豐盛得誇張的一餐
把注意力從場合移到桌上的菜：宴會之所以叫宴會，很大一部分是因為菜多到驚人，於是這個字也能單獨拿來形容那樣的一桌。
large impressive meal · noun · B2
a large and impressive meal.
盛宴
核心畫面
Picture a long table, or a hall full of round ones, laid for a hundred people: white cloths, a printed menu, courses carried out in order, someone standing up to make a speech between them. The meal is not just food — it marks the occasion, a wedding, a prize, a visiting head of state. Two things sit inside that picture, the grand event and the enormous spread of food on it, and the word can lean on either one.
可以想成一張長桌，或是一整廳的圓桌，擺好了要坐上百人：桌巾雪白、印好的菜單、一道一道按順序上菜，中間還有人站起來致詞…更多收起
可以想成一張長桌，或是一整廳的圓桌，擺好了要坐上百人：桌巾雪白、印好的菜單、一道一道按順序上菜，中間還有人站起來致詞。這一餐不只是吃飯，它是在標記一個場合——一場婚禮、一次頒獎、一位來訪的元首。這個畫面裡同時裝著兩樣東西：那個隆重的場合，和桌上那一大片豐盛的菜。這個字往哪一邊靠都可以。From the picture
Also in this word
formal banquet · noun · B1
A large formal meal for many people, held to mark a special occasion.
宴會
原始詞典資料6 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
banquetnoun/ˈbæŋkwɪt/
- 1
A large celebratory meal; a feast.
- True, worthy Banquo; he is full so valiant, And in his commendations I am fed; / It is a banquet to me.
- And Esther answered, If it seem good unto the king, let the king and Haman come this day unto the banquet that I have prepared for him.
- 2
A ceremonial dinner party for many people.
- 3
archaicA dessert; a course of sweetmeats.
- Wee'll dine in the great roome, but let the muſick / And banquet be prepar'd here.
- At Inverkeithing the teetotalers objected to this profligate expenditure, so the Provost and magistrates manfully paid for their “cookies” out of their own pockets. At Dunse, instead of a cake and wine banquet, there was “a fruit conversazione,” whatever that may be.
banquetverb/ˈbæŋkwɪt/
- 1
To participate in a banquet; to feast.
- I am resolved; 'tis but a three years' fast: / The mind shall banquet, though the body pine: / Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits / Make rich the ribs, but bankrupt quite the wits.
- He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was love.
- 2
obsoleteTo have dessert after a feast.
- 1580, George Cavendish, quoted by John Stow (ed.), The Annales of England, Faithfully collected out of the most autenticall Authors, Records, and other Monuments of Antiquitie, 1600 edition, “Henry the eight.,” p. 907, Then was the banquetting chamber in the tilt yard at Greenewich, to the which place these strangers were conducted by the noblest personages in the court, where they did both sup and banquet.
- 3
To treat with a banquet or sumptuous entertainment of food; to feast.
- Not possible; for who shall bear your part / And be in Padua here Vincentio's son; / Keep house and ply his book, welcome his friends, / Visit his countrymen, and banquet them?
- 1800, Frederick Schiller, The Piccolomini, or the First Part of Wallenstein, translated by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, London: Longman & Rees, Act I, scene i, p. 2, Just in time to banquet The illustrious company assembled there.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。