餡餅（pie）和蛋糕（cake）是老外愛吃的東西。因為與他們的日常生活密切相關(guān)，所以被用以喻人喻事也就不足為怪了。

1. take the cake: 名列第一；優(yōu)勝

Of all the hard-hearted women, she takes the cake.
女性中能像她那么鐵石心腸的，恐怕再也沒誰了。

2. eat humble pie: 忍氣吞聲；低頭認罪

I think I'm right, but if I'm wrong, I'll eat humble pie.
我覺得我是對的。不過如果能證明我錯，我甘愿認罪。

3. go/sell like hot cakes: 熱銷，暢銷

I'm sure this new line of coats will go like hot cakes.
我確信這種新款外套一定會暢銷。

4. a?piece of cake/as easy as pie: 小菜一碟，小事一樁

Glad to help. It was a piece of cake.
很高興能幫上忙。這一點也不難。

5. eat one's cake and have it too: 得其利而無其害，兩者兼得（多用于否定句中）

Don't buy a car if you want to walk and stay healthy. You can't eat your cake and have it too.
如果你想要走路、想要保持健康，就別買車。魚和熊掌不可兼得。

6. pie in the sky: 渺茫的希望

Their plans to set up their own business are just pie in the sky.
他們創(chuàng)辦自己公司的計劃只不過是空想罷了。

7. cakes and ale: 歡樂，物質(zhì)享受，生活中的好東西（ale是一種酒）

Any reasonable person knows that life is not all cakes and ale.
任何理性的人都知道，生活不可能總是充滿鮮花和美酒。

8. a piece (or slice) of the pie: 一份好處，一杯羹

When the ?business ?started making ?money, everyone in his ?family ?wanted a piece of the ?pie.
他的生意開始賺錢后，家里每個人都想分一杯羹。

（中國日報網(wǎng)英語點津 杜娟）