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sweet food made of sugar and/or chocolate, eaten between meals; a piece of this 糖果；巧克力；一塊糖（或巧克力） a box of candy 一盒糖果 a candy store 糖果店 a candy bar 一條巧克力 Who wants the last piece of candy? 誰想要這最後一塊糖？ She had enough candies in her pocket for all the children. 她口袋裏有足夠所有孩子吃的糖果。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- butterscotch
- chocolate
- licorice
- …
- eat
- unwrap
- hand out
- …
- wrapper
- bar
- aisle
- …
- like taking candy from a baby
Word Originmid 17th cent. (as a verb): the noun use is from late Middle English sugar-candy, from French sucre candi ‘crystallized sugar’, from Arabic sukkar ‘sugar’ + qandī ‘candied’, based on Sanskrit khaṇḍa ‘fragment’.
Idioms
be like taking candy from a baby
- (informal)
used to emphasize how easy it is to do something 像從娃娃手裏搶糖吃；手到擒來；輕而易舉 I thought it was going to be difficult to get funding for the project, but in the end it was like taking candy from a baby. 我原以爲爲項目籌集資金會很困難，沒想到這麽容易，猶如囊中取物。