breakfast: [15] Breakfast is the first food one eats in the morning, thereby literally ‘breaking’ the night’s ‘fast’. The word is first recorded in a text of 1463: ‘Expenses in breakfast, xjd’. It is a lexicalization of the phrase ‘break one’s fast’, which itself seems to have originated in the 14th century.
breakfast (n.)
mid-15c., from break (v.) + fast (n.). An Old English word for it was undernmete (see undern), also morgenmete "morning meal.". The verb is recorded from 1670s. Related: Breakfasted; breakfasting.
Spanish almuerzo "lunch," but formerly and still locally "breakfast," is from Latin admorsus, past participle of admordere "to bite into," from ad- "to" + mordere "to bite." In common with almuerzo, words for "breakfast" tend over time to shift in meaning toward "lunch;" compare French déjeuner "breakfast," later "lunch" (equivalent of Spanish desayuno "breakfast"), both from Vulgar Latin *disieiunare "to breakfast," from Latin dis- "apart, in a different direction from" + ieiunare, jejunare "fast" (see jejune; also compare dine). German Frühstück is from Middle High German vruostücke, literally "early bit."
实用例句
1. Breakfast television arrived in British life precisely a decade ago.
准确地说，早间电视节目于10年前进入英国人的生活。
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2. I bet you make breakfast and wash up their plates, too.
我肯定是你做的早餐并且清洗了他们的餐具。
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3. At breakfast next morning my two grandsons were clamouring to go swimming.
第二天早饭时，我那两个孙子嚷嚷着要去游泳。
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4. Sylvia shook hands. "Well, you go get yourselves some breakfast."
西尔维娅摆了摆手说：“嗯，你们自己去吃些早餐吧。”
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5. A breakfast will be served to those who last out till dawn!
