lite
adjective /laɪt/
/laɪt/
(informal)- (of food or drink
) containing fewer calories than other versions of the same type of food, and therefore less likely to make you fat (a way of spelling ‘light’)食物或饮料 低热量的,清淡的(light 的一种拼写方法) - lite ice cream
低热量冰淇淋
- lite ice cream
- (used after a noun
) (disapproving) used to say that a thing is similar to something else but lacks many of its serious or important qualities用于名词后 类似…的劣质品 - I would describe this movie as ‘Hitchcock lite’.
我把这部电影称为 “模仿希区柯克导演手法的平庸之作”。
- I would describe this movie as ‘Hitchcock lite’.
词源1950s: a deliberate respelling of light.