社交场合：指人们聚集在一起进行社交活动的场合，如晚宴、舞会、婚礼等。
a vaguely specified social event
同义词： affair / occasion / function / social function
...结构特征的触发空气(initiating circumstance)、各类例行化的社会实践发生的“时空分区(region)”以及社会场合(social occasion)等概念都进行了详尽的阐述。
Make it a social occasion.
让运动成为你的社交活动。
He now claims this was merely a 'social occasion'!
现在他宣称这仅仅是一个“社交场合”！
Others make shopping centers a social occasion, meeting friends to shop and talk.
还有的人将购物中心当作社交场所，在那里与朋友见面、购物并交谈。
However, the life of the deceased should be celebrated "at some social occasion before or after the funeral", the Archbishop recommends.
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This will also encourage groups of friends to make shopping at your business a social occasion, and help you market those charming last minute gifts and clever stocking stuffers everyone needs.
The idea of actually having a tea party, at least at home, has long been relegated to the world of little girls, as a social occasion with dolls, stuffed toys and perhaps a semicooperative pet or two.
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