A piece of cake 是什么意思？“小菜一碟”别漏掉 a

A piece of cake 表示一件事非常容易，做起来毫不费劲。字面意思是一块蛋糕：吃一块蛋糕并不难，这个画面很好记。它属于口语表达，可以对朋友和同事说；在 IELTS 作文中，用 easy 或 straightforward 更合适。

什么情境适合说 piece of cake？

练习在对话中灵活使用英语词汇

be + a piece of cake; a piece of cake + for + person; Piece of cake! (short reply)

The tax form was a piece of cake for my sister, who works as an accountant.
Setting up the new printer was a piece of cake, and it only took five minutes.
After years of Moscow traffic, driving in a small English town was a piece of cake.

修改前I'm sure the interview will be piece of cake for you.

修改后I'm sure the interview will be a piece of cake for you.

学习者有时把这个习语记成不带 a 的固定短语。但这里的 piece 和 a piece of paper、a piece of advice 中一样，在完整句子里需要 a。修改只补上这个词：will be a piece of cake。

省略句子开头的简短回答可以不带冠词。别人问 Can you fix my bike by Saturday?，你可以回答 Sure, piece of cake。完整句子中则需要 a：It was a piece of cake。

I was nervous about the exam, but the first part was ___ and I finished it in ten minutes.

(a piece of cake / a real challenge)

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a piece of cake — 第一部分十分钟就做完了，而且 but 把实际情况与之前的紧张形成对比：任务原来很简单，所以选 a piece of cake。A real challenge 表示很大的挑战，与这里迅速完成的意思不符。

想一件原本让你担心、后来却很容易完成的任务。写出是什么任务，并说明为什么做起来很顺利。

I was worried about my first presentation in English, but it was a piece of cake because I had practised it with a friend five times.

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