The older child should be able to prepare a simple meal.

这个大点儿的孩子应该能做顿简单的饭菜。

《柯林斯英汉双解大词典》

We had a simple meal of soup and bread.

我们喝汤，吃面包，凑合了一顿。

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It was a simple meal by Eddie's standards.

在埃迪看来，那不过是一顿便饭。

《牛津词典》

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

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"Every meal in Japan looks like a piece of art. Food is so beautiful and so delicious and so simple."

VOA: standard.2010.02.23

He wants only to light a small fire, enough to cook a simple meal, nothing more, hardly an undertaking momentous enough to give rise to premonitions such as these.

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But these days, even when parents do have the time and the resources to buy healthy foods and make a simple meal at home, the reality is that kids are spending a third of their time at school, right?

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It was here that my mother learned the simple culinary art of making the beans and cornbread meal from her grandmother Charity, who ran a small boardinghouse that welcomed miners hoping to find work inside the damp hollows of the nearby mountains.

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