dinner
1.英美“上等”人家的dinner通常在晚上，“中等”和“下等”人家的dinner通常在午刻。晚上吃dinner的人们所吃“午餐”叫lunch，他们或者不吃supper或者在dinner以后吃一顿简便的supper。
2.dinner也指正式的宴会。
3.dinner有时指“正餐那件事”，有时指“正餐吃的东西”，不论作哪个解，都有时是类名词，有时不是。例如：
- He had a hasty dinner with me.
- He had to wait for dinner.
- He ate a well-cooked dinner.
- He could not bring much dinner to me.
4.at dinner，to dinner，before dinner，after dinner等表达方式里都没有the。
5.have dinner，take dinner和eat dinner都作“进餐”解。
