tea break

英 [ˈtiː breɪk]

美 [ˈtiː breɪk]

n.  喝茶休息时间; 工间休息时间

牛津词典

noun

• 喝茶休息时间；工间休息时间
  a short period of time when people stop working and drink tea, coffee, etc.

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 茶歇时间(工作中间的短暂休息)
  If you have atea break, you stop working and have a cup of tea or coffee.
  1. He had a tea-break about twelve.
     十二点左右，他放下工作休息了一下。

in AM, use 美国英语用 coffee break

英英释义

noun

• a snack taken during a break in the work day
  1. a ten-minute coffee break
  2. the British have tea breaks
  Synonym:coffee break

双语例句

• Do you prefer a coffee or a tea break?
  你比较喜欢喝咖啡时间还是喝茶时间？
• The protest was peaceful, so much so that the demonstrators took a morning tea break.
  整个抗议过程是和平的，甚至达到了抗议者还有上午茶休息时间的程度。
• And another Shanghai district, Hongkou, last month started offering free afternoon tea as a lure to get office workers to talk to one another, and break down that salaryman isolation.
  而另一个区虹口区，从上月开始提供免费下午茶，以此促进办公室职员间的交流、打破职场隔阂。
• In addition, we offer a one-year guarantee to replace the tea cups if any break.
  此外，我们保证在一年以内退换所有破碎茶具。
• "Shall we have some tea?" he asked, anxious to break the tension which was apparent on everyone's face.
  “我们喝点茶，好吗？”他问道急于驱散每个人脸上流露出来的紧张情绪。
• We have a morning and an afternoon tea break every day when we stop work for about ten minutes and have a drink.
  我们每天上午和下午各有一次喝茶休息时间，让我们停工10分钟左右，喝一点饮料。
• Our boss is a real slave driver – we don't even get a tea break!
  我们的老板真是非常残酷，甚至不给我们喝茶休息的时间。
• Later at the same location, while having a morning tea break, Mary wearing a massive sun visor was told her head covering was inappropriate.
  双色球预测后来在同一地点，而有一上午茶歇，玛丽身穿大遮阳板覆盖被告知她的头是不恰当的。
• Several manufacturing plants have encountered serious troubles in England because of the famed British tea break.
  人们都知道英国人素有吃茶点的休息时间，这给几个生产厂家带来了很大的麻烦。
• Give up our tea break? No way!
  让我们放弃工间休息时间？没门儿！