- [countable] (British English)
a small flat dry cake for one person, usually sweet, and baked until hard 饼干 a packet/tin of chocolate biscuits 一包/一听巧克力饼干 a selection of cheese biscuits 各种乳酪饼干 The cake has a biscuit base (= one made from crushed biscuits). 这种蛋糕有饼干底座。 We were offered a cup of tea and some biscuits. 有人给了我们一杯茶和一些饼干。
Extra ExamplesTopics Fooda2Frank always dunks his biscuits in his tea. 弗兰克总是把饼干泡在茶里吃。 He brushed the biscuit crumbs from his jacket. 他拂去夹克衫上的饼干屑。 He was cutting biscuits out and putting them on a baking tray. 他切好饼干，然后放在烤盘里。 a packet of coconut biscuits 一包椰蓉饼干
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- dry
- hard
- flaky
- …
- box
- packet
- tin
- …
- eat
- have
- nibble
- …
- barrel
- tin
- crumbs
- …
- cheese and biscuits
- biscuits and gravy
- [countable] (North American English)
a soft bread roll, often eaten with gravy 松饼（食用时常佐以肉汁） - [uncountable]
a pale yellow-brown colour 淡黄褐色 More Like This Silent lettersSilent letters
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French bescuit, based on Latin bis ‘twice’ + coctus, past participle of coquere ‘to cook’ (so named because originally biscuits were cooked in a twofold process: first baked and then dried out in a slow oven so that they would keep).
Idioms
take the biscuit (British English)
(also take the cake North American English, British English)