中午吃饭 八菜一汤
“For lunch, he needs eight dishes and a soup.”
THE DIALOGUE REEL
“needs to rinse his mouth with shark-fin soup every morning.”
中午 吃饭 八菜一汤
“For lunch, he needs eight dishes and a soup.”
晚饭可以清淡点
“Dinner can be a bit lighter—”
“If we get rich, we will feast like royalty every single day!”
Formulas like 'four dishes and one soup' or 'eight dishes and one soup' originate from formal state banquets and have become standard cultural idioms for measuring a lavish feast.
LEARNING CHUNKS & PARTICLES
eight dishes and one soup (a traditional benchmark for an extravagant banquet)
Use this phrase idiomatically to describe a lavish, abundant feast or royal treatment.
VOCABULARY & EXPRESSIONS
Parallel Spoken Cinema Scenes (语义近邻切片)
“Four dishes, one soup, and one dessert. Can you finish your sentence in one breath?”
“There is a soup and two dishes coming. Rest for a bit, Granny Yu.”
“Even eight meals of just porridge won't fill him!”
“Let's go. I'm not cooking lunch. We're eating out.”
“Your dishes are all served. -Okay. Thank you. -Enjoy. Thank you.”
“Sit down and eat. Have some meat.”