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candy

noun
🔊/ˈkændi/
🔊/ˈkændi/
 [uncountable, countable]
(plural candies)
(North American English)Idioms
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  1. sweet food made of sugar and/or chocolate, eaten between meals; a piece of this糖果；巧克力；一块糖（或巧克力） synonym sweet
    • a box of candy一盒糖果
    • a candy store糖果店
    • a candy bar一条巧克力
    • Who wants the last piece of candy?谁想要这最后一块糖？🔊🔊
    • She had enough candies in her pocket for all the children.她口袋里有足够的糖果供所有孩子使用。
    see also arm candy, brain candy, eye candy, hard candy, penny candy, rock candyTopics Fooda2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • butterscotch
    • chocolate
    • licorice
    • …
    verb + candy
    • eat
    • unwrap
    • hand out
    • …
    candy + noun
    • wrapper
    • bar
    • aisle
    • …
    phrases
    • like taking candy from a baby
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    Word Originmid 17th cent. (as a verb): the noun use is from late Middle English sugar-candy, from French sucre candi ‘crystallized sugar’, from Arabic sukkar ‘sugar’ + qandī ‘candied’, based on Sanskrit khaṇḍa ‘fragment’.
Idioms
be like taking candy from a baby
  1. (informal) used to emphasize how easy it is to do something像从娃娃手里抢糖吃；手到擒来；轻而易举
    • I thought it was going to be difficult to get funding for the project, but in the end it was like taking candy from a baby.我原以为为项目筹集资金会很困难，没想到这么容易，犹如囊中取物。