on one's plate
基本解释
- 有事情要处理
- 在某人的盘子上
英汉例句
- If there is someone to take, they will give even the last portion of rice on one's plate.
如果有人要，他们会给予他们盘子中的最后的米饭。
blog.sina.com.cn - He has to eat the food even if he doesn't feel like it, because it is considered bad manners in the west to leave one's food on the plate.
即便是不喜欢的菜品，他也得吃下去，因为在西方，把食物剩在盘子里是极不礼貌的行为。 - This concern downgrades the European diets as non-scientific because guests have to eat up what's on their plate, one plate after another to please the host.
这个问题使欧洲饮食降级成“不科学饮食”，因为客人往往为了主人的面子需要吃光自己盘子里的所有东西。
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