bombe
noun uk/bɒm/ us/bɑːm/
(SWEET)
[ C or U ] (also UK bombe glacée plural bombes glacées)（法式）炸弹甜品
a sweet dish consisting of ice cream and usually other layers such as cake, fruit, or chocolate, frozen into a round shape
The Coconut Bombe features the sun-kissed flavours of coconut encased in creamy white chocolate. 椰子味炸弹甜品凸显了包裹在奶油白巧克力中、太阳亲吻过的椰子味道。
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- The delicious bombe consists of a heart of strawberry sorbet, a middle layer of white chocolate parfait and an outer layer of meringue, topped with fresh strawberries.
- The cheesecake, chocolate bombe, apple pie and sorbet are all home-made.
- For dessert, I chose the lime and pineapple bombe.
- She sought out Italian gelateria on her travels, their glass cabinets filled with ice cream gateaux and frozen bombes.
- The bombe glacée is indispensable, it seems, to a good dinner.
(MACHINE)
[ C ]bombe机器（一种早期的计算机，在二战期间被英国人用来破解德国人的秘密信息代码）
a device that was a kind of early computer, used by the British during World War II to crack (= understand) codes used by the Germans to send secret information
The director of the Bletchley Park Trust believes that the Turing bombe is a true progenitor of the modern computer. 布莱切利园信托基金的负责人认为，图灵的bombe机器是现代计算机的真正前身。
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- By November 1941 there were fifteen bombes: at the end of the war there were several hundred.
- The bombe, designed by Alan Turing and Gordon Welchman, after the Polish cryptographic bomba by Marian Rejewski (1938), came into productive use in 1941.