cookery

Compared meaning: cooking, the activity or skill of preparing food (noun).

比较义项：烹饪、做饭这一活动或技能（名词）。

• cooking

  The common, general word for the activity of preparing food; works as a gerund taking a direct object (cooking dinner) and is used freely in everyday speech, British and American alike.

  指烹饪这一活动最常用、最通用的说法；可作动名词直接接宾语（如cooking dinner），英式和美式英语中都可自由用于日常口语。

  My father enjoys cooking dinner for the whole family.

  我父亲喜欢给全家人做饭。

• cookery 本词

  A more formal, chiefly British noun for the skill or practice of cooking; rarely stands alone, mostly appearing in fixed phrases like 'cookery book/class/show'.

  较正式、偏英式英语的说法，指烹饪这门技艺或实践；很少单独使用，多出现在“cookery book/class/show”等固定搭配中。

  The cookery class taught us how to bake fresh bread.

  这门烹饪课教会了我们如何烤新鲜面包。

Cooking and cookery both mean the skill of preparing food. Cooking is the everyday word, common in British and American English, and can take an object, as in cooking dinner. Cookery is more formal and British, used in phrases like cookery book, class, or show.

cooking和cookery都指“烹饪”这一活动或技能，但语域和搭配不同：cooking是日常最通用的说法，可作动名词直接接宾语（如cooking dinner），英式和美式英语中都常用；cookery更偏英式、较正式，多出现在“cookery book/class/show”等固定搭配中，很少单独用来表示做饭这件事本身。