(单词翻译:单击)
Welcome to English in a Minute!
欢迎来到《一分钟英语》栏目！
Do you find American idioms hard to understand?
你有没有发现美国习语很难理解？
It’s our goal to make learning them "a piece of cake".
我们的目标就是使学习它们小菜一碟。
Everyone in America knows this idiom because it’s so easy.
美国所有人都知道这个习语，因为它非常简单。
Hey! How did you do on the exam? I got an A. The exam was a piece of cake.
嘿！你考试怎么样？我得了A。考试太简单了。
In American English, when you say something is a “piece of cake,“ it means it is very easy to do.
美式英语中，当你形容某物是“一块蛋糕，”这就意味着某物非常简单。
In the 19th and early 20th centuries,African Americans started "cake walks."
在19世纪和20世纪早期，非裔美国人开创了“蛋糕步”。
They walked or danced around a cake in pairs, and the best couple won the cake.
他们成对围绕着一块蛋糕迈步子或者跳舞，而最佳的搭档获得蛋糕。
This is how the idioms “cake walk“ and “piece of cake“ came about, both meaning that something is very easy to do.
这就是习语“蛋糕步”和“一块蛋糕”的由来，意味着某事十分简单。
And that’s English in a Minute!
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