一天的正餐
核心畫面本身：當天份量最足、最當正事的那一頓。
dinner (main meal) · noun · A1
The main meal of the day, eaten in the evening or sometimes at midday.
晚餐 / 正餐
核心畫面
You can think of dinner as the day's big, proper meal — the one that counts as the main eating event, whether it falls at or in the evening. From that 'main meal' picture, it also stretches to the grander, gathered version: a formal evening meal where people come together.
可以想成「一天裡那頓最正式、最當一回事的飯」——它是當天主要的吃飯場合，落在中午或晚上都算。從這個「正餐」的畫面，再…更多收起
可以想成「一天裡那頓最正式、最當一回事的飯」——它是當天主要的吃飯場合，落在中午或晚上都算。從這個「正餐」的畫面，再放大成更隆重、聚在一起的版本：大家齊聚的正式晚宴。Two branches
正式晚宴
把「正餐」升級、放大：不只一頓飯，而是一場大家聚在一起、常為慶祝而辦的正式晚宴。
dinner (formal event) · noun · A1
A special evening meal where people gather, often to celebrate something.
晚宴 / 餐會
原始詞典資料8 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。
dinnernoun/ˈdɪnə/
- 1
The main meal of the day, often eaten in the evening.
- I had an early dinner because the breakfast in this hostel is superb.
- 1993, Mark Berry as "King Harkinian", a character in Animation Magic, Zelda: The Wand of Gamelon, Philips Interactive Media (publ.). I wonder what's for dinner.
- 2
An evening meal.
- I had some friends to dinner two nights ago.
- Do I have to change for dinner?
- 3
A midday meal (in a context in which the evening meal is called supper or tea).
- At twilight in the summer[…]the mice come out. They[…]eat the luncheon crumbs. Mr. Checkley, for instance, always brought his dinner in a paper parcel in his coat-tail pocket, and ate it when so disposed, sprinkling crumbs lavishly[…]on the floor.
- It was already late for school, so the boy took his time and only arrived in the village when Heidi came home for dinner. […] "Come to the table now and eat with us. Then you can go up with Heidi, and when you bring her back at night, you can get your supper here."
- 4
A meal given to an animal.
- Give the dog its dinner.
- 5
A formal meal for many people eaten for a special occasion.
- My family gathers twice a year, namely at Christmas and Thanksgiving dinners.
- When I gave a dinner there was generally a cover laid for him. I liked the man for his own sake, and even had he promised to turn out a celebrity it would have had no weight with me.
- 6
The food provided or consumed at any such meal.
dinnerverb/ˈdɪnə/
- 1
To eat a dinner; to dine.
- Once I was geared up, I joined him on the wide, flat seat of the sled which was loaded up with hot food for the jacks who were dinnering out since they worked a forty far from the camp.
- 2
To provide (someone) with a dinner; to dine.
- 1887, Caroline Emily Cameron, A Devout Lover, London: F.V. White & Co., Volume 1, Chapter 11, p. 181, She had taken her about to concerts and exhibitions—she had dinnered her at the Colonies, and suppered her at the New Club.
- ‘The Irish were awful anyway,’ Lady Wolseley said, ‘and their not attending the season should be greeted with relief. The dreary matrons dragging their dreary daughters about the place and dinnering up every possible partner for them. The truth is that no one wants to marry their daughters, no one at all.’
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。