"Meals" • Chinese-English Dictionary

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膳食 shàn shí meals / food
伙食 huǒ shí food / meals
伙食费 huǒ shí fèi food expenses / board expenses / meals (cost)
吃住 chī zhù food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there)
废寝忘食 fèi qǐn wàng shí to neglect sleep and forget about food (idiom) / to skip one's sleep and meals / to be completely wrapped up in one's work
包饭 bāo fàn to get or supply meals for a monthly rate / to board / to provide board
零嘴 líng zuǐ nibbles / snacks between meals
搭伙 dā huǒ to join up with sb / to become partner / to take meals regularly in cafeteria
掌厨 zhǎng chú to prepare meals / chef
顿 dùn to stop / to pause / to arrange / to lay out / to kowtow / to stamp (one's foot) / at once / classifier for meals, beatings, scoldings etc: time, bout, spell, meal
餐 cān meal / to eat / classifier for meals
三旬九食 sān xún jiǔ shí lit. to have only nine meals in thirty days (idiom) / fig. (of a family) on the brink of starvation / in dire straits
锦衣玉食 jǐn yī yù shí brocade garments, jade meals (idiom) / a life of luxury / extravagance
发愤忘食 fā fèn wàng shí so dedicated as to forget one's meals (idiom)
饱食终日无所用心 bǎo shí zhōng rì wú suǒ yòng xīn eat three square meals a day and do no work / be sated with food and remain idle
分餐 fēn cān to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table)
忘餐 wàng cān to forget one's meals
一日三餐 yī rì sān cān to have three meals a day
饱食终日，无所用心 bǎo shí zhōng rì , wú suǒ yòng xīn to eat three square meals a day and do no work (idiom) / to be sated with food and remain idle
废寝忘食 fèi qǐn - wàng shí (idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals / to be completely wrapped up in one's work
断顿 duàn dùn to go without meals (due to poverty or scarcity)
月子中心 yuè zi zhōng xīn postpartum care center (a facility providing services such as professional care and nutritionally balanced meals for mothers during the traditional month of rest after giving birth)
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