carrot cake

短语

胡萝卜蛋糕

词形变化

carrot cakes 复数 carrot cakes

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A sweet cake, often iced, containing grated carrot.

    胡萝卜蛋糕

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  2. 2.

    Turnip cake; radish cake (a savoury cake containing radish, usually pan-fried).

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  3. 3.

    Synonym of chai tow kway (“a dish of stir-fried radish cakes and eggs”).

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词源

The Singaporean senses are calque of Hokkien 菜頭粿 /菜头粿 (chhài-thâu-kóe / chhài-thâu-ké / chhài-thâu-kér, literally “radish cake”), which may have arisen from a confusion between Hokkien 菜頭 /菜头 (chhài-thâu, “radish”) and 紅菜頭 /红菜头 (âng-chhài-thâu, “carrot”, literally “red radish”).

来源：wiktionary