a banquet or formal meal in honor of a person or an event.
为了某人或某事而举行的一次正式宴会或大宴会.
Formal affairs often have several courses of food with the appropriate cutlery for each dish.
正式宴会常会有几道菜须使用特定的刀叉餐具，
His casual style of dress was improper for a formal dinner.
他随便的衣着对正式宴会来说是不适当的。
Many Americans find silence uncomfortable during a buffet or a formal dinner.
不论在自助餐还是正式宴会上，如果常常冷场，美国人会觉得别扭。
No one was calling to find out how Jill felt, or whether she would like to attend a quiet dinner or take a drive or see a movie.
没有任何人打电话了解吉尔的情况，也没有人问她是否愿意参加非正式宴会，兜风或看电影。
A banquet is a large formal luncheon or dinner that is customarily followed by speeches and/or a ceremony.
宴会是大型，正式的午宴或晚宴，时常伴有讲话和（或一定仪式）。
he wore semiformal attire; a black-tie dinner.
他穿着半正式的服装；要求穿半正式服装的宴会。
The dinner is formal, if you don't wear the correct clothes you'll stick out like a sore thumb.
宴会是正式的, 如果你着装不当, 会显得很不得体。
The man had to wear formal evening dress to go to the company dinner.
男士要穿上正式的晚礼服去参加公司的宴会。
People who go to a formal Western dinner party for the first time may be surprised by table manners in Western culture.
人们每一次参加正规西式宴会,或许会惊诧于西方文化的餐桌礼仪.
Cocktails will be served promptly at six to be followed by dinner at eight.
6点钟准时举行鸡尾酒会，随之在8点钟举行正式的晚宴。
host a dinner/banquet/luncheon in honor of ...
为…举行宴会/宴请
The current fete form on international has banquet, party, buffet meeting, bender, tea party.
国际上通用的宴请形式有宴会、招待会、冷餐会、酒会、茶会等。
It's not quite the thing to wear an open-necked shirt to a formal evening dinner.
穿开领衫参加正式晚宴是很不恰当的。
At formal dinners， almost all of the dishes were vegetarian.
而正式的宴席中，大多数也是素菜。
The food prepared for either of these meals.
为正餐或宴会准备的食品.
He knew their customary revelry was going on.
他知道他们正在举行例行宴会。
Yes, sir, a typical Italian banquet.
是的，先生，一次正宗的意大利宴会。