dining hall
dining hall — 名詞
1. a large room found at schools, colleges, hospitals, and similar places, furnishe
餐廳
學校等機構內供多人用餐的房間
a large room found at schools, colleges, hospitals, and similar places, furnished with tables and chairs for shared mealtimes, with meals typically offered at scheduled times
The students gathered in the dining hall for the evening meal at six o'clock.
學生們六點鐘聚集在餐廳裡吃晚餐。
collocation: gather in [the] dining hall
Our school dining hall has long wooden tables that seat twenty people each.
我們學校的餐廳有長木桌，每張可坐二十個人。
Breakfast is served in the dining hall from seven until nine every morning.
每天早上七點到九點在餐廳供應早餐。
The college dining hall offers vegetarian options at every meal throughout the week.
大學餐廳每週每餐都有素食選項供師生選擇。
The dining hall was crowded at noon because every class had the same break.
中午餐廳擠滿了人，因為每個班級都在同一時間休息。
The hospital dining hall stays open until eight in the evening for night-shift workers.
醫院餐廳營業到晚上八點，方便夜班員工用餐。
- cafeteria
more common in American English; often implies self-service with a food counter
- canteen
British English term for dining space in a workplace or military base; usually smaller
- refectory
formal term, used especially in older British universities and monasteries
- mess hall
used mainly in military contexts
文法句型
dining hall + verb
in the dining hall
dining hall + serves/offers
用法筆記
This sense covers both the physical room and its function: you can refer to the space itself (e.g. 'a dining hall with high ceilings') or the meal-service operation running inside it (e.g. 'the dining hall serves breakfast from seven'). The same dining hall can be described either way — there is no separate sense for meal service. Attributive nouns or possessive adjectives typically identify the institution (school dining hall, college dining hall, hospital dining hall).