pudding
noun uk/ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/ us/ˈpʊd.ɪŋ/
(SWEET FOOD)
B2 [ C or U ] mainly UK布丁（通常由油酥面团、面粉、面包或大米加上水果制成的热甜食）
a sweet and usually hot dish made with pastry, flour, bread, or rice, and often fruit
a sticky toffee/treacle pudding 黏乎乎的奶油太妃／糖蜜布丁
Is there any more rice pudding? 还有米布丁吗？
[ U ] US布丁（由牛奶、糖、鸡蛋和调味料制成的松软的冷甜食）
a sweet, soft food made from milk, sugar, eggs, and flavouring, eaten cold
chocolate/vanilla/butterscotch pudding 巧克力／香草／黄油糖果布丁
[ U ] UK (informal pud)（一餐中的最后一道菜）甜点
the final part of a meal, when a sweet dish is eaten
What's for pudding? 甜点吃什么？
I thought we'd have trifle for pudding. 我想我们用乳脂松糕作甜点吧。
Synonym: dessert
- More examples
- The pudding was delicately flavoured with vanilla.
- Any more pudding would simply be excessive.
- Grate some nutmeg on top of the pudding.
- That rice pudding was the first solid food he's eaten since his operation.
(NON-SWEET FOOD)
[ C or U ] UK (informal pud)（用肉加面粉做的）布丁，香肠
a hot dish made with pastry or flour that contains or is eaten with meat
steak and kidney pudding 牛排腰子布丁
Idioms
be in the pudding clubidiom UK old-fashioned 怀孕
to be pregnant
over-egg the puddingidiom 夸大其词
to make something seem larger, more important, better, or worse than it really is
We all know insurance claimants who have over-egged the pudding to increase their payouts.
It would be overegging the pudding to describe the system as universally popular. 将该系统描述为盛极一时，这未免过于夸张了。
Synonym: exaggerate
着力过猛
to spoil something by trying too hard to improve it
There are some great moments, but the writer tends to over-egg the pudding with metaphors and similes when all she's describing is a group of women getting through the day. 尽管纪录了一些伟大的时刻，但是作者不过是在叙述一群妇女打发日子的平凡事迹，不需要频频用隐喻和明喻来过度渲染。