- 词义辨析
breakfast, dinner, 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。
- 速记技巧
词源记忆法
有很多人相信,短暂地禁食有益于身体健康。因此,很多宗教以及地方习俗中都有“斋戒”的做法,即在某段时期减少或停止饮食。斋戒在英语中是fast。斋戒期结束后吃的第一餐就叫做breakfast,字面意思就是“终止斋戒”。由于这一餐通常是在早晨吃的,所以后来breakfast就变成了“早餐”的英语叫法。
- 知识拓展
语法解说
1.其前通常不用冠词,但若特指,则用定冠词;若受到形容词的修饰表示具有某种特点的“早餐”,则用不定冠词:Thank you for the breakfast.谢谢你的这顿早餐。/After a quick breakfast,he hurried to the station.匆匆忙忙吃完早餐,他就赶到车站去了。2.要表示“吃”早餐,英语通常用have,有时也可用take或eat(但较少见)。3.at breakfast与for breakfast不同:前者表示在吃早餐或在吃早餐的时候,后者表示为早餐而吃东西:I always drink tea at breakfast.我总是用早餐时饮茶。/I have an egg for breakfast.我早餐吃1只鸡蛋。(注:lunch,supper也具有类似单词用法)
重要短语
for breakfast当作早餐;对于早餐来说
have breakfast吃早餐,吃早饭
eat breakfast吃早饭
at breakfast早餐时,正在吃早饭
- 双语例句 更多例句
After breakfast the next morning they sat around for an hour discussing political affairs.
第二天早饭后,他们闲坐着聊了一个小时政治话题。
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He never bothered about his breakfast and he'll eat what is left over.
他从不为他的早餐费事,剩什么他就吃什么.
《简明英汉词典》
Show a leg! It's time you were all up and about — breakfast is in five minutes'time.
醒醒! 你们都该起来了——五分钟后用早餐.
《简明英汉词典》
Over breakfast at my motel, I fell into conversation with the owner of a hardware shop.
我在汽车旅店吃早饭时,和一位五金店的老板聊了起来。
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Our own Board are going to make a dog's breakfast out of it if we aren't careful.
如果我们不小心行事,我们的董事会就会乱成一团。
柯林斯词典例句库
The original kitchen was sandwiched between the breakfast room and the toilet.
厨房最初夹在早餐厅和厕所之间。
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- 相关词组
- bed and breakfast住宿加(次日)早餐;
- eat breakfast吃早餐
- at breakfast正在吃早饭;
- English breakfastn.英式早餐(熏肉、蛋、烤面包和果酱);
- have breakfast吃早饭;
- breakfast room早餐室;
- for breakfast当作早餐;对于早餐来说;
- breakfast tablen.早餐桌;
- breakfast bacon早餐咸肉;
- wedding breakfastn.喜宴;
- have a breakfast去吃点早餐吧
- power breakfastn.早餐会报;
- big breakfast丰盛的早餐;精选早餐套餐;
- breakfast tables早餐桌
- continental breakfastn.欧式早餐;
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