(noun.) a celebrity who receives much acclaim and attention; 'he was the toast of the town'.
(verb.) propose a toast to; 'Let us toast the birthday girl!'; 'Let's drink to the New Year'.
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This made it very difficult for the housewife to serve the breakfast hot, and particularly the toast, which is a favorite dish of our breakfast table. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
The necessary steps back and forth from the breakfast room to the kitchen to prepare hot, crunchy toast made this portion of breakfast-getting a not agreeable feature. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
Some more toast. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
I always propose that toast to the company, and drink Mary to myself. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
I now propose a toast, as my 'friend and pardner, Sairy Gamp', says. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
You may give him a little tea, ma'am, and some dry toast without any butter. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
Mr. Stiggins took up a fresh piece of toast, and groaned heavily. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
He swore ominous oaths over the drugged beer of alehouses, and drank strange toasts in fiery British gin. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Birkin decided that he detested toasts, and footmen, and assemblies, and mankind altogether, in most of its aspects. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯.恋爱中的女人.
Nice toasts these Redheads will be drinking, wherever we buy it. 查尔斯·狄更斯.双城记.
We celebrated a lady's birthday anniversary with toasts, speeches, a poem, and so forth. 马克·吐温.傻子出国记.
Suppose the customary loyal toasts drunk; the King's health, the Queen's with deafening vivats; that of the nation 'omitted,' or even 'rejected. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯.世界史纲.
I ground and beat them between two stones; then took water, and made them into a paste or cake, which I toasted at the fire and eat warm with milk. 乔纳森·斯威夫特.格列佛游记.
Fox had toasted her. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
Here, Hal--here is your toasted oatcake; eat and live! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
Then toasted them all, To all the illusioned ones. 欧内斯特·海明威.丧钟为谁而鸣.
That sausage you toasted was his, and he was in all respects a first-rater. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
Bread can be toasted by electricity. 伯莎M.克拉克.科学通论.
This one blacked his shoes: that toasted his bread, others would fag out, and give him balls at cricket during whole summer afternoons. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷.名利场.
And if it was a toasting-fork, you'd go into brass and do yourself no credit. 查尔斯·狄更斯.远大前程.
She placed on the table a glass of new milk, a plate of something which looked not unlike leather, and a utensil which resembled a toasting-fork. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特.雪莉.
She had seen Agnes, she told me while she was toasting. 查尔斯·狄更斯.大卫·科波菲尔.
No, it's the toasting fork, with Mother's shoe on it instead of the bread. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特.小妇人.
Watch-guards and toasting-forks were alike at a discount, and pencil-cases and sponges were a drug in the market. 查尔斯·狄更斯.匹克威克外传.
So did the Jew himself, toasting-fork in hand. 查尔斯·狄更斯.雾都孤儿.
The laboratory witnessed high times that night, for all were in the best of humor, and many a bottle was drained in toasting the health of Edison and the aldermen. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔.爱迪生的生平和发明.