1 any sweet food that is eaten at the end of a meal (餐后)甜点:
What's for pudding today?今天的甜点是什么?☞ Dessert is more formal. dessert用于较正式的场合。 ☞Look at sweet. 参看sweet。
2 a type of sweet food that is made from bread, flour or rice with eggs, milk, etc 布丁(用面包、面粉或米拌鸡蛋、牛奶等制成):
rice pudding大米布丁
pudding/ˋpUdIŋ; ˈpʊdIŋ/n [C,U]1 a sweet food made with milk, eggs, sugar, flour etc 布丁: chocolate pudding 巧克力布丁2 BrE sweet food eaten at the end of a meal【英】〔餐末食用的〕甜点心: What's for pudding? 甜点吃什么?
puddingpuddingpuddingsnoun (British)1something sweet that you eat at the end of a mealsame meaningdessert: ‘What's for pudding?’ ‘Fruit.’2a hot sweet dish, often like a cake, that you eat at the end of a meal: Christmas pudding