2016年8月26日 星期五

cronut, ogle, goose (MAKE ACTIVE), beef sth up

These days, they eat cronuts, not crullers, and they ogle Snapchat, not store windows. 


Google gives glimpse of future Gears goodies
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
SAN FRANCISCO--Google showed off working prototypes Wednesday of new possibilities for its Gears project to goose Web browsers' abilities. ...


可頌甜甜圈英語:cronut),別稱牛角甜甜圈,是美國紐約糕點廚師Dominique Ansel發明的糕點時代雜誌把它稱為2013年25個最佳發明之一。[1]
Cronut這個名稱是混成詞,源自於crossaint(牛角麵包)和donut(甜甜圈)。[2]
A traditional cruller (or twister) is a fried pastry often made from a rectangle of dough, with a cut made in the middle that allows it to be pulled over and through itself producing twists in the sides of the pastry. Crullers have been described as resembling "a small, braided torpedo"[1] and having been "a staple of the New England diet since the Pilgrims' day".[1]
ogle
ˈəʊɡ(ə)l/
verb
  1. 1.
    stare at in a lecherous manner.
    "he was ogling her breasts"
    synonyms:leer at, stare at, gaze at, eye, make eyes at, make sheep's eyes at; More
noun
  1. 1.
    a lecherous look.
    "a vaguely erotic ogle"


goose (MAKE ACTIVE)
verb [T] US INFORMAL
to encourage or cause something or someone to be more active
CNNMoney.com - USA
SAN FRANCISCO -(Dow Jones)- Google Inc. (GOOG) Wednesday unveiled tools designed to beef up the power of the web browser as a development platform and ...

beef sth up phrasal verb [M] INFORMAL
to make something stronger or more important:
We need to find some new players to beef up the team.
The company has plans to beef up its production.
Your report on the new car park is fine, but why don't you beef it up a bit with some figures?

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