biscuit

名词 biscuit:

1. small round bread leavened with baking-powder or soda
2. any of various small flat sweet cakes (`biscuit' is the British term)
   同义词：cookie, cooky

1. I caught her with her fingers in the biscuit tin.
   我看见她手指还在饼乾盒里呢。
2. The manufacturers had to pay more money than they had anticipated, for they bought the biscuit from the student for$4800.
   饼干公司不得不付出比他们预计的还要多得多的钱，因为他们花了4800美元从那位大学生那里买下了那块饼干。
3. A thin, crisp wafer or biscuit, usually made of unsweetened dough.
   薄脆饼干一种通常由不含糖的生面团做成的薄脆饼干
4. He had some biscuits before the dinner.
   晚饭前，他吃了一些饼干。

bis.cuit

n.（名词）
【复数】 bis.cuits
A small cake of shortened bread leavened with baking powder or soda.
饼干：由烘烤剂或苏打发酵制成的松脆的小块点心
Chiefly British
【多用于英国】
A thin, crisp cracker.
薄而脆的饼干
A cookie.
小点心
Color A pale brown.
【色彩】 浅褐色
pl. biscuit Clay that has been fired once but not glazed.Also called In this sense, also called bisque 2
【复数】 biscuit 烧过两次但未上釉的粘土也作 在此意义上也可称作 bisque2

来源：
Middle English bisquit
中古英语 bisquit
from Old French biscuit
源自 古法语 biscuit
from Medieval Latin bis coctus
源自 中世纪拉丁语 bis coctus
Latin bis [twice] * see dwo-
拉丁语 bis [两次] *参见 dwo-
Latin coctus [past participle of] coquere [to cook] * see pek w-
拉丁语 coctus [] coquere的过去分词 [做饭] *参见 pek w-