"meals" Chinese-English Dictionary
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 膳食 | meals / food | syn | |
| 伙食 | food / meals | syn | |
| 伙食费 伙食費 | food expenses / board expenses / meals (cost) | syn |
| Chinese | Pinyin | Translation | Actions |
|---|---|---|---|
| 吃住 | food and lodging / to stay (at some place) and eat meals (there) | ||
| 废寝忘食 廢寢忘食 | to neglect sleep and forget about food (idiom) / to skip one's sleep and meals / to be completely wrapped up in one's work | syn | |
| 顿 頓 | 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 | syn | |
| 包饭 包飯 | to get or supply meals for a monthly rate / to board / to provide board | syn | |
| 零嘴 | nibbles / snacks between meals | syn | |
| 搭伙 | to join up with sb / to become partner / to take meals regularly in cafeteria | syn | |
| 掌厨 掌廚 | to prepare meals / chef | ||
| 餐 | meal / to eat / classifier for meals | syn | |
| 三旬九食 | 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 錦衣玉食 | brocade garments, jade meals (idiom) / a life of luxury / extravagance | syn | |
| 发愤忘食 發憤忘食 | so dedicated as to forget one's meals (idiom) | syn | |
| 饱食终日无所用心 飽食終日無所用心 | eat three square meals a day and do no work / be sated with food and remain idle | ||
| 分餐 | to eat individual meals (rather than taking one's food from plates served to everyone at the table) | ||
| 忘餐 | to forget one's meals | ||
| 一日三餐 | to have three meals a day | ||
| 饱食终日，无所用心 飽食終日，無所用心 | to eat three square meals a day and do no work (idiom) / to be sated with food and remain idle | ||
| 分灶吃饭 分竈吃飯 | "meals prepared at separate stoves", slogan of the program of fiscal decentralization that began in the 1980s in the PRC | ||
| 废寝忘食 廢寢忘食 | (idiom) to skip one's sleep and meals / to be completely wrapped up in one's work | syn | |
| 断顿 斷頓 | to go without meals (due to poverty or scarcity) | ||
| 月子中心 | 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) |