- 词义辨析
dinner, breakfast, lunch, meal, supper, tea
这组词均为餐名,一般不加冠词。它们的区别是:
dinner指正餐,多在晚上吃,也可指宴会; breakfast指早餐; lunch指午餐; meal指任何一餐; supper指晚餐; tea在英国,指下午茶。例如:
He asked me to dinner tonight.他邀请我今天晚上吃饭。
The dinner we had was excellent.我们吃的晚餐很丰盛。
I hope you will honour us with your presence at the dinner.我希望您能光临此次晚宴。
I have breakfast at seven.我在7点吃早餐。
We have lunch at noon.我们在中午吃午饭。
He had a light meal at home.他在家吃了顿便餐。
I have supper at six.我6点吃晚饭。
They are having tea in the garden.他们正在园子里喝下午茶。
dinner, banquet
这两个词共同的意思是“宴会”。它们的区别是:
dinner的规模可大可小,可以是正式举行的宴会,也可以是便宴小酌; 可以是社交性的,也可以是家人团聚。banquet指正式招待某人或庆祝某事件而举行的盛大宴会,饭前多有人致词,场面豪华,多为美酒珍肴。例如:
A victory banquet was served in the dinning room.餐厅里举行庆祝胜利的宴会。
下面各组中两个句子意思相同:
Have you had dinner yet?(BrE)
Have you eaten dinner yet?(AmE)
你吃晚饭了吗?
What time do you have dinner?(BrE)
What time do you eat dinner?(AmE)
你们什么时候吃晚饭?
- 速记技巧
词根词缀法
来自dine,用餐。词义由早餐到中餐,现在指正餐,晚餐。dinner(正餐、主餐)来自法语词diner,意思是“to dine(吃饭)”。起源于拉丁语的一个俗语disjejunare;dis即“break(打破)”;jejunare,“fast(斋戒)”;意即“打破斋戒”、“开斋”、“吃饭”,这一点同breakfast意义相同。
谐音记忆法
分析:“订了”的谐音;
记忆方法:我们订了一桌宴会。
- 近义词
- 反义词
- 知识拓展
单词解说
dinner基本意思是“正餐”,指一日间的主餐,有时在中午进餐,有时在晚间进餐。dinner引申可作“宴会”解,通常指大型宴会,也可指“小型家宴”,即请几个朋友到家中聚餐,之后搞些活动,共度夜晚时光。
作为表示餐名的名词,dinner可用作可数名词,也可用作不可数名词。其前通常不加冠词,若有定语修饰时可加不定冠词,特指某次正餐时还可加定冠词(当然也可省略)。作“宴会”解时是可数名词,其前可加冠词。dinner之前有after,at,before,during,for等介词时,通常不加冠词。
同根单词
inner adj.内部的;内心的
- 双语例句 更多例句
See if you can find Karlov and tell him we are ready for dinner.
去看看能不能找到卡洛夫,告诉他要吃晚饭了。
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He had had an excellent dinner at a rather good local hotel
他已在当地一个相当不错的饭店里享用了一顿可口的晚餐。
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Ben had planned a steak dinner for himself after seeing Jackie off on her plane.
本已经计划好把杰姬送上飞机后自己吃一顿牛排大餐。
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She conditioned her acceptance of the gift on his coming to dinner next evening.
她以他第二天来吃晚饭作为接受礼物的条件.
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- 相关词组
- dinner dress晚宴服; 简便女晚礼服;
- dinner servicesn.成套的餐具( dinner service的名词复数 );
- candlelight dinner烛光晚餐;
- book dinner订餐;
- farewell dinner party年年散伙饭;散伙饭
- dinner partiesn.宴会( dinner party的名词复数 );
- dinner partyn.宴会;
- sumptuous dinner盛筵;盛馔;盛宴;
- give a dinner of welcome洗尘;
- draw a cake and call it a dinner画饼充饥
- year-end dinner partyn.忘年餐会;
- dinner servicen.成套的餐具;
- Dinner fork餐叉;
- dinner tablesn.餐桌( dinner table的名词复数 );
- shore dinner以海味为主要菜肴的一顿饭
- attend a dinner with singsong girls花天酒地
- testimonial dinner〈美〉感谢某人功绩或成就的宴会
- dinner tablen.餐桌;
- give a dinner for a visitor from afar接风洗尘;接风
- give a dinner party请客;
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