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snack

noun
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  1. (informal) a small meal or amount of food, usually eaten in a hurry点心；小吃；快餐
    • a mid-morning snack上午十点左右吃的点心
    • I only have time for a snack at lunchtime.中午，我的时间只够吃点心。🔊🔊
    • Do you serve bar snacks?你这儿卖不卖快餐？🔊🔊
    • a snack lunch快餐午饭
    Topics Cooking and eatinga2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • light
    • little
    • small
    • …
    verb + snack
    • eat
    • get
    • grab
    • …
    snack + noun
    • food
    • lunch
    • meal
    • …
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  2. (Australian English, informal) a thing that is easy to do易办到的事；“小菜一碟”
    • It'll be a snack.这不过是小事一桩。🔊🔊
    3. Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.

snack

verb
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Verb Forms
present simple I / you / we / they snack
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he / she / it snacks
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past simple snacked
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past participle snacked
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-ing form snacking
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  1. to eat snacks between or instead of main meals吃点心（或快餐、小吃）
    • If you snack between meals, try to avoid sugary foods like chocolate.如果你在两餐之间吃点心，尽量避开巧克力之类的含糖食品。
    • snack on something It's healthier to snack on fruit rather than chocolate.作为点心，水果比巧克力更有益于健康。🔊🔊
    • I usually have a light lunch and then snack on fruit and nuts during the afternoon.我通常是午饭稍微吃一点，然后在下午吃些水果和坚果。
    Word OriginMiddle English (originally in the sense ‘snap, bite’): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken ‘to bite’, variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent.