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postprandial

/pohst-pran-dee-uhl/US // poʊstˈpræn di əl //UK // (pəʊstˈprændɪəl) //

餐后,餐后的,饭后,食后

Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : after a meal, especially after dinner: postprandial oratory; a postprandial brandy.

Examples

  • The postprandial moment has never struck me as a time for joe.

  • Cabinet Councils of "tabbies," assembling over their postprandial Bohea, declared they would none of him.

  • Like the burden of our sins, the postprandial odor of them must be sometimes intolerable.

  • None of them impressed me with a very high idea of English postprandial oratory.

  • The father alone did nothing, but still rested on his couch, perhaps indulging in a postprandial nap.

  • The wit and gaiety, the range and the emphasis of their postprandial conversation can be imagined.