When he and his nobles sat down to dinner, crowds of people stood around to look at the great king.

当他和贵族们坐下来吃饭时，成群的人站在周围看着伟大的国王。

" What a bit of luck that I'm placed next to you, " said Laura, as we sat down to dinner.

“我能和你挨着真是荣幸，”劳拉在我们坐下吃饭的时候说。

We're just about to sit down to dinner.

我们正要坐下来吃晚饭。

It began the moment we sat down to dinner.

我们坐下来吃饭的那一刻就开始了。

We were just sitting down to dinner.

我们正要吃晚饭呢。

Okay, everybody, dinner. Let's all sit down to dinner together.

吃饭了 全都一起坐下吧。

Des Grassins came to take his client's orders just as the family sat down to dinner.

正当一家人坐下来吃晚饭时，Des Grassins 过来接客户的订单。

And with that out of the oven it was time to sit down to dinner with Muriel's husband Richard and her son David.

等待从烤箱拿出来后，是时候坐下来与茉莉的丈夫还有她的儿子一同享用这顿晚餐了。

For example, if you sit down to dinner, you don't eat with your hands, at least in American culture, usually.

例如，如果你坐下来吃晚饭， 通常不会用手吃饭，至少在美国文化中是这样。

I became imbued with the notion on that first occasion before we sat down to dinner, but I cannot define by what means.

在我们坐下来吃饭之前，我第一次被这个概念迷住了，但是我不能用什么方法来定义。

This nice rat family, papa, mama, brother, and sister are sitting down to dinner at a long table passing blocks of cheese back-and-forth.

这个可爱的老鼠一家，爸爸、妈妈、兄弟和姐妹坐在一张长桌旁吃晚饭，来来回回地传递着奶酪块。

That evening, just as he was sitting down to dinner, his servant came in to announce: " His Eminence would like to speak to you" .

那天晚上，就在他坐下来吃晚饭时，他的仆人进来宣布：“法座想和您说话”。

In due course this party of five men sat down to dinner with the usual club manners of ladyless dinner-tables, easy and formal at the same time.

在适当的时候，这五个男人坐下来吃晚饭，按照通常的俱乐部礼仪，在没有女士的餐桌上，既轻松又正式。

The next thing he realized was that the daylight was almost gone, for it had been nearly three o'clock when they sat down to dinner and the winter days were short.

其次明白过来的是天几乎黑了，因为他们坐下来吃午饭时已经快三点了，而且冬天的白昼短。

That noon he sat down to dinner with us, and received a heaped-up plate from my hands, as if he intended to make amends for previous fasting.

那天中午他坐下来和我们一块吃饭，而且从我手里接过一个堆得满满的盘子，好像他打算补偿先前的绝食似的。

The expression to sit down to dinner is one that we usually use when we are at home and we are going to eat, in this case, dinner.

坐下吃晚饭的表达方式是我们在家时通常使用的一种表达方式， 我们要吃晚饭， 在这种情况下是晚餐。

When I sat down to dinner I looked for an opportunity to slip in casually the information that I had by accident run across the Driffields; but news travelled fast in Blackstable.

那天中午我坐下吃饭的时候，一心想找个机会，有意无意地把自己偶然碰见德里菲尔德夫妇的事说出来，但是在黑马厩镇上，消息传得很快。

The old Inspector was incapable of it; and, were he to continue in office to the end of time, would be just as good as he was then, and sit down to dinner with just as good an appetite.

老督察无能为力。而且，如果他能继续执政到最后，他会像那时一样好， 坐下来吃饭时胃口也一样好。

There's a - there have been instances, also, where a family will be sitting down to dinner, the food is on the table, the bear comes through either the window or the door, grabs something off the table and leaves.

也有这样的情况，一家人坐下来吃晚饭，食物放在桌子上， 熊从窗户或门进来，抓起桌子上的东西然后离开。