The dinner table is more than a place to sit down and enjoy food. It's a social place. Business deals are inked there. Strangers become lovers there. But what if you abandon the social function of a meal by eating alone? A New Yorker article talks about the rising number of people who eat alone or cook alone, and are enjoying it.
Do you eat alone? Have you been snubbed by waiters or waitresses at restaurants?
n. 功能,函数,职务,重大聚会
vi. 运行