Supper

(noun.) a light evening meal; served in early evening if dinner is at midday or served late in the evening at bedtime.

(noun.) a social gathering where a light evening meal is served; 'her suppers often included celebrities'.

整理:李奥娜

• For instance, if he took his supper after a hard day, to the Dead March in Saul, his food might be likely to sit heavy on him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Truth to tell, the supper had been waiting a most unreasonable time. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Therefore, betwixt your breakfast and your supper,--on the premises I expect to find you. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Was it mad with mommer for getting its supper so late? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
• At supper, we were hardly so gay. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• This being evidently the central point of the entertainment, Aunt Chloe began now to bustle about earnestly in the supper department. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• A council was held; lots were cast who should walk up to the master after supper that evening, and ask for more; and it fell to Oliver Twist. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• John dear, we must give this little fellow his supper, you know. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Will you come to supper, please, sir? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• He was to be told (said Monseigneur) that supper awaited him then and there, and that he was prayed to come to it. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• I suppose it would be a real treat to a camel to have a keg of nails for supper. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I see myself, as evening closes in, coming over the bridge at Rochester, footsore and tired, and eating bread that I had bought for supper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• It regarded a supper-room. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• George Lamb begged leave to differ in opinion; because he wanted his supper. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• In the midst of which they went to supper. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• Rawdon acquiesced in the justice of her opinion; and in truth he had remarked that after a few nights of his little suppers, &c. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• When we used to have the suppers? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Suppers are not bad if we have not dined; but restless nights naturally follow hearty suppers after full dinners. 本杰明·富兰克林. 富兰克林自传.
• But it does seem so nice to have little suppers and bouquets, and go to parties, and drive home, and read and rest, and not work. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• Scanty and insufficient suppers those, and innocent of meat, as of most other sauce to wretched bread. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• At the time of the ballroom's being built, suppers had not been in question; and a small card-room adjoining, was the only addition. 简·奥斯汀. 爱玛.
• Sartin, sartin, Mas'r George; you go 'long, and I'll get ye up a bit o' chicken, or some sich; ye won't have many more suppers wid yer poor old aunty. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• Her suppers on Saturday nights were very gay. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The beasts--however, it is simply absurd to suppose he did not know any more than to feed the beasts on oyster suppers. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Try it, and see if he doesn't find your society far more agreeable than Mrs. Scott's suppers. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.

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