cafeteria
英 [k?f?'t??r??]
美[,k?f?'t?r??]
- n. 自助餐廳
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詞態變化
復數:?cafeterias;
中文詞源
cafeteria 自助餐廳
詞源同coffee. -teria, 地名后綴。原指兼賣咖啡的小餐館。
英文詞源
- cafeteria
- cafeteria: see coffee
- cafeteria (n.)
- 1839, American English, from Mexican Spanish cafeteria "coffee store," from café "coffee" (see coffee) + Spanish -tería "place where something is done" (usually business). The ending came to be understood popularly as meaning "help-yourself" (as though café + -teria) and was extended to new formation with that sense from c. 1923.
雙語例句
- 1. People are sprawled on makeshift beds in the cafeteria.
- 人們懶散地躺在食堂里搭起的臨時床鋪上。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Does the college cafeteria provide a healthful diet?
- 大學餐廳供應的膳食是否有益健康呢？
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. In the cafeteria we serve ourselves.
- 在自助餐館我們是自己拿菜的.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 4. I went and had an overpriced cup of coffee in the hotel cafeteria.
- 我去酒店的咖啡廳喝了一杯要價奇高的咖啡。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. I noticed a lone man in the cafeteria swabbing the floor as I passed.
- 我路過時注意到一個男子獨自在自助餐廳里拖地。
來自柯林斯例句