| 单词 | dine |
| 释义 | dine (once / 40 pages) v To dine is to eat a meal, particularly the last meal of the day. When you invite friends over for dinner, you can ask them if they'd like to dine with you. You can dine at home, or dine at a fancy restaurant — in either case, you're eating dinner. If someone tells you they "dine out on" a funny story, they mean it's endlessly entertaining and buys them a lot of good will and amusement. The verb dine comes from the Old French disner, "to dine" or "to have a meal," from desjunare, "to break one's fast." WORD FAMILYdine: dined, diner, dines, dining, dinner, undine+/diner: diners/dining: dinings/dinner: dinners/undine: undines USAGE EXAMPLESAeroFarms supplies greens to the dining rooms at the Times, Goldman Sachs, and several other corporate accounts in New York. The New Yorker(Jan 01, 2017) Across the hall is the massive dining room, adorned too with holiday decorations. Washington Times(Jan 01, 2017) Which led Ken Charney to ask me if the Columbia Heights eatery, awarded 3½ stars in my fall dining guide, is suitable for a vegetarian. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) 1v have supper; eat dinner We often dine with friends in this restaurant Hyper eat eat a meal; take a meal 2v give dinner to; host for dinner I'm wining and dining my friends Hyper feed, give give food to |
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