Get treated to lunch. What does this mean?
They can gang up and take down the wildebeest, but today, nature hands them a gift. A weakened one. The brothers get treated to lunch, while the female goes hungry.

Does it mean 'Los hermanos fueron invitados a comer, mientras la hembra se va/marcha hambrienta.'?

Thank you :)

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Get treated to lunch. What does this mean?
They can gang up and take down the wildebeest, but today, nature hands them a gift. A weakened one. The brothers get treated to lunch, while the female goes hungry.

Does it mean 'Los hermanos fueron invitados a comer, mientras la hembra se va/marcha hambrienta.'?

Thank you :)

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It's not exactly 'invited'! It means a free, or almost free lunch. If someone treats you to lunch, it means that you get lunch without having to pay for it. In this situation it means that the males enjoyed a meal that they didn't have to work hard to get. Nature gave them a gift of a weakened wildebeest which they killed very easily.

The phrase 'to go hungry' has nothing to do with going anywhere. There is no movement meant in the verb 'go'. If someone 'goes hungry' it means that they don't have anything to eat. The sister 'went hungry' simply means that she didn't get any of the wildebeest.

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