Heavy silverplate adds an opulent touch to a formal dinner party.
沉甸甸的镀银餐具给正式晚宴增加一种奢华感。
His idea of an elegant dinner was macaroni cheese with a kipper thrown in, and with pages of the Financial Times spread on the table as a cloth.
在他看来，一顿优雅的晚餐应该是芝士通心粉配上一条腌鱼，桌上还要铺上几页《金融时报》当桌布。
Twain recalls being invited to an official White House dinner and being warned by his wife, Olivia, who stayed at home, not to wear his winter galoshes.
吐温回忆有一次被邀请参加一个白宫的正式晚宴，呆在家中的妻子奥利维亚警告他不许穿他的冬季套鞋。
I know an Indian restaurant on the high street that offers a special dinner for groups.
我知道大街上有一家印度餐厅，为团体提供特别的晚餐。
You could mow a neighbor's lawn in exchange for her babysitting your child for an evening, so you and your spouse can enjoy a movie or a quiet dinner.
你可以为邻居修剪草坪，作为交换让她照顾你的孩子一个晚上，这样你和你的爱人就可以享受一场电影或一顿安静的晚餐了。
You can purchase an expensive bottle of wine at dinner, get a massage or go on a weekend getaway.
你可以在晚餐时买一瓶昂贵的好酒，做一次按摩或者去周末度假。
The problem with being a grownup is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with—work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.
长大后的问题是，有一大堆重要的事情要处理，从工作、按揭贷款到晚餐该做什么。
The day before yesterday, when Peter's family were having dinner, Father raised an interesting question, "Was there anything in our past that we feel ashamed of, guilty about, or regretted?"
前天，当彼得一家在吃饭的时候，父亲提出了一个有趣的问题：“过去有什么让我们感到羞耻、内疚或遗憾的吗？”
The problem with being a grown up is that there's an awful lot of serious stuff to deal with—work, mortgage payments, figuring out what to cook for dinner.
成年人的问题是，有一大堆重要的事情要处理——工作、按揭贷款、弄清楚晚餐该做什么。
One day only a month after I came to America, I had dinner with an American student, Bob.
来到美国仅一个月后的一天，我和一个美国学生鲍勃共进晚餐。
"It's an amazing place," AB said, "but our hotel room was filthy and we ate the same thing every day. Noodles for breakfast and rice for dinner."
“那真是一个神奇的地方。”AB说，“但是我们的酒店房间很脏，而且每天都吃同样的食物。早餐面条，晚餐米饭。”
Mrs. Medlock said I was to carry tha' breakfast an' tea an' dinner into th' room next to this.
梅德洛克太太让我把那些早餐、茶和晚餐搬到隔壁房间去。
For others, it was an unusual Christmas dinner they would never forget.
对其他人来说，这是一顿他们永生难忘的特别的圣诞晚餐。
My sister sometimes has only an apple for dinner because she wants to be thin.
我妹妹有时晚饭只吃一个苹果，因为她想变苗条。
She dreamed that she was having dinner with an alien in her dining room.
她梦见自己和一个外星人在她的餐厅里吃晚饭。
When you're invited to have dinner at home by an American friend, you should be on time or a little later.
当你被美国朋友邀请在家吃饭时，你应该准时或晚一点。
If you're faced with an awkward silence at a dinner party, the only thing that always gets everyone talking again is to give the host a compliment.
如果你在宴会上遇到了尴尬的沉默，唯一能让所有人再次说起话的办法就是说句恭维主人的话。
The family dinner on New Year's Eve is an important tradition for Chinese whether they were born in Singapore or moved there from China.
无论是出生在新加坡还是从中国移居到新加坡的中国人，除夕的年夜饭都是一项重要的传统活动。
A hundred and fifty years ago, a plainsman could kill an American bison, cut out only the tongue for his dinner.
一百五十年前，平地居民杀死野牛，只割下牛舌头做晚餐。
Unfortunately, that next time came at an intimate dinner in a small, private dining room, where I was both a guest and a stranger.
不幸的是，我的第二次却是一次在私家小客厅举行的亲友晚宴，那次我既是客人也是陌生人。
Last minute deals mean that a night can begin with an extraordinary dinner, then entertainment and dancing at the restaurant, or move on to nightclubs and casinos.
最划算的旅游套餐，意味着你的夜晚将从一场无以伦比的晚宴开始，紧随其后是酒店里的各式娱乐和跳舞，或者是换到夜店和赌场里的狂欢。
And despite her great fortune, she displayed a quirky austerity, pausing on the way home from an elegant dinner to grab leftovers at the kitchen, and hosting soirees at McDonald's.
尽管家财万贯，她却行为怪异，性格悭俭，会在典雅晚宴后返回时索取厨房的剩余饭菜，或是在麦当劳召开晚会。
She'd just been told that the rest of her group males) were golfing for their analyst going-away event and that instead, she could go to a spa and splurge on an expensive dinner.
有人告诉她组里的男同事为一位分析师开欢送会都出去打高尔夫球了，她可以去做水疗或者晚上大吃一顿。
I don't know Helen very well,but we go for an occasional dinner together./ but we occasionally have dinner together.
我和海伦不是很熟，不过我们偶尔一起出去吃饭。
Then, writes Redniss, after the ceremony, she sat down to an 11 course dinner with the King of Sweden.
然后，Rediss写道，颁奖典礼后，她跟国王一起坐下来吃完了11道菜的晚餐。
Later that day I went to Camp Bondsteel to thank the troops and share an early Thanksgiving dinner with them.
那天晚些时候，我去到邦德·斯蒂尔军营，向那里的驻军表达谢意并和他们提前共进感恩节晚餐。
That night, Tommy Caplans parents took Tommy, Mother, Roger, me, and a few others out to dinner at an Italian restaurant.
那天夜里，汤米。凯普兰的父母带上汤米、我、我母亲、罗杰和其他几个人到一家意大利餐馆吃饭。
"Oh, thanks for the war!" once Anthony said to his magnates friends in an after dinner talking, "the death of Lincoln, the victory of the Yankee, and the lost of my job in the south got me all good!"
“噢，感谢那场战争！”安东尼在一次和他的朋友们的饭后闲谈中说，“林肯死亡，北方佬的胜利，和我丧失南方的工作对我而言都是好处。”
I see this process up close when I interview the head of an auto parts factory over dinner.
当我在饭局上采访一位汽车配件公司的老总的时候我更确信了这点。
I see this process up close when I interview the head of an auto parts factory over dinner.
当我在饭局上采访一位汽车配件公司的老总的时候我更确信了这点。
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