dinner-party

基本解释

how cheap and false the hollow courtesies of an English dinner-party!
这些英国聚会是多么廉价和空洞的谦卑有礼啊！
The point is that those with a high personal need for structure would find the dinner-party-style restaurant highly uncomfortable.
关键是，对于那些高结构需求的个体而言，一家拥有派对风格的餐馆会让他们感到非常的不舒服。
Ten years ago, the most gracious hosts in China provided dinner-party guests with imported vintage reds, a rare treat as the country began to open up to Western-style extravagance.
十年前，中国多数慷慨的主人会给参加晚宴的宾客提供进口的红葡萄酒，在该国开始向西式铺张开放之时，这是难得的款待。

He would be quite famous in his line of work. Whether Magda was his wife or not, one evening when he was wise-lined and gray at the temples he'd smile gravely, at a fashionable dinner party, and remind her of his youthful passion.
他会在他的行业中变得相当有名，不管Magda是否,成为他的妻子，等他有了智慧的皱纹，两鬓斑白了,他会有天晚上在一次上流社会的晚宴上，庄重地微微一笑,对她提起自己少年时代的钟情。
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Then conflict with China would be more than just a book title or a dinner-party discussion.
ECONOMIST: America’s dose of Sinophobia
When the dinner-party episode was read in class, my sons found it hilarious, which is why they were taunting me.
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The Angry White Males joined Promise Keepers, and mellowed. (Even Rush Limbaugh is beginning to sound like Georgetown dinner-party material.) Outside Texas and Florida, most Family-Values Latinos forgave the Democrats their weakness for abortion and homosexuality.
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A dinner party is a social event where a small group of people are invited to have dinner and spend the evening at someone's house.