| 释义 |
ˈlunch-time
[f. lunch n.2 + time n.]
The time at which lunch is eaten. Also attrib.
1859Geo. Eliot Let. 10 Oct. (1954) III. 180 He can't take us wrongly any day either at 1 o'clock, (lunch-time) or at half past 5 (dinner). 1866G. M. Hopkins Lett. to R. Bridges (1955) 5 He..left me at lunch-time. 1890‘Rolf Boldrewood’ Col. Reformer (1891) 276 It was on the right side of lunch-time. 1909H. G. Wells Ann Veronica xiv. 290 Capes came into the laboratory at lunch-time. 1929Radio Times 8 Nov. 389/2 The lunch-time programme arranged by Mr. Christopher Stone. 1957Manvell & Huntley Technique Film Music 235 Kisenga, an African musician..is seen playing this work in a reconstruction of the war-time National Gallery lunch-time concerts. 1963Times 22 May 9/5 We'll be at the coast by lunchtime and the children can't wait for a swim and neither can I. 1968J. Bingham I love, I Kill xv. 222 Have me thrown out, boyo. If you hurry up, it'll make the lunchtime editions. 1971D. Crystal Ling. i. 11 There is at least one teachers' common-room..where problems of etymology..provide the normal, lunch-time gossip. |