喜樂美語
  1. 1nA2/ˌkæfəˈtɪriə/ · /ˌkæfəˈtɪəriə/自助餐廳

    A place at school or work where you choose food that is already cooked and carry it to a table yourself.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei meets her friends every day in the school cafeteria.

    逐字美每天在學校自助餐廳遇見她的朋友們。

    「cafeteria」是英文裡「學校、公司、工廠裡自己選菜、自己端盤子去坐的餐廳」，台灣常說「自助餐廳」或「學生餐廳／員工餐廳」。核心畫面可以想成「拿托盤 → 選已經煮好的菜 → 端到桌子吃」——重點是 self-service，不是服務生送餐。跟 cafe（咖啡廳／輕食店）分開：cafe 多半賣咖啡和小吃；跟 buffet（常是吃到飽）也分開：cafeteria 多半是一份一份選、再結帳。英式英語常說 canteen，意思很接近。

    常見搭配

    • school cafeteria

      學校自助餐廳／學生餐廳

      the self-service restaurant at a school

      We eat lunch in the school cafeteria.

    • cafeteria food

      自助餐廳的餐點

      the meals served in that place

      Some days the cafeteria food is surprisingly good.

    • in the cafeteria

      在自助餐廳裡

      inside that self-service restaurant

      Please meet me in the cafeteria after class.

    • company / office cafeteria

      公司／辦公室自助餐廳

      the self-service restaurant at a workplace

      Many workers buy lunch in the office cafeteria.

    • go to the cafeteria

      去自助餐廳

      walk there to eat or meet someone

      Let's go to the cafeteria for soup and rice.

    • cafeteria door / line

      自助餐廳門口／排隊

      the entrance or the queue for food there

      Hana joined the cafeteria line for noodles.

    意思相近

    canteenlunchroomself-service restaurantrefectory

    用法接近

    cafecoffee shopdinerrestaurantfood courtbuffet

core核心畫面

Picture a long counter with the food already cooked and sitting there in trays — rice, soup, a few hot dishes, some fruit. You take a tray, walk along the line, point at what you want or pick it up yourself, pay at the end, and carry your own food to a table. Nobody comes to your seat to take an order. That walk-along-and-help-yourself eating room, usually inside a school, a hospital, an office or a factory rather than out on the street, is the whole picture of the word.

可以想成一條長長的取餐檯，菜早就煮好了，一盤一盤放在那裡——飯、湯、幾道熱菜、幾樣水果。你拿一個托盤，沿著檯子走，看到想吃的就指一指或自己夾，走到底結帳，再自己端到位子上坐下。沒有人會走到你桌邊幫你點餐。這個「自己走、自己拿、自己端」的用餐空間，通常長在學校、醫院、公司或工廠裡面，而不是開在街上做生意，就是這個字的全部畫面。

From the word’s history

From Mexican Spanish cafeteria 'coffee store' — cafe 'coffee' plus Spanish -teria 'a place where something is done'. It entered American English in 1839 simply meaning 'a cafe', and only by the 1890s settled on 'self-service dining establishment'. English speakers then re-read the ending -teria as if it meant 'help yourself', and from about 1923 started coining new words with it on that basis.

這個字來自墨西哥西班牙文的 cafeteria「賣咖啡的店」，是 cafe（咖啡）加上西班牙文的 -teria（做某件事的場所）。1839 年進入美式英文時，它就只是「咖啡館」的意思，一直到 1890 年代才定下來變成「自助式的餐飲場所」。有趣的是，英語使用者後來把字尾 -teria 讀成好像本身就帶著「自己動手拿」的意思，從 1923 年前後開始照這個感覺造新字。所以「自助」這一層並不是原本就藏在字裡的，是後來一路用出來、再被回頭讀進去的。

Online Etymology Dictionary (etymonline.com), entry 'cafeteria'

容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。

複數 cafeterias

意思相近

canteenlunchroomself-service restaurantrefectory

用法接近

cafecoffee shopdinerrestaurantfood courtbuffet

原始詞典資料2 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

cafeterianoun/ˌka.fə.ˈtɪə̯.ɹi.ə/

  • 1

    A restaurant in which customers select their food at a counter then carry it on a tray to a table to eat.

  • 2

    A dining area in an institution where meals may be purchased (as above), provided, or brought in from elsewhere.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。