a small amount of food eaten between meals (两餐之间的)点心,小吃 ■a light meal that is eaten in a hurry or in a casual manner 快餐 ■(Austral. informal)a thing that is easy to accomplish (澳,非正式)容易办到的事 it'll be a snack. 这是小菜一碟。
verb
[no obj.]eat a snack 吃小吃 she likes to snack on yogurt. 她喜欢拿酸奶做小吃。
语源
Middle English (originally in the sense 'snap, bite'): from Middle Dutch snac(k), from snacken 'to bite', variant of snappen. Senses relating to food date from the late 17th cent