dinner table
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++ˈdinner ˌtable noun the dinner table a) DFMEALan occasion when people are eating dinner together 用餐场合 It wasn’t a very suitable conversation for the dinner table. 这种谈话不太适合在用餐时进行。 b) DHFthe table at which people eat dinner 餐桌 → dining table
Examples from the Corpus
dinner table• Fortunately, while traditional values have hardly changed at the dinner table, cooker design has.• The credit for the laughter at the dinner table could be said to be shared between Henry and Frank Conway.• And more is at stake than manners at the dinner table.• Norm was more pleasant at the dinner table when the boys were not there.• Apples crop up everywhere from the dinner table to our most ancient myths and legends.• Before the week is over, she will make several more shopping trips to put food on the dinner table.• They exchanged glances of iron and fire over the dinner table and across the seemingly still spaces of the living room.• The dinner table had become our favorite battleground.ˈdinner ˌtable nounChineseSyllable
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dinner table
ˈdinner ˌtable
noun
the dinner table
a. an occasion when people are eating dinner together:
It wasn’t a very suitable conversation for the dinner table.
b. the table at which people eat dinner
⇨ dining table
ˈdinner ˌtable
nounthe dinner table
a. an occasion when people are eating dinner together:
b. the table at which people eat dinner
⇨ dining table
often