dinner

n

• ①[附有修饰语时为[C]]正餐(一天当中主要的一餐;通常指晚餐,有时指午餐)
  • What's for dinner?晚餐吃什么?
  • Would you like to come to dinner with us?请你来跟我们一起吃饭好吗?
  • Shall we ask her to dinner?我们要不要请她吃饭?
  • It's time for dinner.= It's dinner time.是吃饭的时间啦。
  • Have you had dinner yet?吃过饭没有?
  • She never eats a big dinner.她从来不吃大餐。
  • at [before, after]dinner吃饭时[前、后]
  • a good [poor] dinner丰富[简陋]的餐食
  • an alumni dinner校友餐会
  • a bridal dinner嘉筳
  • a buffet dinner自助餐

• ② 晚宴,宴会(=dinner party)
  • We'll give [hold, throw] a dinner next week.我们要在下星期举办一次晚宴。
  • give a dinner in a person's honor [for a person]宴请某人,设筳款待某人
  • She attended a dinner at the Hilton Hotel last night.昨天晚上她参加了在希尔顿大饭店的一次晚宴。

• ③ 客饭(=table d'hote)
  • Four dinners at $10 a head.每客美金十元的客饭四份。

• ④ 【美】(温热即可食用的)包装好的食品