DINNER

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Traducere în limba română

dinner substantiv

1. masă; masă principală a zilei (prânz sau cină);

dinner is served masa e servită (formulă la mese mari cu mulţi invitaţi);

to ask to dinner a pofti la masă;

public dinner banchet;

dinner without grace relaţii de dragoste prenupţiale;

we had an early dinner am prânzit devreme;

to eat one’s dinner a lua masa (de prânz); a cina;

he has not eaten a good dinner nu s-a săturat, n-a mâncat pe săturate;

what are we going to have for dinner? ce avem la masă?

I made a good dinner of it am mâncat cu poftă;

I have not made much of a dinner am mâncat puţin (la prânz, la cină);

to serve (up) dinner a servi masa (prânzul, cina);

the dinner is on the table masa e servită;

dinner is waiting masa e gata;

(prov.) after dinner comes the reckoning (aprox.) cine vrea miezul, să spargă nuca;

after dinner, mustard prea târziu, la spartul târgului;

to eat one’s dinners a se pregăti pentru avocatură, a studia dreptul;

scratch dinner masă improvizată;

(amer.) testimonial dinner masă (dată) în cinstea cuiva.

2. dineu, masă oficială, masă de gală, banchet.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

My day was a busy one, and I had an early dinner at the Savage Club with Tarp Henry, to whom I gave some account of my adventures.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Never mind the ladies to-night; perhaps you will see them to-morrow: here is your dinner.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He toiled on all day, recollecting, at the last moment, that he was to have dinner at the Morses'.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Jo, with perfect faith in her own powers and a friendly desire to make up the quarrel, immediately put a note in the office, inviting Laurie to dinner.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It was about twelve at noon, and a servant brought in dinner.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Your father might have asked us to dinner, I think, if he had wanted to see us.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

After dinner, when we had all gathered round the fire in the study—Mrs. Harker having gone to bed—we discussed the attempts and discoveries of the day.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

In fact, we slept till three in the afternoon, or at least I did, for I awoke to find Maud cooking dinner.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The window at a little distance from which I know he is having his dinner, stands for him, and I eye that instead.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A meeting of the Guild had been held that evening at eight, and Mrs. Barclay had hurried over her dinner in order to be present at it.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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