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a + muffin
muffin 是可数名词，单数形式前要用冠词 a。
She ate a muffin with her coffee.
她喝咖啡时吃了一个松饼。
松饼
先理解核心含义，再看它在真实句子里的用法。
松饼
a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
She ate a muffin with her coffee.
她喝咖啡时吃了一个松饼。
一种玛芬状烘培食品(如玉米面包、香蕉面包或巧克力面团),有时上釉但通常无糖霜,尤其作为早餐食用(与作为甜点的杯形蛋糕相对)。
A cupcake-shaped baked good (for example of cornbread, banana bread, or a chocolate dough), sometimes glazed but typically without frosting, eaten especially for breakfast (in contrast to a cupcake, which is a dessert).
用杯形烤盘烘烤的甜快速面包
a sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan
迷人的俊俏青年男子。
A charming, attractive young man.
Java网络启动协议中类似于cookie的一种机制,允许浏览器中运行的程序在客户端机器上执行操作。
A mechanism used in the Java Network Launching Protocol analogous to the cookie mechanism and which permits a program running in a browser to perform operations on a client machine.
She baked a batch of blueberry muffins for the school bake sale.
她为学校义卖烤了一批蓝莓松饼。
I had a muffin and a cup of coffee for breakfast this morning.
今天早饭我吃了一个松饼，喝了一杯咖啡。
This recipe makes twelve muffins if you fill each cup two-thirds full.
如果你把每个模具杯装到三分之二满，这个食谱能做十二个松饼。
muffin 是可数名词，单数形式前要用冠词 a。
She ate a muffin with her coffee.
她喝咖啡时吃了一个松饼。
复数形式 muffins 可用于泛指，不加冠词。
Muffins are a popular breakfast food.
松饼是一种很受欢迎的早餐食物。
Not this
I ate muffin for breakfast.
Use this
I ate a muffin for breakfast.
muffin 是可数名词，单数不能裸用，需要加冠词 a/an 或 the；中文没有冠词，所以容易漏掉 a。
Not this
There are many muffin in the box.
Use this
There are many muffins in the box.
muffin 是可数名词，many 后应接复数名词 muffins，需加 -s；中文名词没有复数词尾，所以容易漏掉 s。
Not this
I bought two blueberries muffins.
Use this
I bought two blueberry muffins.
英语中名词作定语修饰另一个名词时通常用单数，blueberry muffin 而不是 blueberries muffin；中文里“蓝莓马芬”看不出单复数，容易误加 s。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
蓝莓松饼
I had a blueberry muffin with my coffee this morning.
今天早上我喝咖啡时吃了一个蓝莓松饼。
巧克力豆松饼
She baked chocolate chip muffins for the school bake sale.
她为学校烘焙义卖烤了巧克力豆松饼。
麦麸松饼
A bran muffin is a healthier choice for breakfast.
早餐吃麦麸松饼是更健康的选择。
玉米松饼
This recipe makes twelve corn muffins.
这个食谱可以做十二个玉米松饼。
松饼模具
Grease the muffin tin before pouring in the batter.
倒入面糊前先给松饼模具抹油。
（低腰裤上方挤出的）一圈腰腹赘肉
Those jeans are so low-rise they give everyone a muffin top.
那条牛仔裤腰太低，谁穿上裤腰上方都会挤出一圈赘肉。
性感帅哥；大帅哥
The movie star was once considered the ultimate stud muffin of the 1980s.
这位电影明星曾被视作20世纪80年代的头号性感男神。
你认识松饼人吗？
The kindergarten class sang "Do you know the muffin man?" during their morning circle.
幼儿园班级在晨间圈上唱了《你认识松饼人吗？》。
如果你给驼鹿一块松饼，他就会想要一些果酱来搭配。
In Laura Numeroff's children's classic, if you give a moose a muffin, he'll want some jam to go with it.
在劳拉·努梅罗夫的儿童经典绘本中，如果你给驼鹿一块松饼，他就会想要一些果酱来搭配。
Use muffin naturally, then get feedback on meaning, tone, grammar, and phrasing.
Revisit a common error or keep this word in your review list.
把“muffin”记成“马芬”的音译，想象杯形烤盘里鼓起的松饼，像顶小圆帽。
语域：neutral 常见场景：bakery、breakfast、coffee shop 该词是日常食品名词，通常用于面包店、早餐或咖啡馆等日常场合，比较中性；正式书面语中较少见，但不算俚语。
真正同韵词：puffin /ˈpʌfən/。近音词：stuffing /ˈstʌfɪŋ/、rough /rʌf/（都含 /ʌf/）。拼写陷阱：cough /kɒf/ 和 though /ðoʊ/ 中的 -ough 发音完全不同，不可按 muffin 的 -uff 类推。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.