- 1nB1/ˈlʌntʃən/午宴；午餐會
正式a formal meal in the middle of the day, often for many people in a hotel or other public place.
示範例句 · Example
Over two hundred people attended the Women in Journalism luncheon last Tuesday.
逐字超過兩百個人參加了上星期二的女性新聞從業人員午宴。
「luncheon」是比較正式的「中午那一餐／中午的聚會用餐」，中文常說午宴或午餐會。lunch 用在平常吃便當、買三明治；luncheon 多半出現在邀請卡、頒獎、募款或飯店場合。核心畫面可以想成「正式一點的中午聚餐」——字裡像有 lunch，但多了一層場合比較正式的感覺。它跟 dinner、banquet 並排：dinner 常指晚上正式餐會；banquet 更盛大；luncheon 鎖定中午時段。
常見搭配
attend a luncheon
參加午宴／午餐會
to go to a formal midday meal or gathering
Many parents attended the school luncheon for volunteers.
annual luncheon
年度午宴／年度午餐會
a formal midday meal held once every year
The club's annual luncheon raises money for the library.
luncheon meeting
午餐會議
a meeting held over a formal midday meal
Dad has a short luncheon meeting with the parent group.
charity / awards luncheon
慈善／頒獎午宴
a formal midday meal for giving awards or helping a cause
Zoe spoke at the awards luncheon about reading every day.
luncheon table / room
午宴桌／午宴廳
the table or room prepared for a formal midday meal
Flowers stood on every luncheon table in the white room.
luncheon meat
午餐肉（罐頭肉）
a kind of cooked meat sold in a can
Grandma fried luncheon meat and eggs for a quick meal.
意思相近
lunchmidday meal
core核心畫面
One way to picture it: a hotel ballroom at noon — round tables, name cards, a speaker at the front. It is still lunch, but with an occasion attached: people were invited, there is a reason for the meal, and someone will probably stand up and talk.
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以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
luncheonnoun/ˈlʌn.tʃən/
- 1
A formal meal served in the middle of the day.
- Most people thought the food at the luncheon was mediocre.
- Now that she had rested and had fed from the luncheon tray Mrs. Broome had just removed, she had reverted to her normal gaiety. She looked cool in a grey tailored cotton dress with a terracotta scarf and shoes and her hair a black silk helmet.
- 2
A large, cheap, processed sausage served in thin slices.
- Ian bought the luncheon since it was on special.
- Filled Roll (x2) 1x luncheon, tomato, lettuce, and mayonnaise / 1x cheese and onion
- 3
datedAny midday meal; lunch.
- "Have you had luncheon?"
- 4
obsoleteA lump of food.
- 5
obsoleteA portion of food taken at any time except at a regular meal; an informal or light repast.
- At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
luncheonverb/ˈlʌn.tʃən/
- 1
datedTo eat luncheon.
- In the meantime, while ladies are luncheoning on chicken pie, or coursing in whirling britskas, performing all the singular ceremonies of a London morning in the heart of the season[…]
- 2
rareTo serve luncheon to.
- Towns welcomed us in our hundreds; M.P.’s luncheoned us, manufacturers turned out their warehouses, decorated them and feasted us; private families tea’d us on their lawns, but we were so true to our art that we always returned to—“papers!”
- This gentleman was presented by Colonel C. E. S. Wood, and was entertained here—wined, dined, tead, breakfasted, coffeed and luncheoned—and we bought his pictures.
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