1.cook的基本意思是“烹调,煮,烧”“做饭菜”,泛指通过加热把食物做熟。引申可指“筹划,篡改”等。
2.cook也可表示某事“在筹划中或经筹划而发生”,此时常用于进行体。
3.cook既可用作及物动词,也可用作不及物动词。用作及物动词时可接名词或代词作宾语,也可接双宾语,其间接宾语可转化为介词for的宾语；用作不及物动词时常以物作主语,主动形式常可表示被动意义。
4.cook只用于食品，而不用于饮料。
5.cook up常可用于借喻,意为“编造”。

cook out(v.+adv.)
在室外做饭 cook food out of doors
▲cook out
Sometimes we cook out.我们有时在外面做饭。
We're cooking out tonight; it's too hot indoors.今夜我们在屋外做饭,屋里太热了。

cook up(v.+adv.)
▲cook sth ⇔ up
1.快速做(饭等) cook quickly
I will cook up the dinner for you.我会很快为你做好晚饭的。
Could you cook up the meal?你能快点把饭做好吗?
You'd better cook the pie up.你最好快点把馅饼做好。
◇ 用于be ～ed结构
The meal was cooked up.饭很快就做好了。
The meat is cooked up, but it isn't ours.肉很快就做好了,但不是我们的。
2.编造 invent; think of
Some of the younger workers cooked up a plan for cheating the firm.一些年轻人炮制了一个欺骗商行的计划。
He cooked up the story.那个情节是他编造的。
If the police catch us, shall we be able to cook up a story?如果警察抓住我们,我们能编出一套瞎话来吗?
You children will cook up any excuse not to do your work.你们这些孩子会编出种种不做作业的借口。
She cooked up some story about having to stay at home to look after her aged mother.她编造了不得不呆在家里照顾年迈母亲的谎话。

用作不及物动词
▲S+～(+A)
Every woman should learn to cook.每一位妇女都应该学会做饭。
I will cook all day tomorrow.明天一天我来做饭。
These apples cook well.这种苹果适于蒸煮。
What's cooking?发生了什么事?
Something was cooking, but what, how, why?肯定有事发生了,可是什么事呢?是怎么发生的?又为什么发生呢?
用作及物动词
▲S+～+n./pron.
She is cooking the fish.她在煮鱼。
He cooked his meals on a gas stove.他在煤气灶上做饭。
Who will cook the dinner?谁来做晚餐?
He is quite capable of cooking the evidence.筹划这个广告足以证明他很有才能。
◇ 用于be ～ed结构
The dinner was well cooked and incredibly plentiful.晚餐做得很好,而且特别丰盛。
用作双宾动词
▲S+～+pron./n.+n./pron.
Mother cooked us a good meal.妈妈给我们做了一顿可口的饭。
Could you cook us meat tonight?今天晚上你能给我们做肉吗?
I cooked myself a simple breakfast.我给自己做了一顿简单的早饭。
Shall I cook you some food?我给你做点吃的好吗?
▲S+～+n./pron.+for pron./n.
Cook a meal for me, please.请为我做一顿饭。
Could you cook this meat for him?你能给他做这些肉吗?
Please cook a cake for the little boy.请给这个小男孩做个蛋糕。
其他
▲v-ing as Attrib.
Everybody is being secretive:there's something cooking.每个人都鬼鬼祟祟的,一定出了什么事情。

cook, fix, get, make, prepare
这组词都可以表示“做”,其区别是:cook只用于食品而不用于饮料; 其他几个词都可以用于饮料。make和get可以互换; 而prepare和fix则强调准备的过程。例如:
She is cooking in the kitchen.她在厨房里做饭。
Let me fix you a drink!我来为你倒杯饮料。
He got〔made〕 himself a cup of coffee.他给自己冲了杯咖啡。
You shouldn't have troubled yourself to prepare such a feast!你本不该准备这样丰盛的饭菜,这样太麻烦你了。

我来给你煮点面条好吗?
［误］  Shall I cook some noodles to you?
［正］  Shall I cook some noodles for you?
［正］  Shall I cook you some noodles?
［析］  cook接双宾语时，其间接宾语可转化为介词for的宾语,而不用介词to。

1.cook用作名词时，意思是“做饭的人”,多指以做饭为职业者,即“厨师”。
2.cook是可数名词,表示私人厨师时可不加冠词,首字母常大写。

short-order cook
快餐 snack
The new diner needs another short-order cook.新来的客人又要了一份快餐。

too many cooks
厨师多烧坏汤; 人多反倒误事 if too many are involved in sth, which will not be done properly
Too many cooks spoil the broth.厨师多烧坏汤。
I know they only meant to help, but it was a case of too many cooks,I'm afraid.我知道他们一心想帮忙,可惜人多反而坏了事。

I'm not much of a cook.我厨艺不佳。
Were you the cook?是你做的饭吗?
The cook had made noodles for me.厨师为我煮了面条。
The cook is in charge of the kitchen helper.这位厨师负责管理帮厨工。
The cook was an expert at making sauces.那位厨师是调制味汁的能手。
The cook chopped the vegetables in the kitchen.厨师在厨房里切菜。
The cook has made you a splendid birthday cake.厨师为你做了一个极好的生日蛋糕。
The cook keeps everybody out of kitchen while he is working.厨师干活时,不让任何人进入厨房。
The cook tastes everything to see if it is all right.厨师品尝每样东西看看它的味道好不好。
He's no mean cook.他可不是个一般的厨师。
She is the very worst cook I have ever encountered.她的确是我所遇到的最糟糕的厨师。
We dismissed the cook because her cooking was so poor.我们解雇了厨师,因为她的烹饪技术太差。
We have secured a first class cook.我们已经请到了一位第一流的厨师。
We discovered her a good cook.我们发现她是一个很好的厨师。

cook, cooker
cook和cooker意思不同, cook是“厨师”的意思,而cooker的意思是“炊具”。在美式英语中,相当于cooker的词是stove和range。例如:
His wife is a good cook.他妻子很会做饭。
I prefer gas cookers to electric ones.电气炊具和煤气炊具比起来,我更喜欢煤气炊具。

［词源］  ＜古英语coc＜中古英语cok＜拉丁语coquus(煮,烹调)