cook
verb
noun
kʊk verb
1 to prepare food for eating by using heat 烹调; 煮，烧 I,T
Where did you learn to cook?
你在哪里学烹调的？
Cook the sauce over a low heat for 10 minutes.
把这调味汁用低火烧 10 分钟。
cook a meal/dinner/breakfast etc
I’m usually too tired to cook an evening meal.
我经常累得没力气做晚饭。
cook sth for supper/lunch/dinner etc
He was cooking rice for supper.
他在为晚餐烧米饭。
cook sb sth
She cooked them all a good dinner every night.
她每晚给他们烧一顿可口的晚餐。
cook (sth) for sb
I promised I’d cook for them.
我答应了会给他们做饭。
slices of cooked ham
熟的火腿片
a cooked breakfast
煮好的早餐
2 to be prepared for eating by using heat 烧，煮 I
He could smell something delicious cooking.
他闻到了正在烧什么美味的东西。
Hamburgers were cooking in the kitchen.
厨房里在做汉堡包。
3
cook the books
to dishonestly change official records and figures in order to steal money or give people false information 做假账; 篡改资料
The Government was cooking the books and misleading the public.
政府在造假账误导公众。
4
be cooking
to be being planned in a secret way [非正式] 秘密计划; 密谋 informal
They’ve got something cooking, and I don’t think I like it.
他们在搞什么鬼把戏，我觉得不会是好事。
5
be cooking (with gas)
used to say that someone is doing something very well [口] 干得很好，干得出色 spoken
The band’s really cooking tonight.
今晚这支乐队表现极好。
6 AmE
fry
boil
bake
roast
microwave
grill/broil
rare
well-done
7 to prepare food, especially quickly 〔匆忙地〕煮，烧，做〔饭〕
Every night he cooked up a big casserole.
每天晚上他都做一大锅砂锅炖菜。
8 to invent an excuse, reason, plan etc, especially one that is slightly dishonest or unlikely to work [非正式] 造; 编造 informal
the plan that Graham and Dempster had cooked up
格雷厄姆和登普斯特 造出来的计划
noun
9 someone who prepares and cooks food as their job 厨师，炊事员;
He works as a cook in a local restaurant.
他在本地的一家饭店里当厨师。
10
be a good/wonderful/terrible etc cook
to be good or bad at preparing and cooking food 是个好/出色/糟糕等的厨师
11
too many cooks (spoil the broth)
used when you think there are too many people trying to do the same job at the same time, so that the job is not done well 厨师太多烧坏汤，人多添乱