gingerbread

英 ['dʒɪndʒəbred] 美['dʒɪndʒɚ'brɛd]

make something no longer attractive or desirable

使不再有吸引力（或值得想望）

a gingerbread man (= a gingerbread biscuit/cookie in the shape of a person): 人形姜饼

He bought us some gingerbread works as present when he returned from the beach.: 他从海滨回来的时候给我们买了一些华而不实的工艺品做礼物.

Make anatomically correct gingerbread people and eat the best parts first.: 做成解剖状的姜饼人,先吃掉最好的部分.

After decorating the tree, we will do tiny Gingerbread abodes out of bread and candy.: 装饰完圣诞树后, 咱们就用面包和糖果做些姜汁面包屋.

For desert there's coffee, gingerbread cookies and plum pudding.: 至于甜点方面,包括了咖啡、姜饼和干果布丁.

Japanese Anpanman also has something in common with Gingerbread man.: 日本面包超人也有一些共通点与姜饼的男子.

The high taxes that I paid took the gilt off the gingerbread.: 我缴付的高额税款除去了我大部分的收入.

After decorating the tree, we would make small Gingerbread out of bread candy.: 装饰完圣诞树后, 我们就用面包和糖果做些姜汁面包屋.

Bouquet: Exotic aromas of strawberry, gingerbread, orange peel, dried flowers and leather.: 气味: 柔合着草莓, 姜饼, 橘子皮干花和皮革的香味.

He's offered us his villa by the sea for two weeks. The only problem is that we can only have it in February, which rather takes the gilt off the gingerbread.: 他把海边的别墅让给我们住两个星期. 但是美中不足的是我们只能在二月份去, 这就有些扫兴了.

Words related to Christmas: gingerbread cookies, cake, turkey, Christmas tree, present.: 跟圣诞节相关的单字: 姜饼, 蛋糕, 火鸡, 圣诞树, 礼物.

I wouldn't go halves in the toffee and gingerbread on purpose to save the money.: 为了把钱省下来,我不肯把太妃糖和甜饼分给别人.

They walked and walked in the forest until they found a gingerbread house.: 他们在森林中走了又走,发现了一个姜饼屋.

gingerbread: gingerbread: [13] The idea that gingerbread does not much resemble bread is entirely justified by the word’s history. For originally it was gingebras (a borrowing from Old French), and it meant ‘preserved ginger’. By the mid-14th century, by the process known as folk etymology (the substitution of a more for a less familiar form), -bread had begun to replace -bras, and it was only a matter of time (the early 15th century, apparently) before sense followed form. The expression ‘take the gilt off the gingerbread’ (not recorded before the late 19th century) comes from the fact that formerly gingerbread was often decorated with gold leaf.
gingerbread (n.): late 13c., gingerbrar, "preserved ginger," from Old French ginginbrat "ginger preserve," from Medieval Latin gingimbratus "gingered," from gingiber (see ginger). The ending changed by folk etymology to -brede "bread," a formation attested by mid-14c. Meaning "sweet cake spiced with ginger" is from 15c. Figurative use, indicating anything considered showy and insubstantial, is from c. 1600. Sense of "fussy decoration on a house" is first recorded 1757; gingerbread-work (1748) was a sailor's term for carved decoration on a ship. Gingerbread-man as a confection is from 1850; the rhyme ("The Chase of the Gingerbread Man," by Ella M. White) is from 1898.

1. He's offered us his villa by the sea for two weeks. The only problem is that we can only have it in February, which rather takes the gilt off the gingerbread.: 他把海边的别墅让给我们住两个星期. 但是美中不足的是我们只能在二月份去, 这就有些扫兴了.

2. The high taxes that I paid took the gilt off the gingerbread.: 我缴付的高额税款除去了我大部分的收入.

3. I wouldn't go halves in the toffee and gingerbread on purpose to save the money.: 为了把钱省下来,我不肯把太妃糖和甜饼分给别人.

4. Make anatomically correct gingerbread people and eat the best parts first.: 做成解剖状的姜饼人,先吃掉最好的部分.

5. For desert there's coffee, gingerbread cookies and plum pudding.: 至于甜点方面,包括了咖啡、姜饼和干果布丁.