| 单词 | lunch |
| 释义 | Related topics: Foodlunch1 /lʌntʃ/ ●●● S1 W2 noun [countable, uncountable] 1 DFa meal eaten in the middle of the day 午餐 What’s for lunch? 午饭吃什么？n I've just had lunch with John.at lunch I’m afraid he’s at lunch until two. 他去吃午饭了，恐怕得到两点钟才回来。over lunch A dozen senators met over lunch with the Chinese ambassador. 十几名参议员在午餐会上和中国大使会面。n GRAMMAR: Patterns with lunchfor lunch• You eat something for lunch: I had chicken for lunch. ✗Don’t say: I had chicken on lunch. | I had chicken at lunch.at lunch• You use at lunch to talk about something that happens while you are eating lunch: We can talk about it at lunch.• You also use at lunch to say that someone has gone somewhere else to eat lunch: I went to see her, but she was at lunch.2. there’s no (such thing as a) free lunch used to say that you cannot get anything without working for it or paying for it 天底下没有免费的午餐〔用于表示不付出就得不到任何东西〕3. out to lunch informalCRAZY behaving or talking in a strange or crazy way 举止[言谈]有点失常 COLLOCATIONSverbshave lunch 吃午餐Have you had lunch? 你吃过午饭了吗？eat lunch 吃午餐What time do you usually eat lunch? 你通常几点吃午餐？have something for lunch 午餐吃某物I usually have sandwiches for lunch. 我午饭通常吃三明治。take somebody (out) to lunch (=pay for someone else's lunch when you go to a restaurant) 请某人出去吃午餐nHe took her out for lunch at a local pub.go out for/to lunch (=have lunch at a restaurant) 出去吃午餐nI don't often go out to lunch, as it's expensive.come for/to lunch (=come to someone's house for lunch) 来吃午餐nCan you come to lunch tomorrow?break for lunch (=stop doing something in order to eat lunch) 休息一下去吃午餐nWhy don't we break for lunch about 1 o'clock?make lunch 做午餐nYou clear the table while I make lunch.ADJECTIVES/NOUN + luncha light lunch (=a small lunch) 简便午餐After a light lunch, he would take a nap each afternoon. 每天下午，他吃过简单的午饭后都会小睡一会儿。a packed lunch British English, a bag/sack lunch American English (=food such as sandwiches that you take to school etc) 盒装午餐，自备午餐Most of the children had brought packed lunches. 大多数孩子都带了盒装午餐。a business/working lunch (=a lunch during which you also do business) 商务/工作午餐nShe was having a business lunch with a customer.a school lunch (=a lunch provided by a school) 学校午餐nFree school lunches are provided for the poorest children.Sunday lunch British English (=a hot lunch eaten on Sunday) 星期天午餐nMum always cooks a chicken for Sunday lunch.lunch + NOUNa lunch break (=a time when you stop working to eat lunch) 午餐休息时间We took a half hour lunch break. 我们午餐时休息了半个钟头。the lunch hour (=the time when people stop working to eat lunch) 午餐时间I try to go out for a walk during my lunch hour. 我尽量在午餐时间出去走走。a lunch date (=when you meet someone for lunch) 午餐约会nI've got a lunch date.Examples from the Corpuslunch• At a lunch in his honour, friends and former rivals gathered to pay him tribute.• The muscle work comes after breakfast, then again after lunch and a nap.• See you after lunch.• After lunch he fared better returning a 76, taking only 35 shots on the inward nine.• They were each allowed a glass of wine at lunch, and from my experience, smoking was compulsory.• We had an early lunch and spent the afternoon shopping.• Everybody else in the village was presumably either still eating lunch or else dozing.• At work we are allowed one hour for lunch.• Shall we have lunch before we go out?• We always have roast beef for Sunday lunch.• The next week, we had a full house at the lunch.• The lunch, at which numbers will be limited, will be open to all members and will feature an after-lunch speaker.Related topics: Foodlunch2 verb [intransitive] formal DFto eat lunch 吃午饭，用午餐lunch with I will be lunching with a client. 我要和一位客户一起用午餐。lunch on I lunched on bread and olives. 我午饭吃了面包和橄榄。lunch at/in We lunched at Maxim’s. 我们在马克西姆餐厅吃了午餐。→ See Verb tableExamples from the Corpuslunch• You ask him to lunch at a posh restaurant.• We often lunched together after her weekly consultation.• He had lunched with the Wellands, hoping afterward to carry off May for a walk iii the Park.• Shelley promises to lunch with them once she has got her things from the car.lunch at/in• They ate lunch in a shady restaurant and then Leary went back to his flower-hung villa.• She returned from lunch at ten to two in a happier frame of mind.• Arrangements are under way for the hosting of a lunch at the 1992 Autumn meeting in Dublin.• The tour includes lunch at the Grand Hotel and guests take a carriage ride on Mackinac Island.• The following morning, those friends rang to offer us Christmas lunch at their place with her sister and brother-in-law.From Longman Business Dictionarylunchlunch /lʌntʃ/ noun [countable]1a meal eaten in the middle of the dayfacilities for conferences and private business lunches (=when business people go to lunch to discuss things or entertain customers)He has working lunches (=when you discuss business and eat) with his team to develop their approach.It is important that the office is manned during thelunch hour (=the time when people eat lunch).2there’s no such thing as a free lunch informal used to say that something may seem free, but that you have to pay for it in the end3three-martini lunch informal a lunch that is supposed to be a working lunch, but where people enjoy themselves too much to do any workOrigin lunch1 (1800-1900) luncheonlunch1 noun →n GRAMMAR1 →COLLOCATIONS1lunch2 verbLDOCE OnlineChinese middle a Corpus the eaten in meal of Business day the |
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