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noun fleɪkfleɪk 1A small, flat, very thin piece of something, typically one which has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece. 薄片，一小片（尤指裂片、碎片或削片） he licked the flakes of croissant off his finger Example sentencesExamples - We weren't going to argue, as the big white flakes of fish proved mouthwatering.
- The particles in a low earth orbit may be numerous, but mainly they consist of parts that burnt and broke up upon re-entry, and are thus just small particles and flakes.
- This is due to its construction: Recycled plastics are shredded into flakes and heat-pressed into the mold of said desired shape.
- Kyle noted a flat tire caused by the flakes of shield, and looked over at the supply trailer.
- In gray iron, the graphite is in the form of flakes; these flakes help machining because of the way that they fracture when being machined.
- The white paintwork was peeling off in huge flakes and one of the windows had a long, diagonal crack running across it.
- I peel a chunk of weathered paint off, and hold the thin papery flake in my palm.
- The odder thing was that flakes of his skin seemed to be peeling off of his body.
- She was tearing fragments off and placing them in her mouth, dusty and moist, her fingers covered in oil from the almond paste, sugar and flakes of croissant pastry.
- There were also large flakes of paint peeling off of the buildings, though it was hard to tell when there was no color to the whole place.
- In this method, clear sticky tape was pressed firmly into sample areas and rapidly pulled away, removing thin flakes of biotite with the tapes.
- Season the fish and cook either under an overhead grill, or over the coals until a flake of fish can be pulled easily from the bone.
- Large, juicy flakes of fish are what appeal here.
- In older homes, paint regularly contains large amounts of lead that can peel off the walls in flakes and chips or fall on floors and windowsills as a toxic dust, especially in poorly maintained housing stock.
- The paint coating the frame was peeling and a small flake was ripped off by a breeze and was carried away.
- A few flakes of fuschia bark dangle from a spider's web.
- Surprisingly light in texture, and the flakes come away in one piece.
- We were staring at the garage door with big flakes of white paint peeling off it, but in our minds we were going through the desert.
- It's available in a flat flake, a powder with an applicator or in pencil form.
Synonyms sliver, wafer, shaving, paring, peeling chip, shard, scale, crumb, grain, speck, spillikin fragment, scrap, shred, bit, particle Scottish skelf technical spall, lamina - 1.1 A snowflake.
雪花，雪片 the snow was coming down in thick flakes Example sentencesExamples - She ran and ran, through the falling flakes that kissed and licked at her little body, and as she ran she held her face to the sky and opened her mouth wide to catch the brilliant white on this most holy of nights.
- Jennifer looked out over the garden, all covered in a soft blanket of gorgeous white that just grew thicker and thicker with the falling flakes.
- The snow pattered down around me as I looked up at her, landing in my hair and covering the dull drabness of my dress with fluffy flakes.
- From the haze fell snowflakes - first a slow, drifting fall of feathery flakes, then a faster fall that lasted longer, then a hailstorm.
- And the snow flurries quickly became a constant storm of thick flakes that started to settle deeply on the ground.
- At first, it was the fluffy kind that melts when you catch it on your tongue, but now it's more like heavy fat flakes.
- Snow squalls whiten the dulled brick wall across the street, flakes freezing on contact.
- Jamie followed suit, and the two of them started laughing when the sky opened up and the thick, fluffy flakes started floating down on them.
- It didn't settle though (and they were very small flakes, almost grains), but despite the wind, it wasn't that cold.
- It began Tuesday night, big fluffy, surprisingly un-wet flakes.
- As we lounged, slapping grey mud on our faces in a bid to cleanse our pores, if not our livers, it began to snow, the flakes descending into the rising steam as if fighting some ancient primeval battle.
- A soft haze of thick flakes, sluicing through the streetlights, settling on gutters, bicycles and pedestrians.
- Outside it was snowing again; fat flakes adhering to the fogged windowpanes like intricate lacework, the clouds looking like lumps of lead against a steel grey background.
- A gust of wind blew the falling snow in a violent manner and then slowed, as the flakes grew bigger, thicker, and fatter.
- It's still coming down in big fluffy flakes, and it's marvelous.
- It's snowing like mad right now, huge fluffy flakes pelting down.
- I watched the snow fall heavier, the flakes becoming thicker, and knew I should have been cold, but I couldn't feel a thing.
- Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
- It took losing sight of Attila, whom I was walking right beside, for me to notice that the flakes were falling hard, thick, and fast.
- It's not like real big flakes, more like hard rain, but it's really coming down!
- 1.2Archaeology A piece of hard stone chipped off for use as a tool by prehistoric humans.
〔考古〕（史前人类用作工具的）坚硬石片 Example sentencesExamples - Living on the Isle of Wight with a life-long interest in prehistory I have spent many hours field-walking and have a substantial collection of flint tools and flakes.
- The flake tools have possible polishing and edge-wear damage evident along one lateral margin.
- The artifacts include hundreds of stone tools and flakes, as well as spear foreshafts made of rhinoceros horn and mammoth tusk.
- Very few flakes or flake tools were recovered from this small occupation.
- A large number of flint-working sites, producing long, slender flakes used for making tools and weapons, were found during archaeological survey work in the early 1970s.
- 1.3mass noun Thin pieces of crushed, dried food or bait for fish.
脱水食物碎片；小片鱼饵 Example sentencesExamples - The water certainly was not very deep so I decided to use a small self cocking float with 6 lb line and a piece of bread flake as bait.
- A large lump of floating bread flake fished in conjunction with a controller float was the successful method.
- Throughout the training and testing period, all fish remaining in the stock tank were fed flake food once daily and bloodworm from a floating feeder twice a week to familiarize them with it.
- The baits used are lobworms, cheese paste, meat paste, bread flake and crust.
- I catapulted a big bit of bread flake across the river.
- Hooks are normally between size 6 and 10 baited with bread flake or crust.
- So I tied up a two-hook rig which had a big hook on the surface carrying a big crust, and a smaller hook 4ins below it carrying a piece of flake that simulated a piece that was sinking from the crust.
- Fish were fed on a mixture of commercial flake and live food once per day.
- Pinch on a large piece of bread flake (which should completely cover the hook) and cast as close as you dare.
- All the locals were legering dry crust or flake for the roach but I was determined to float fish.
- Stir in the dried chilli flakes, the length of orange peel and the bay leaves.
- Stalking fish with bread flake, worms and big black slugs is both highly enjoyable and productive.
- If you're a cereal over-loader, nutritionists at suggest forfeiting half your flakes for a piece of fruit or whole-wheat toast.
- The Roquefort salad came with many pieces of blue cheese, green salad and flakes of walnuts.
- I decided to use a nice piece of bread flake as hook bait.
- Several roach over that magical 2lb barrier have been banked recently with anglers prepared to sit it out on bread flake being rewarded with the better fish.
- It's an entire wall of jars full of exotic looking powders and flakes and you can buy an eighth of a teaspoon if that's all you want.
- Try a small cage feeder with liquidised bread and a small piece of flake or punch on the hook.
- When trotting with a pin in fast water, I often use bread flake as my hook bait.
- The humble bread flake is as good as anything more high-tech but cat meat and corn will also score.
2North American informal A crazy or eccentric person. 〈北美，非正式〉疯子；行为古怪者 Example sentencesExamples - So, do you now blame your loss on these crazies and flakes?
verb fleɪkfleɪk 1no object Come or fall away from a surface in flakes. 剥落，成片状脱落 the paint had been flaking off for years 这油漆多年来不停地在脱落。 Example sentencesExamples - And at the detective's feet, a metal bat rested on the floor, dried blood flaking off its end.
- In most cases, they are kept behind rusty black bars in cement blocks where the drab paint is flaking off.
- The door was metal with no handle, and painted with white paint now flaking off.
- The years-old paint that covered the thin frame was chipped and flaking off, revealing the bare steel underneath.
- Thick layers of dust look like curtains on the windows of this bus, and the paint is flaking off the rusted seats.
- The sight of paint flaking off a historic work of art, literally crumbling off in lumps is a disgrace and will reflect badly on us in years to come.
- If you looked hard enough you could see the places where the paint was flaking off.
- The white paint on the side was flaking off and the steps leading up inside of it were rusty and they creaked as she was pushed inside.
- The surface of the tree was flaking off in great sheets of bark, showering the two with dust made of both dead tree and stone.
- The rusty pink nail polish that I had put on two months ago was flaking off and falling silently on the ground.
- The door shut softly, brown paint flaking off behind me, fluttering down to the carpet.
- On the right hand side there was a small dressing table, its white paint flaking off, and a large wardrobe, which seemed to take up most of the room, in which to store her clothes.
- All the paint was flaking off and some lead work needed doing.
- It's only the next morning, in daylight for the first time, that I realise his whole body is red raw sunburnt and flaking off all over.
- The epidermis has four layers of cells that are constantly flaking off and being renewed.
- Examining his arms he found that they were peeling in a very disgusting fashion, large patches of skin flaking off.
- Today, at 108,000 kilometres, there's paint flaking off the leading edge of the hood, the brakes need work and the dashboard makes a buzzing noise at highway speeds when it's cold.
- If you find one at this price with a decent engine, you can count on the interior looking like a dog's bed and the paint will be oxidized or flaking off in sheets.
- My eyesight was also heightened considerably, with the bright, whitewashed walls that had large pieces of plaster flaking off the surface standing out fiercely at me.
- This film often contains many small cracks and is flaking off of the face of the wall.
Synonyms peel off, peel, chip, scale off, blister, come off, come off in layers - 1.1 Lose small fragments from the surface.
表面片状剥落 my nails have started to flake at the ends 我的指甲底部已开始剥落。 Synonyms peel off, peel, chip, scale off, blister, come off, come off in layers
2with object Separate (food) into flakes or thin pieces. 切鱼片。 Example sentencesExamples - Leave them for 10 minutes until they have softened, then drain and flake the fish.
- Mix and then add the tuna, flaking it up as you go.
- I've switched to flaked coconut and it works just as well.
- One nut biscuit which has developed in a slightly different manner is the florentine, which incorporates flaked almonds, candied peel, and dried fruit, and is coated with chocolate, ‘brushed’ to make wavy lines.
- Sprinkle with flaked almonds and decorate with a few chocolate curls.
- One high street shop, Food Emporium Culina, has closed down, so shoppers will have to go elsewhere for their toasted flaked almonds, pine kernels and pistachio nuts.
- Toss it through 400g of pasta and garnish with toasted flaked almonds and Parmesan shavings.
- Also, the original just uses flaked almonds on the top.
- Roll into balls, roll in flour, roll in beaten egg, roll in flaked almonds.
- Beware of foods such as hash browns, home fries, jam, molasses, soup mixes, canned vegetables, wine and flaked coconut.
- Fred prefers a version where I use only flaked almonds (no orange, ginger, salt or sesame seeds).
- Remove the skin from the fish, then carefully flake the flesh with your fingers.
- Baking it helped me use up some things I might not otherwise have used for a while, like raw flaked almonds and condensed milk.
- Dissolve 6 tablespoons flaked pickling salt in 1 gallon of lukewarm water.
- Add prepared fish to the mixing bowl, flaking the fish into small pieces (I find it easiest to do this with my fingers).
- 2.1no object (of food) come apart in flakes or thin pieces.
（食物）散成片 cook until the fish flakes easily Example sentencesExamples - The kind where the crust flakes off in sharp little pieces that stick to the roof of our mouth.
- Place on greased baking sheet and bake at 450F turning once for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden and fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
- After that time, you can take a peek, and check delicately that the fish flesh flakes easily.
- Add salmon, skinside down, and cook, covered, 10-12 minutes or until fish flakes easily.
- Gently turn over and cook an additional 3-5 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
OriginMiddle English: the immediate source is unknown, the senses perhaps deriving from different words; probably of Germanic origin and related to flag2 and flaw1. Rhymesache, awake, bake, betake, Blake, brake, break, cake, crake, drake, fake, forsake, hake, Jake, lake, make, mistake, opaque, partake, quake, rake, sake, shake, sheikh, slake, snake, splake, stake, steak, strake, take, undertake, wake, wideawake noun fleɪkfleɪk A rack or shelf for storing or drying food such as fish. 晒（或储存）鱼的搁架；晒干（或储存）食物的搁架
OriginMiddle English (denoting a wicker hurdle): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Old Norse flaki, fleki 'wicker shield' and Danish flage 'hurdle'. verb fleɪkfleɪk [no object]flake outinformal Fall asleep; drop from exhaustion. 〈非正式〉入睡；筋疲力尽 he got back in time to flake out until morning Example sentencesExamples - The last week or so has been such a whirl; I've either been rushing about doing stuff, else I've been flaked out knackered from the rushing!
- ‘I would just flake out in front of the television at night, but now I've decided to get fit and lose weight,’ she says.
- All flaked out in the garden, we had fun entertaining J (who's two) who is entertainment himself.
- Right now she's in bed flaked out.
- She flaked out on the back seat, and we were loath to wake her when we arrived.
- But now I have one babe asleep in my arms and the other babe is flaked out on the sofa.
- So we had an early dinner and I flaked out on the sofa.
- Old women in black dresses sit chatting in groups, dogs flake out in the shade.
- I flaked out long before that, and announced my need to go back for a top-up nap.
- Look at him all flaked out, the poor thing.
- Usually at 9pm I'm flaking out in front of the tv.
- We were totally going for it and I didn't notice that the rest of the band were flaking out.
- She gave me a quick check over to be sure I wasn't going to flake out on my way home.
- If I'm going to flake out as soon as I get home, then it's probably worth trying to write during my lunch break.
Synonyms fall asleep, go to sleep, drop off collapse, drop, keel over faint, pass out, lose consciousness, black out informal conk out, go out, go out like a light, nod off North American informal sack out, zone out literary swoon
OriginLate 15th century (in the senses 'become languid' and (of a garment) 'fall in folds'): variant of obsolete flack and the verb flag4. The current sense dates from the 1940s. noun fleɪkfleɪk Nautical A single turn of a coiled rope or hawser. （卷绳或盘索的）一圈
verb fleɪkfleɪk [with object]Nautical 1Lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it tangling. （为防缠绕而）把（绳子）松松挽好 a cable had to be flaked out 有根电缆需要挽好。 - 1.1 Lay (a sail) down in folds either side of the boom.
把（帆）在主桅的一侧落下叠好 Example sentencesExamples - Going to the mizzen boom he undid the badly fastened ties, raised the sail and lowered it, flaking it neatly as it came down.
OriginEarly 17th century (as a noun): of unknown origin; compare with German Flechte in the same sense. nounflākfleɪk 1A small, flat, thin piece of something, typically one that has broken away or been peeled off from a larger piece. 薄片，一小片（尤指裂片、碎片或削片） paint peeling off the walls in unsightly flakes 从墙上脱落的斑驳丑陋的油漆片。 酥皮片。 Example sentencesExamples - It's available in a flat flake, a powder with an applicator or in pencil form.
- There were also large flakes of paint peeling off of the buildings, though it was hard to tell when there was no color to the whole place.
- Surprisingly light in texture, and the flakes come away in one piece.
- In gray iron, the graphite is in the form of flakes; these flakes help machining because of the way that they fracture when being machined.
- A few flakes of fuschia bark dangle from a spider's web.
- Large, juicy flakes of fish are what appeal here.
- The paint coating the frame was peeling and a small flake was ripped off by a breeze and was carried away.
- We were staring at the garage door with big flakes of white paint peeling off it, but in our minds we were going through the desert.
- The particles in a low earth orbit may be numerous, but mainly they consist of parts that burnt and broke up upon re-entry, and are thus just small particles and flakes.
- Season the fish and cook either under an overhead grill, or over the coals until a flake of fish can be pulled easily from the bone.
- In this method, clear sticky tape was pressed firmly into sample areas and rapidly pulled away, removing thin flakes of biotite with the tapes.
- The white paintwork was peeling off in huge flakes and one of the windows had a long, diagonal crack running across it.
- Kyle noted a flat tire caused by the flakes of shield, and looked over at the supply trailer.
- We weren't going to argue, as the big white flakes of fish proved mouthwatering.
- In older homes, paint regularly contains large amounts of lead that can peel off the walls in flakes and chips or fall on floors and windowsills as a toxic dust, especially in poorly maintained housing stock.
- I peel a chunk of weathered paint off, and hold the thin papery flake in my palm.
- This is due to its construction: Recycled plastics are shredded into flakes and heat-pressed into the mold of said desired shape.
- The odder thing was that flakes of his skin seemed to be peeling off of his body.
- She was tearing fragments off and placing them in her mouth, dusty and moist, her fingers covered in oil from the almond paste, sugar and flakes of croissant pastry.
Synonyms sliver, wafer, shaving, paring, peeling - 1.1 A snowflake.
雪花，雪片 Example sentencesExamples - From the haze fell snowflakes - first a slow, drifting fall of feathery flakes, then a faster fall that lasted longer, then a hailstorm.
- A soft haze of thick flakes, sluicing through the streetlights, settling on gutters, bicycles and pedestrians.
- It's not like real big flakes, more like hard rain, but it's really coming down!
- The snow pattered down around me as I looked up at her, landing in my hair and covering the dull drabness of my dress with fluffy flakes.
- A gust of wind blew the falling snow in a violent manner and then slowed, as the flakes grew bigger, thicker, and fatter.
- It didn't settle though (and they were very small flakes, almost grains), but despite the wind, it wasn't that cold.
- Snow squalls whiten the dulled brick wall across the street, flakes freezing on contact.
- Outside it was snowing again; fat flakes adhering to the fogged windowpanes like intricate lacework, the clouds looking like lumps of lead against a steel grey background.
- Jennifer looked out over the garden, all covered in a soft blanket of gorgeous white that just grew thicker and thicker with the falling flakes.
- It began Tuesday night, big fluffy, surprisingly un-wet flakes.
- It's still coming down in big fluffy flakes, and it's marvelous.
- It's snowing like mad right now, huge fluffy flakes pelting down.
- I watched the snow fall heavier, the flakes becoming thicker, and knew I should have been cold, but I couldn't feel a thing.
- As we lounged, slapping grey mud on our faces in a bid to cleanse our pores, if not our livers, it began to snow, the flakes descending into the rising steam as if fighting some ancient primeval battle.
- She ran and ran, through the falling flakes that kissed and licked at her little body, and as she ran she held her face to the sky and opened her mouth wide to catch the brilliant white on this most holy of nights.
- At first, it was the fluffy kind that melts when you catch it on your tongue, but now it's more like heavy fat flakes.
- Jamie followed suit, and the two of them started laughing when the sky opened up and the thick, fluffy flakes started floating down on them.
- It took losing sight of Attila, whom I was walking right beside, for me to notice that the flakes were falling hard, thick, and fast.
- And the snow flurries quickly became a constant storm of thick flakes that started to settle deeply on the ground.
- Outside, snow fell: fat flakes adhering to the windows and frosting the glass in translucent white.
- 1.2Archaeology A piece of hard stone chipped off for use as a tool by prehistoric humans.
〔考古〕（史前人类用作工具的）坚硬石片 Example sentencesExamples - Very few flakes or flake tools were recovered from this small occupation.
- Living on the Isle of Wight with a life-long interest in prehistory I have spent many hours field-walking and have a substantial collection of flint tools and flakes.
- The artifacts include hundreds of stone tools and flakes, as well as spear foreshafts made of rhinoceros horn and mammoth tusk.
- A large number of flint-working sites, producing long, slender flakes used for making tools and weapons, were found during archaeological survey work in the early 1970s.
- The flake tools have possible polishing and edge-wear damage evident along one lateral margin.
- 1.3 Thin pieces of crushed, dried food or bait for fish.
脱水食物碎片；小片鱼饵 Example sentencesExamples - A large lump of floating bread flake fished in conjunction with a controller float was the successful method.
- It's an entire wall of jars full of exotic looking powders and flakes and you can buy an eighth of a teaspoon if that's all you want.
- Several roach over that magical 2lb barrier have been banked recently with anglers prepared to sit it out on bread flake being rewarded with the better fish.
- When trotting with a pin in fast water, I often use bread flake as my hook bait.
- The water certainly was not very deep so I decided to use a small self cocking float with 6 lb line and a piece of bread flake as bait.
- Pinch on a large piece of bread flake (which should completely cover the hook) and cast as close as you dare.
- Try a small cage feeder with liquidised bread and a small piece of flake or punch on the hook.
- The Roquefort salad came with many pieces of blue cheese, green salad and flakes of walnuts.
- Hooks are normally between size 6 and 10 baited with bread flake or crust.
- All the locals were legering dry crust or flake for the roach but I was determined to float fish.
- The humble bread flake is as good as anything more high-tech but cat meat and corn will also score.
- Stir in the dried chilli flakes, the length of orange peel and the bay leaves.
- Fish were fed on a mixture of commercial flake and live food once per day.
- Throughout the training and testing period, all fish remaining in the stock tank were fed flake food once daily and bloodworm from a floating feeder twice a week to familiarize them with it.
- If you're a cereal over-loader, nutritionists at suggest forfeiting half your flakes for a piece of fruit or whole-wheat toast.
- I catapulted a big bit of bread flake across the river.
- So I tied up a two-hook rig which had a big hook on the surface carrying a big crust, and a smaller hook 4ins below it carrying a piece of flake that simulated a piece that was sinking from the crust.
- I decided to use a nice piece of bread flake as hook bait.
- Stalking fish with bread flake, worms and big black slugs is both highly enjoyable and productive.
- The baits used are lobworms, cheese paste, meat paste, bread flake and crust.
2North American informal A crazy or eccentric person. 〈北美，非正式〉疯子；行为古怪者 Example sentencesExamples - So, do you now blame your loss on these crazies and flakes?
- 2.1 An unreliable person, especially one who repeatedly fails to keep an appointment or other obligation with little notice or for reasons perceived as selfish
I told my husband she was a flake and she'd never show up
verbflākfleɪk 1no object Come or fall away from a surface in thin pieces. 剥落，成片状脱落 the paint had been flaking off for years 这油漆多年来不停地在脱落。 Example sentencesExamples - The door was metal with no handle, and painted with white paint now flaking off.
- The epidermis has four layers of cells that are constantly flaking off and being renewed.
- It's only the next morning, in daylight for the first time, that I realise his whole body is red raw sunburnt and flaking off all over.
- The rusty pink nail polish that I had put on two months ago was flaking off and falling silently on the ground.
- This film often contains many small cracks and is flaking off of the face of the wall.
- The years-old paint that covered the thin frame was chipped and flaking off, revealing the bare steel underneath.
- And at the detective's feet, a metal bat rested on the floor, dried blood flaking off its end.
- Examining his arms he found that they were peeling in a very disgusting fashion, large patches of skin flaking off.
- The sight of paint flaking off a historic work of art, literally crumbling off in lumps is a disgrace and will reflect badly on us in years to come.
- Today, at 108,000 kilometres, there's paint flaking off the leading edge of the hood, the brakes need work and the dashboard makes a buzzing noise at highway speeds when it's cold.
- If you find one at this price with a decent engine, you can count on the interior looking like a dog's bed and the paint will be oxidized or flaking off in sheets.
- In most cases, they are kept behind rusty black bars in cement blocks where the drab paint is flaking off.
- The door shut softly, brown paint flaking off behind me, fluttering down to the carpet.
- The white paint on the side was flaking off and the steps leading up inside of it were rusty and they creaked as she was pushed inside.
- My eyesight was also heightened considerably, with the bright, whitewashed walls that had large pieces of plaster flaking off the surface standing out fiercely at me.
- On the right hand side there was a small dressing table, its white paint flaking off, and a large wardrobe, which seemed to take up most of the room, in which to store her clothes.
- All the paint was flaking off and some lead work needed doing.
- The surface of the tree was flaking off in great sheets of bark, showering the two with dust made of both dead tree and stone.
- Thick layers of dust look like curtains on the windows of this bus, and the paint is flaking off the rusted seats.
- If you looked hard enough you could see the places where the paint was flaking off.
Synonyms peel off, peel, chip, scale off, blister, come off, come off in layers - 1.1 Lose small fragments from the surface.
表面片状剥落 my nails have started to flake at the ends 我的指甲底部已开始剥落。 Synonyms peel off, peel, chip, scale off, blister, come off, come off in layers
2with object Break or divide (food) into thin pieces. 把（食物）切（或掰）成薄片 切鱼片。 Example sentencesExamples - Add prepared fish to the mixing bowl, flaking the fish into small pieces (I find it easiest to do this with my fingers).
- Leave them for 10 minutes until they have softened, then drain and flake the fish.
- Roll into balls, roll in flour, roll in beaten egg, roll in flaked almonds.
- Dissolve 6 tablespoons flaked pickling salt in 1 gallon of lukewarm water.
- I've switched to flaked coconut and it works just as well.
- Also, the original just uses flaked almonds on the top.
- Remove the skin from the fish, then carefully flake the flesh with your fingers.
- Sprinkle with flaked almonds and decorate with a few chocolate curls.
- One high street shop, Food Emporium Culina, has closed down, so shoppers will have to go elsewhere for their toasted flaked almonds, pine kernels and pistachio nuts.
- Fred prefers a version where I use only flaked almonds (no orange, ginger, salt or sesame seeds).
- Mix and then add the tuna, flaking it up as you go.
- Beware of foods such as hash browns, home fries, jam, molasses, soup mixes, canned vegetables, wine and flaked coconut.
- Baking it helped me use up some things I might not otherwise have used for a while, like raw flaked almonds and condensed milk.
- One nut biscuit which has developed in a slightly different manner is the florentine, which incorporates flaked almonds, candied peel, and dried fruit, and is coated with chocolate, ‘brushed’ to make wavy lines.
- Toss it through 400g of pasta and garnish with toasted flaked almonds and Parmesan shavings.
- 2.1no object (of food, especially when well cooked) come apart in thin pieces.
（食物）散成片 Example sentencesExamples - Place on greased baking sheet and bake at 450F turning once for 8 to 10 minutes or until golden and fish flakes easily when tested with a fork.
- After that time, you can take a peek, and check delicately that the fish flesh flakes easily.
- Add salmon, skinside down, and cook, covered, 10-12 minutes or until fish flakes easily.
- Gently turn over and cook an additional 3-5 minutes or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
- The kind where the crust flakes off in sharp little pieces that stick to the roof of our mouth.
3US informal no object Fail to keep an appointment or other obligation, especially with little notice or for reasons perceived as selfish. he flakes out on plans last minute a real friend won't ever flake on you twice, you had plans, and both times you flaked
OriginMiddle English: the immediate source is unknown, the senses perhaps deriving from different words; probably of Germanic origin and related to flag and flaw. nounflākfleɪk A rack or shelf for storing or drying food such as fish. 晒（或储存）鱼的搁架；晒干（或储存）食物的搁架
OriginMiddle English (denoting a wicker hurdle): perhaps of Scandinavian origin and related to Old Norse flaki, fleki ‘wicker shield’ and Danish flage ‘hurdle’. verbfleɪkflāk [no object]flake outinformal Fall asleep; drop from exhaustion. 〈非正式〉入睡；筋疲力尽 he got back in time to flake out until morning Example sentencesExamples - All flaked out in the garden, we had fun entertaining J (who's two) who is entertainment himself.
- So we had an early dinner and I flaked out on the sofa.
- If I'm going to flake out as soon as I get home, then it's probably worth trying to write during my lunch break.
- We were totally going for it and I didn't notice that the rest of the band were flaking out.
- She flaked out on the back seat, and we were loath to wake her when we arrived.
- ‘I would just flake out in front of the television at night, but now I've decided to get fit and lose weight,’ she says.
- Old women in black dresses sit chatting in groups, dogs flake out in the shade.
- I flaked out long before that, and announced my need to go back for a top-up nap.
- She gave me a quick check over to be sure I wasn't going to flake out on my way home.
- Look at him all flaked out, the poor thing.
- Right now she's in bed flaked out.
- The last week or so has been such a whirl; I've either been rushing about doing stuff, else I've been flaked out knackered from the rushing!
- But now I have one babe asleep in my arms and the other babe is flaked out on the sofa.
- Usually at 9pm I'm flaking out in front of the tv.
Synonyms fall asleep, go to sleep, drop off
OriginLate 15th century (in the senses ‘become languid’ and (of a garment) ‘fall in folds’): variant of obsolete flack and the verb flag. The current sense dates from the 1940s. nounflākfleɪk Nautical A single turn of a coiled rope or hawser. （卷绳或盘索的）一圈
verbflākfleɪk [with object]Nautical 1Lay (a rope) in loose coils in order to prevent it from tangling. （为防缠绕而）把（绳子）松松挽好 a cable had to be flaked out 有根电缆需要挽好。 - 1.1 Lay (a sail) down in folds either side of the boom.
把（帆）在主桅的一侧落下叠好 Example sentencesExamples - Going to the mizzen boom he undid the badly fastened ties, raised the sail and lowered it, flaking it neatly as it came down.
OriginEarly 17th century (as a noun): of unknown origin; compare with German Flechte in the same sense. |