中式英語之鑑:該吃晚飯了
74. 你該吃晚飯了。
[誤] It's time to eat your dinner.
[正] It's time to have your dinner.
注：不是所有的“吃”字都能翻譯爲英語 eat 的，英語中有許多固定搭配，如：take one's medicines（吃藥）； lead an idle life（吃閒飯）；be very popular（吃香）；I had some meat for lunch（午餐我吃了些肉）等。eat：“進餐”，在英國不常用，但在美國卻常見。
例如:
Eat your dinner.
He ate his breakfast quickly, then ran up to his room again.
