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吃饭 (吃飯)
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Comprehensive Chinese-English Dictionary

吃饭 [chīfàn]
  1. 1. eat; have a meal
    吃了饭再走吧!
    Don't go. Stay for dinner.
    吃过饭了吗?
    ("Have you eaten?") Hello!
  2. 2. keep alive; make a living
    靠打猎吃饭
    make a living by hunting

Contemporary Standard Chinese Dictionary

吃饭 [chīfàn]
  1. 1. 进食。
  2. 2. 借指维持生计。

Examples

看你吃饭的样子,就像几天没吃饭了,简直是个饿鬼!
From your way of eating, I guess you must have been starving for days, you glutton!
他不吃饭不喝酒。
He won't drink unless he's eating. or He only drinks at meals.
我们都饿坏了,得尽先解决吃饭问题。
We are starving—see to our meals first.
俗话说:“看菜吃饭,量体裁衣”。我们无论做什么事都要看情形办理。
There is a proverb: "Fit the appetite to the dishes and the dress to the figure". Whatever we do must be done according to actual circumstances.
别空口吃饭不吃菜呀。
Don't only eat rice. Help yourself to what you like.
吃饭吃呛了
choke over one's food
他回家吃饭去了。
He went home to eat.
吃饭要洗手。
Wash your hands before meals.
他要请我吃饭,我推却了。
I declined his invitation to dinner.

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