1. Dinner was Japanese, with the family sitting on the floor in the traditional way.
    正餐是日式的，全家人按照传统方式坐在地板上用餐。

2. A great many former pupils will be attending a farewell dinner in his honour next Thursday.
    下星期四，他以前的许多学生都将参加为他举行的告别宴会。

3. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
    好像这一切还不足以使你急得掉泪，你的丈夫接着回来了，事先没打招呼就带来3个客人吃饭。

4. ´I have never borrowed any money from you,´ Tony said, ´so now you can pay for my dinner!´
    "我还从未向你借过钱，"托尼说道，"所以现在你可以替我付饭钱了！"

5. ´Young man,´ she answered, ´if you ate more and talked less, we would both enjoy our dinner!´
    "年轻人，"她回答说，"如果你多吃点，少说点，我们两个都会吃得好的！"

6. A great many former pupils will be attending a farewell dinner in his honour next Thursday.
    很多老同学都准备参加下星期四为他举行的告别宴会。

7. And even though I was hopeful throughout the dinner that my mother would somehow see Rich's kindness, his sense of humor and charm, I knew he had failed miserably in her eyes.
    虽然吃饭时, 我一直希望我妈妈能从某种角度看到里奇的善良、幽默感和魅力，但是我知道在她的眼里里奇是一败塗地了。

8. "You know what Charles did today?" Larry demanded at the dinner table, in a voice slightly amazed.
    "你知道查尔斯今天干了些什么?" 吃晚饭时，劳里以一种稍带惊奇的嗓音问道。

9. "If we can make someone's day brighter for $35 instead of $65, then they'll have enough money left over for candy and dinner," says the general manager of Roses Only's New York stores.
    "惟一玫瑰"纽约分店的总经理说，"如果我们能用35美元，而不是65美元，就使别人的一天充满光彩，那他们就可以省下足够的钱去买糖果和吃晚餐了。"

10. At dinner afterwards I was subjected to a hostile quizzing by a group of women in their thirties who claimed that my whole analysis ignored the most basic change of all.
    在随后的晚宴上，一群三十多岁的女士对我颇不友好地质问攻击了一番。她们声称我的整个分析忽视了家庭变革中最基本的变化。