breakfast, lunch, supper前冠词的使用问题

breakfast, lunch, supper前冠词的使用问题

breakfast（早餐）、lunch（中餐）、supper（晚餐）等名词的冠词使用情况如下：

1. 在通常情况下不用冠词。如：

Breakfast is on from 8 to l0. 8点至10点之间开早饭。

What time do you have supper? 你们什么时候吃晚饭？

Breakfast is an extra at this hotel. 这家旅馆早餐要另外收费。

Lunch costs $5 per person, excluding drinks. 中餐每人5美元，不含饮料。

English breakfast typically includes bacon and eggs. 典型的英国早餐都包含腊肉和鸡蛋。

2. 如果与after, at, before, during, for, over, since, without等介词搭配，原则上也不用冠词。如：

The Scots have porridge for breakfast. 苏格兰人早餐吃麦片粥。

Bacon with eggs is good for breakfast. 早餐吃煎熏肉片和鸡蛋很好。

After breakfast the baby had egg all over his face. 吃了早餐后，这个婴儿满脸是蛋。

He has a walk before breakfast every morning. 他每天早上早餐前散步。

She scanned the newspaper over breakfast. 她吃着早饭把报纸大略看了一遍。

I haven’t eaten since breakfast. 我吃了早饭后到现在还什么都没吃呢。

3. 但如果特指的breakfast, lunch, supper，则可在其前加定冠词或其他限定词。如：

Thank you for the breakfast. 谢谢你的这顿早餐。

After that breakfast, I never saw her again. 吃了那顿早餐后，我就再没有看到过她。

4. 若其前带有描绘性修饰语，则其前通常要用不定冠词。如：

He takes a packed lunch to work. 他带包好的午饭上班。

We had a very late lunch. 我们很晚才吃午饭。

It’s a romantic candle-lit dinner. 那是一次浪漫的烛光晚餐。

After a quick breakfast, he hurried to the station. 匆匆忙忙吃完早餐，他就赶到车站去了。

Hope is a good breakfast, but a bad supper. 希望是美味的早点，但又是难咽的晚餐。