a baked dish of fruit or meat and/or vegetables with pastry on the bottom, sides and top 肉馅饼；蔬菜馅饼 a slice of apple pie 一块苹果派 a steak and kidney pie 牛肉腰子馅饼 Help yourself to some more pie. 请随意再吃些果馅饼吧。 What’s the filling in these pies? 这些馅饼是什么馅的？ a pie dish 一份果馅饼
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- apple
- chicken
- meat
- …
- piece
- slice
- bake
- cook
- make
- …
- filling
- dish
- pan
- …
- in a/the pie
Word OriginMiddle English: probably the same word as pie, used in the naming of birds; the various combinations of ingredients being compared to objects randomly collected by a magpie.
Idioms
as American as apple pie
used to say that something is typical of America 典型美国式的；地道美国式的
as easy as anything/as pie/as ABC/as falling off a log
- (informal)
very easy or very easily 十分容易；极容易；轻而易举 The whole procedure is as easy as ABC. 整个程序和ABC一样简单。 Fooling him was as easy as falling off a log. 愚弄他就像从木头上掉下来一样容易。
as nice as pie
- (informal)
very kind and friendly, especially when you are not expecting it 非常友好的，很善良的（尤指出乎意料）
eat humble pie
(North American English also eat crow)
to say and show that you are sorry for a mistake that you made 认错；道歉；赔罪
have a finger in every pie
- (informal)
to be involved in a lot of different activities and have influence over them, especially when other people think that this is annoying 多管闲事；到处干预
a piece/slice/share of the pie
(British English also a slice/share of the cake)
a share of the available money or benefits that you believe you have a right to （金钱、利润等的）一份；一杯羹 The company is demanding a larger slice of the corporate pie. 该公司要求从公司蛋糕中分得更大的一块。
pie in the sky