cake

ケーキ

小麦粉や卵、砂糖などを混ぜて焼く甘い菓子。お祝いでも食べる。

やさしい英語で： A sweet food baked from ingredients such as flour, eggs, and sugar, often served at celebrations.

• I made a chocolate cake.
• We shared two slices of cake.
• Who baked the birthday cake?

類義語： gateau

よく使う表現： birthday cake, chocolate cake, slice of cake

朝飯前

「a piece of cake」で、とても簡単にできること。

やさしい英語で： In “a piece of cake,” something that is very easy to do.

• The test was a piece of cake.
• Fixing this bike will be a piece of cake.
• Was the interview a piece of cake?

類義語： breeze, cinch

よく使う表現： piece of cake, a piece of cake

餅、練り物

材料を押し固めた、たいてい丸く平たい小さな食べ物。

やさしい英語で： A small, usually round, flat piece of food made by pressing ingredients together.

• She ate a rice cake.
• The fish cakes came with salad.
• Press the potato mixture into small cakes.

類義語： patty

よく使う表現： rice cake, fish cake, potato cake

パンケーキ

小麦粉などの液状の生地をフライパンで丸く平たく焼いた食べ物。

やさしい英語で： A flat, round food made by cooking a liquid mixture of flour and other ingredients in a pan.

• He served a hot buckwheat cake.
• We ate cakes with butter and syrup.
• Turn each cake when bubbles appear.

類義語： pancake, griddlecake

よく使う表現： buckwheat cake, griddle cake

塊、固形物

石けんや氷などの、固まった一つの塊。

やさしい英語で： A solid piece of a substance, such as soap or ice.

• He bought a cake of soap.
• Cakes of ice floated down the river.
• She wrapped each cake of soap in paper.

類義語： block, bar

よく使う表現： cake of soap, cake of ice

平たいパン

小さな焼いたパン。平たく、膨らませる材料を使わないことが多い。

やさしい英語で： A small piece of baked bread, often flat and made without ingredients that help it rise.

• She baked a small oatmeal cake.
• They shared cakes of unleavened bread.
• A warm cake lay beside the hearth.

類義語： flatbread

よく使う表現： oatmeal cake, unleavened cake

こびりつく、覆う

厚い層となって表面を覆い、乾いたり固まったりする。

やさしい英語で： To cover something with a thick layer of material that becomes dry or hard.

• Dried mud can cake your boots.
• Blood had caked his sleeve.
• Dust cakes the windows during the dry season.

使い方： be caked with something (Her shoes were caked with mud.)

類義語： coat, encrust

よく使う表現： cake something with mud, cake the surface