For so long his world had centred round her just being here--patching the children’sgrazed knees,helping to make wobbly-legged gingerbread men, admiring jars of tadpoles and Pi-casso-gone-mad paintings.

好久好久了，他的世界就是以她为中心，就是她总在身边给孩子们擦伤的膝盖涂药，一起做腿脚弯弯曲曲的姜饼人，观看一罐罐的蝌蚪，欣赏毕加索发了疯似的画。

It takes the gilt off the gingerbread when you arrive on holiday only to find that the room you’ve booked has been allocated to someone else.

你假日到达旅馆，却发现自己定的房间分给了别人，那才令人扫兴呢。

He bought us some gingerbread works as present when he returned from the beach

他从海滨回来的时候给我们买了一些华而不实的工艺品做礼物。

I wouldn’t go halves in the toffee and gingerbread on purpose to save the money

为了把钱省下来，我不肯把太妃糖和甜饼分给别人。

The high taxes that I paid took the gilt off the gingerbread .

我缴付的高额税款除去了我大部分的收入。

I like best the atmosphere at a live pop concert,and merely listening to a recording at home takes the gilt off the gingerbread .

我最喜欢现场通俗音乐会的气氛，因此只是在家里听录间实在令人扫兴。

“The Gingerbread Houses really were a blend of European styles with vernacular traditions from Haiti, ” WMF’s Avrami said.

“姜饼屋真正做了欧洲风格与本地传统的融合，”世界文化遗产基金会的Avrami说。

“Where are you going, Gingerbread Man? ” said the bear.

“你去哪里啊，姜饼人？”熊问。

Android users have been waiting for the just released Gingerbread upgrade.

Android用户一直在期待刚刚发布的姜饼升级版。

But Naver can’t win by locking Koreans inside the gingerbread house.

但Naver并不能靠把韩国人锁在这栋姜饼屋内取胜。

Settled by German and Swiss immigrants, these once-quaint villages of gingerbread architecture have turned into bustling cities.

德国和瑞士移民来此定居，这些原本古色古香的姜饼屋式建筑村庄已变成繁忙的城市。

Hansel reached up on tiptoe, and breaking off a piece of the gingerbread , he began to eat with all his might, for he was very hungry.

汉斯掂着脚尖伸出手，弄瞎了一片姜饼，他开始尽量吃，因为他太饿了。

Gingerbread and whipped cream was Jem’s favourite dessert. But tonight it had no charm to soothe his stormy soul.

姜饼和鲜奶油是杰姆最喜欢的甜点，但今晚它们却不足以平复他那澎湃的灵魂。

But on went Gingerbread Man, saying;

姜饼人边跑，边说：

To enjoy the same chilly gingerbread coffee flavor, simply swap the latte for iced coffee and drop down a size.

你如果改用小一号的杯子，并把其中的拿铁换成冰咖啡，同样也能享受到姜饼味咖啡的风味。

People drink beer, wine and the usual beverages. For desert there’s coffee, gingerbread cookies and plum pudding.

人们还喝啤酒、红白酒、以及其它的饮料。至于甜点方面，包括了咖啡、姜饼和干果布丁。

Last week Cameron was chastised by Gingerbread , the single parents’ charity, for championing marriage.

上周卡梅隆接受了Gingerbread的惩罚，这是一个倡导单亲家庭婚姻的慈善团体。

I’ve run from an old woman And an old man, And a cow! Run, run, as fast as you can, You can’t catch me, I’m the gingerbread man!

我跑过一个老太婆，一个老头，还有一头牛，跑啊，跑啊，快点跑。你们抓不到我，我是小姜饼人。

I climb up the stone steps towards the little building, a miniature house that looks as though it might be made out of gingerbread .

我沿着石阶向上爬到小屋跟前，它看起来就像是用姜饼制成的微型房子。

I like the atmosphere best at a live pop concert, and merely listening to a recording at home takes the gilt off the gingerbread .

我最喜欢现场流行音乐会的气氛，只在家里听录音实在令人扫兴。

And to think all I made over Christmas was a lame gingerbread whorehouse.

想想吧，我整个圣诞节都在用姜饼薄片盖一座妓院。

“Make me a gingerbread man, mother, ” said the little boy.

小男孩说道：“妈妈，给我做一个姜饼人吧。”

The recipe called for more than 150 pounds of gingerbread dough and 250 lbs of white chocolate.

一个姜汁饼屋要耗费150磅姜汁面团，250（英）磅的白巧克力。

Bill Doucette led the study of the gingerbread man. He is a chemist at Utah State University.

犹他州州立大学的化学家比尔·多赛特领导了这个对姜饼人的研究。

That may be about to change, however, with the arrival of Gingerbread , the latest version of Google’s Android mobile operating system.

在最新版本的谷歌Android移动操作系统最新版本姜饼（Gingerbread）发布之后，这个现象即将改观。

Colorful gingerbread houses like this one are scattered throughout Port-au-Prince.

这些色彩艳丽的房子零零散散的分布在太子港。

Make gingerbread cookies and bring them to a homeless shelter.

做一点姜饼曲奇，带他们去流浪者接待所。

gingerbread-work-garnish

船首尾的)装饰

take the gilt off gingerbread

剥去诱人的外衣

take the gilt off the gingerbread

1.剥去诱人的外衣

taken the gilt off the gingerbread

vbl.剥去诱人的外衣,使人感到空欢喜,令人扫兴