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banquet

/bang-kwit/US // ˈbæŋ kwɪt //UK // (ˈbæŋkwɪt) //

宴席,酒席,宴请,宴会

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a lavish meal; feast.
    • : a ceremonious public dinner, especially one honoring a person, benefiting a charity, etc.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ban·quet·ed, ban·quet·ing.

    • : to entertain or regale with a banquet: They banqueted the visiting prime minister in grand style.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1

    ban·quet·ed, ban·quet·ing.

    • : to have or attend a banquet; feast: They banqueted on pheasant, wild boar, and three kinds of fish.

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Examples

  • Earlier this month, a wedding banquet in China’s southwestern Sichuan province featured 300 guests.

  • You can’t always eat what the animals eatIn the snow-covered landscape, a few stray berries may look like a banquet to a starving survivor.

  • A police department in Georgia, for example, once spent $227,000 on an armored personnel carrier, and a sheriff in New Mexico splashed out $4,600 for an awards banquet.

  • He was renowned as the organizer of the Big Ten party, an annual holiday bash he threw with nine other attorneys at Santia Hall, a banquet space in nearby Keego Harbor.

  • Increased state enforcement will also target banquet halls, nightclubs and other venues that host gatherings.

  • The head banquet man at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in New York City started serving the concoction as a menu staple in 1938.

  • The banquet was paid for with public funds, and taxpayers were understandably upset.

  • A table creaking under the weight of a Christmas banquet, a classic celebration of binge eating and drinking.

  • Another island tale purports that there was once a banquet arranged at the manor for Queen Victoria and Prince Albert.

  • A series of staircases winds under the lobby and opens onto a lavish banquet room, at once classical, futuristic, and whimsical.

  • My chief attended the banquet and I remained at home to hear the news when he returned.

  • After the formal proclamation was issued the function terminated with a banquet given to 200 insurgent notabilities.

  • Baltasar's profane banquet: his sentence is denounced by a handwriting on the wall, which Daniel reads and interprets.

  • During the banquet the room was filled with people of fashion, who went to see the grandees eat and drink.

  • The fourth scene, to the extreme right of the vault, represents the funeral banquet in honor of Vibia.