaf of bread—not one, but an army, fanning out into orbit like so many advance scouts.

  • Remove the loaf from the oven, and place it on a wire rack to cool.

  • He had a special knife designed to cut the dense loaf, and a ceremony to precede cutting the cake.

  • The featured photo for the list, first of all, is as white as a loaf of Wonder Bread and as male as a football locker room.

  • This 2-0 was a clear-cut win, a sharp slice through a loaf, no ambiguity, no crumbs.

  • It is built not in a long bun, but in a half-loaf of fresh, tawny-crusted Italian bread.

  • In her cramped kitchen she mashed pork fat with oatmeal and sculpted a loaf, which she fried up in patties.

  • Toward eight o'clock a pretty, capable-looking girl of twelve came out of the house and bought a loaf of bread at the baker's.

  • The Corn-law compels us to pay three times the value for a loaf of bread.

  • The brown loaf was cut by a very excited little hostess into five thick squares; the cheese into four.

  • They were knives; anyway, they were used to spread the delicious morsels of butter on the brown loaf.

  • A miche is a loaf of fine manchet bread, of good quality; see Cotgrave.