So there was bigger meal. There was a girlfriend involved, sometimes invited over to our house as well for the meal, and part of the family, and cards back and forth.

VOA: special.2010.02.08

Or, if you just focused on the intrinsic character of the not-having the meal.

或者，如果你仅仅把重点放在不吃饭,的本质上。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

and you had planned to go on a Dutch pay but at the end of the meal, the friend offers to take the check.

你本来希望两人各自付账，但吃完饭后，你朋友便主动买单。

I will 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

I would become the meal. (SNICKERING) (LAUGHING) Hi, Bella.

VOA: standard.other

After all, not having the meal is just an absence of a certain experience.

毕竟，不吃饭是对某种经历的缺乏。

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

For the children at Saint Christine's, the mid-day meal they are served might be their only meal all day.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

Or maybe during the meal, you are feeling a stomachache

又或者在吃饭的时候，你觉得有点肚子疼。

I will 课堂 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

In the book a creature named Sam-I-Am tries to get another creature to eat an unusual meal, green eggs and ham.

VOA: special.2010.05.02

For example,I said this meal they have, it's called "the boss's dinner." We call it the Lord's Supper.

比如，我前面说他们聚餐，叫“老板请客“，我们现在称之为圣餐。

耶鲁公开课 - 新约课程节选

When you are eating at a restaurant, the server may tell you bon apptit, which means good appetite, or enjoy your meal.

VOA: special.2010.04.18

How many of you have seen the Taco Bell series of advertisements for the fourth meal?

你们多少人看过塔可钟,宣传第四餐的那个系列的广告

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

The goal is to have everything ready to serve a hot meal at 7 in the morning.

VOA: special.2009.01.28

The lamb will then be eaten as a family meal, and its blood will be smeared on the doorposts to mark the house so the angel of death knows to pass over that house -handy and the pun works in Hebrew, as well as English, In addition, each family is to eat unleavened bread.

然后这家人把羊吃掉，然后把羊血涂在门柱上，作为标记,所以当死亡天使经过的时候便可以看到,这里有一个在希伯来语和英语中都能讲得通双关语，除此之外，每一家都要吃没有发酵的面包。

耶鲁公开课 - 旧约导论课程节选

Mother did not know Bill was gone until she gathered the children for the midday meal.

VOA: special.2009.11.28

We always have the traditional Sunday meal whether it's beef or chicken or lamb.

我们经常有传统的星期日聚餐，不管是吃牛肉、鸡肉还是羊肉。

妈妈亲手做的味道 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

Then there is the reception after the ceremony, and often another meal the following morning.

VOA: special.2010.08.09

The student center here has something called late meal,

这儿的学生中心有个活动叫迟到的一餐，

有趣的吃东西协会 - SpeakingMax英语口语达人

The victims cannot understand a joke, or cannot cook a meal, or perform simple work.

VOA: special.2009.09.15

Well it has to do with our distance from food, our psychological and physical distance from food, and the fact that we don't appreciate it as much as we do because it's everywhere all the time and we've been trained to eat outside of the normal meal times.

我想这和我们与食物之间的距离有关,包括与食物之间的心理距离和身体上距离,事实上,我们没有给予食物足够的重视,因为食物随手可得,无处不在,而且我们都习惯在非用餐时间吃东西

耶鲁公开课 - 关于食物的心理学、生物学和政治学课程节选

As I ate my meal, my lessons in the language of the green Martians continued.

VOA: special.2010.07.17

You can imagine somebody who says, "Look, it would be better never to have had the taste at all " than to have the taste and then not be allowed to have the entire meal."

你可以想象会某人说，“尝一口然后被禁止吃完整顿饭,还不如从来就没尝过一口呢“

耶鲁公开课 - 死亡课程节选

The smells were from squids -- a favorite meal of the smooth dogfish shark.

VOA: special.2010.08.03

On their date, the couple might eat a meal together at a restaurant.

VOA: special.2009.09.06

All of the 24 Happy Meal choices have more than a third of a child's recommended daily calorie intake.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"They eat their largest meal of the day as lunch,not dinner. They have a big feast on Sundays.

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

That notion was reflected in the people congregated in the State Dining Room for the iftar meal.

VOA: standard.2009.09.02

"And when he shook my hand, inside was $400,and he said I want you to take the students out for a good meal."

VOA: standard.2010.02.26

In the video, Private Bergdahl is seen sitting on the floor in a nondescript room, wearing a traditional Afghan outfit and eating a meal.

VOA: standard.2009.07.20

Here,the travelers can stay a few nights and eat a good meal, while they take a brief respite from their long and dangerous journey north.

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

Levy and his co-founder, Minha Kauser, recently attended an Iftar meal in which Jews joined Muslims who were breaking their daily fast during the holy month,Ramadan.

VOA: standard.2009.10.19