1. go to dinner with sb.:和……一起吃晚餐
e.g. If we go to dinner with your boss, you're not to talk shop.
要是我們和你老板一起去吃飯,你可不許談工作。
e.g. It's boring to go out to dinner with a cheapskate.
和小氣鬼一起出門吃飯真沒意思。
2. foot the bill:付賬
e.g. I was in a jam because I didn't have enough money to foot the bill.
我?guī)У腻X不夠付帳,處境很狼狽。
e.g. I suppose Jim will foot the bill, as always.
我想吉姆會像往常一樣付賬的。
3. the sort of:那種
e.g. That's the sort of painting I like: simple, suggestive and unpretentious.
我就是喜歡這種畫;樸素,發(fā)人深思,而且毫無矯揉造作之感。
e.g. He's not the sort of man who would go back on his word.
他不是那種會食言的人。
3. be suitable to do sth.:做某事恰當
e.g. Would now be a suitable to show the slides?
現(xiàn)在放幻燈片合宜嗎?
e.g. It is not suitable to make a joke at the moment.
現(xiàn)在不宜開玩笑。