Dinner

(noun.) the main meal of the day served in the evening or at midday; 'dinner will be at 8'; 'on Sundays they had a large dinner when they returned from church'.

(noun.) a party of people assembled to have dinner together; 'guests should never be late to a dinner party'.

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• Do you mean to join us at dinner? 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• She had provided a plentiful dinner for them; she wished she could know that they had been allowed to eat it. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Mr. Dick handed me down to dinner. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• My Lady Steyne, he said, once more will you have the goodness to go to the desk and write that card for your dinner on Friday? 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• As she pressed me to stay to dinner, I remained, and I believe we talked about nothing but him all day. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• He walked into the dining-room as we sat after dinner, and announced his intention in the thick voice of a half-drunken man. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• She saw nothing more of her uncle, nor of her aunt Norris, till they met at dinner. 简·奥斯汀. 曼斯菲尔德庄园.
• As he was returning the box to his waistcoat pocket, a loud bell rang for the servants' dinner; he knew what it was. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Hawley has been having him to dinner lately: there's a fund of talent in Bowyer. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
• It was, as Mrs. Archer smilingly said to Mrs. Welland, a great event for a young couple to give their first big dinner. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• Mr Merdle issued invitations for a Barnacle dinner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• Why, what I may think after dinner, returns Mr. Jobling, is one thing, my dear Guppy, and what I may think before dinner is another thing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• But this good old Mr. Woodhouse, I wish you had heard his gallant speeches to me at dinner. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• It was the dinner-hour. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• That young tutor is an interesting fellow: we had some awfully good talk after dinner about books and things, he threw out tentatively in the hansom. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• That stupendous character looked at him, in the course of his official looking at the dinners, in a manner that Mr Dorrit considered questionable. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It came to pass, therefore, that Physician's little dinners always presented people in their least conventional lights. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• These people and their like gave the pompous Russell Square merchant pompous dinners back again. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• There had been no handkerchiefs to work upon, for two or three days, and the dinners had been rather meagre. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• This and similar talk took place at the grand dinners all round. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• I know of nobody that is coming, I am sure, unless Charlotte Lucas should happen to call in--and I hope _my_ dinners are good enough for her. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• At all the Sunday dinners of the people, there seemed a strange presence. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• We had one of those celebrated dinners that only Mr. Childs could give, and I heard speeches from Charles Francis Adams and different people. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• He pays their dinners at Greenwich, and they invite the company. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Suppers are not bad if we have not dined; but restless nights naturally follow hearty suppers after full dinners. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• There aren't ten cooks in England to be trusted at impromptu dinners. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
• What good dinners you have--game every day, Malmsey-Madeira, and no end of fish from London. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• But the upshot is, she gets up glorious dinners, makes superb coffee; and you must judge her as warriors and statesmen are judged, _by her success_. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Her Bath habits made evening-parties perfectly natural to her, and Maple Grove had given her a taste for dinners. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• The Veneering dinners are excellent dinners--or new people wouldn't come--and all goes well. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.

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