I'm afraid I made a pig of myself at dinner.

恐怕晚饭我是狼吞虎咽了。

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What's more, although I was getting an adequate amount of calories, it was hard to convince myself that the chalky substance I just drank was dinner.

更难的是，虽然我正获取的是合适分量的卡路里，却很难让我自己相信这种我刚喝下去的白垩色物质就是我的正餐了。

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With little hesitation, I said yes, thinking to myself I'd come to dinner wanting to talk logistics and production rates, and left with a trip to Liberia on the agenda.

当时我毫不犹豫地就答应了，暗自庆幸自己原本只打算在晚餐中谈谈物流和产品价格后，没想到最后还能捞着去利比里亚的机会。

youdao

After dinner I sit behind the motel by myself, watching the sun drop behind the bluffs.

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Finding no one about, I let myself into one of them, ate a dinner of instant noodles and brandy, then settled onto a cot under five quilts.

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