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
- : 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.
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