0 sliced bread made warm, crisp (= hard enough to break), and brown by being put near a high heat -- 烤麵包片,吐司
1 an expression of good wishes or respect for someone that involves holding up and then drinking from a glass of alcohol, especially wine, after a short speech -- 祝酒;乾杯
2 to make bread or other food warm, crisp (= hard enough to break), and brown by putting it near a high heat -- 烤,烘
3 to hold up your glass and then drink as an expression of good wishes or respect -- 為…乾杯
I am afraid the exuberant gentleman at the dinner who proposed the toast did not sufficiently think where the analogy might lead him.
Up at 6.15, made first mate tea and toast then clear supper things away and get ready for two breakfast at 7.45am, then 10 at 8 o'clock.
Not all the toasts were so political.
So limited are the staples materials and real estate of an atoll-dweller that less toast and tea, beans, bread and chips which are the staples of poor people's diets.
Good health is such an integral part of human well-being that, in many languages, everyday greetings and mealtime toasts are synonymous with best wishes for it.
Note that, in our study, accuracy on word-final /s/+stop clusters, as in toast /toost/, was relatively poor.
I lived on toast and soup and things like that.
The sandwich became emblematic of a technological artifact, especially if constructed on white toast.