breakfast, lunch, supper前冠词的使用问题

发布时间:2022-04-20T12:46:41 英语语法

breakfast, lunch, supper前冠词的使用问题

breakfast(早餐)、lunch(中餐)、supper(晚餐)等名词的冠词使用情况如下:

1. 在通常情况下不用冠词。如:

Breakfast is on from 8 to l0. 8点至10点之间开早饭。

What time do you have supper? 你们什么时候吃晚饭?

Breakfast is an extra at this hotel. 这家旅馆早餐要另外收费。

Lunch costs $5 per person, excluding drinks. 中餐每人5美元,不含饮料。

English breakfast typically includes bacon and eggs. 典型的英国早餐都包含腊肉和鸡蛋。

2. 如果与after, at, before, during, for, over, since, without等介词搭配,原则上也不用冠词。如:

The Scots have porridge for breakfast. 苏格兰人早餐吃麦片粥。

Bacon with eggs is good for breakfast. 早餐吃煎熏肉片和鸡蛋很好。

After breakfast the baby had egg all over his face. 吃了早餐后,这个婴儿满脸是蛋。

He has a walk before breakfast every morning. 他每天早上早餐前散步。

She scanned the newspaper over breakfast. 她吃着早饭把报纸大略看了一遍。

I haven’t eaten since breakfast. 我吃了早饭后到现在还什么都没吃呢。

3. 但如果特指的breakfast, lunch, supper,则可在其前加定冠词或其他限定词。如:

Thank you for the breakfast. 谢谢你的这顿早餐。

After that breakfast, I never saw her again. 吃了那顿早餐后,我就再没有看到过她。

4. 若其前带有描绘性修饰语,则其前通常要用不定冠词。如:

He takes a packed lunch to work. 他带包好的午饭上班。

We had a very late lunch. 我们很晚才吃午饭。

It’s a romantic candle-lit dinner. 那是一次浪漫的烛光晚餐。

After a quick breakfast, he hurried to the station. 匆匆忙忙吃完早餐,他就赶到车站去了。

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. 希望是美味的早点,但又是难咽的晚餐。