cook: [OE] The noun cook is a lot more ancient than the verb, which in English was a 14thcentury development from the noun. The noun itself was borrowed in Old English times from Vulgar Latin cōcus, a descendant of classical Latin coquus. This is of Indo-European origin, and has been linked with Greek péssein ‘cook, boil’. Also from Latin coquus English gets concoct and biscuit, but cookie [18], a borrowing from Dutch koekje, is, despite its similarity, related not to cook but to cake. => apricot, concoct, cuisine, culinary, kiln, kitchen, pepsin, precocious
cook (n.)
Old English coc, from Vulgar Latin cocus "cook," from Latin coquus, from coquere "to cook, prepare food, ripen, digest, turn over in the mind" from PIE root *pekw- "to cook" (cognates: Oscan popina "kitchen," Sanskrit pakvah "cooked," Greek peptein, Lithuanian kepti "to bake, roast," Old Church Slavonic pecenu "roasted," Welsh poeth "cooked, baked, hot"). Germanic languages had no one native term for all types of cooking, and borrowed the Latin word (Old Saxon kok, Old High German choh, German Koch, Swedish kock).
There is the proverb, the more cooks the worse potage. [Gascoigne, 1575]
cook (v.)
late 14c., from cook (n.); the figurative sense of "to manipulate, falsify, doctor" is from 1630s. Related: Cooked, cooking. To cook with gas is 1930s jive talk.
雙語例句
1. Captain Cook safely navigated his ship without accident for 100 voyages.
庫克船長駕駛的船安全出航100次無事故。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He said that what they were up to would cook Krasky's goose.
他說他們暗中進行的陰謀可能會使克拉斯基的計劃流產(chǎn)。
來自柯林斯例句
3. Put the onions in the pan and cook until lightly browned.
將洋蔥放入平底鍋內(nèi)，炒至略呈棕色。
來自柯林斯例句
4. As the egg whites cook, they coagulate and rise to the surface.