/beɪk ||; bek/verb[I,T] 1 to cook or be cooked in an oven in dry heat 烘；烤烘；烤: I could smell bread baking in the oven. 我闻得到烤炉里的烘面包味。On his birthday she baked him a cake. 他生日那天，她为他烤了一个蛋糕。 ☞Look at the note at cook. 参看 cook 的注释。
2 to become or to make sth hard by heating it （使）因受热变硬；烘焙: The hot sun baked the earth. 烈日把土壤烤得又干又硬。