INVITEwhen you invite people for meals or to parties, at home or for business reasons 宴请;招待客户
simple recipes for easy entertaining
方便宴客的简单食谱
The hotel is used for corporate entertaining (=for business reasons).
这家酒店可举办商务宴请。
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entertaining• Frankerdiscussion about the nature and value of conventionalentertaining could improve matters even more.• Think about your future life-style together; will there be a lot of formal or informalentertaining?• Nigel also resented the expense of entertaining.• You will want people to relax over their meal, especially if you do a lot of entertaining.• When they lived together Paul had explained the merits of plasticentertaining.
VERBS | ADVERB | PHRASESVERBS➤be, sound有趣;聽起來有趣▸➤become變得有趣▸➤make sth使⋯有趣◇He tried to make his speech more entertaining.他試圖讓自己的演講更加有趣。➤find sth覺得⋯有趣◇The others seemed to find my discomfort hugely entertaining.我覺得很尷尬,其他人卻似乎覺得這非常有趣。ADVERB➤extremely, fairly, very, etc.極其/相當/非常有趣▸➤highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, marvellously/marvelously, vastly, wildly, wonderfully非常有意思;極其有趣;妙不可言◇It was highly entertaining for the people around them.這件事對他們周圍的人來說非常有趣。➤thoroughly十分有趣▸➤mildly, moderately (especially NAmE) 還算有趣PHRASES➤entertaining and informative具有娛樂性和知識性◇The book is an entertaining and informative read.這本書集知識性和趣味性於一體。