lunch
n. 午餐
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教材释义与例句
午餐
a meal eaten in the middle of the day
吃午餐；供给午餐
to eat lunch
释义与例句
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1.
A light meal usually eaten around midday, notably when not as main meal of the day.
午饭
午餐
晏昼
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2.
A break in play between the first and second sessions.
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3.
Any small meal, especially one eaten at a social gathering.
美国 可数 不可数After the funeral there was a lunch for those who didn't go to the cemetery.
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4.
A thin piece or hunk (of bread, meat, etc.)
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1.
To eat lunch.
吃午饭
食晏
不及物I like to lunch in Italian restaurants.
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2.
To treat to lunch.
及物
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词源
Recorded since 1580 in the sense “piece, hunk”. The word luncheon with the same meaning is presumably an extension on the pattern of puncheon (“cask”) and truncheon (“cudgel”). But earliest found forms of luncheon include lunshin and lunching, which are equivalent to lunch + -ing, with the suffix -ing possibly later modified to imitate a French origin. In contrast, the more common sense “light meal” is first attested for luncheon in 1652 and for lunch in 1829, so in this sense the latter is probably a shortening of the former. Lunch is possibly a derivative of lump (as hunch is from hump. See hunch for more), or represents an alteration of nuncheon, from Middle English nonechenche (“light midday meal”) (see nuncheon) and altered by northern English dialect lunch (“hunk of bread or cheese”) (1590), which perhaps is from lump or from Spanish lonja (“a slice”, literally “loin”).
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