名詞 gingerbread:

1. cake flavored with ginger

1. One of my colleagues likes to eat gingerbread nut.
   我的一個(gè)同事喜歡吃姜汁餅干。
2. He bought us some gingerbread works as present when he returned from the beach.
   他從海濱回來(lái)的時(shí)候給我們買(mǎi)了一些華而不實(shí)的工藝品做禮物。

gin.ger.bread

n.（名詞）

A dark molasses cake flavored with ginger.
姜味糕點(diǎn)，蛋糕：一種有生姜味的黑糖蜜糕點(diǎn)
A soft molasses and ginger cookie cut in various shapes, sometimes elaborately decorated.
姜餅：一種軟的糖蜜生姜餅干，切成各種形狀，有時(shí)加以精致的修飾

Elaborate ornamentation.
精致裝飾品
Superfluous or tasteless embellishment, especially in architecture.
華而不實(shí)的裝飾：不切實(shí)際的或沒(méi)品味的裝飾，尤指建筑物

來(lái)源：
Middle English gingebred [a stiff pudding, preserved ginger]
中古英語(yǔ) gingebred [一種硬布丁，腌制的生姜]
alteration influenced by bred, bread [bread] * see bread
受 bred的影響, bread [面包] *參見(jiàn) bread
of Old French gingembrat
古法語(yǔ) gingembrat的變化
from Medieval Latin *gingibr3tum
源自 中世紀(jì)拉丁語(yǔ) *gingibr3tum
from gingiber [ginger] * see ginger
源自 gingiber [生姜] *參見(jiàn) ginger

【引伸】
gin.gerbread.
adj.（形容詞）
gin.gerbread.y
adj.（形容詞）