下面的回答摘自維基百科的英語原話配合翻譯。

Most people in US today call the midday meal “lunch,” but about seven percent of people said they’d call the midday meal “dinner”.

如今，大多數美國人人把午餐稱為“lunch”，但大約7%的人說他們會把午餐稱為“dinner”。

Eight percent of people who say dinner is the biggest meal of the day no matter what time you have it or the 12 percent who say dinner takes place in a more formal setting than supper.

8%的人說“dinner”是一天中最重要的一餐，不管你什么時候吃，12%的人說“dinner”是在比晚餐更正式的場合。

The roots of the difference go back to farming culture. On farms, dinner was a heavy meal that laborers ate to sustain themselves through a long afternoon. Its use has changed with modern life, but as we’ve seen, it can still suggest a heavy evening meal, while supper can be lighter evening fare.

這種差異的根源可以追溯到農耕文化。在農場，“dinner”是工人們吃的一頓豐盛的飯，用來維持一個漫長的下午。它的使用隨著現代生活的改變而改變，但正如我們所看到的，它仍然暗示著一頓豐盛的晚餐，而supper可以是簡單的晚餐。

a meal—“chow”— and it turns out to have a surprising origin. It was originally used to refer to just Chinese food because apparently, Chinese people in California in the 1800s used the phrase “chow-chow” to refer to food, and that eventually got shortened to just “chow” and the meaning expanded in English to include all kinds of food.

A meal——“chow”——其起源令人驚訝。它最初被用來指中國菜，因為很明顯，19世紀的加利福尼亞中國人用“chow-chow”這個短語來指代食物，最終被簡稱為“chow”，意思各種各樣的食物。