One way to hold this word: a door with the word coffee over it, and a room behind the door where people sit down. The name over the door stays the same everywhere in the English-speaking world. What is on the tables behind it does not. So the safest way to read this word is to ask where you are standing.

可以想成一扇門,門上寫著 coffee,門後是一個讓人坐下來的空間。招牌到哪裡都一樣。門後端上桌的東西卻會變。在今天多數地方,那是一杯咖啡配一塊蛋糕;在美國,可能是一整份早餐;在英國的百貨或飯店裡,是逛累了歇腳的地方;在馬來西亞和新加坡,指的是老式的 kopitiam。所以讀這個詞的時候,先問一句:這句話是在哪裡說的。

From the word’s history

The supplied source entry gives the formation simply as coffee plus shop, and notes separately that the Dutch use of coffeeshop is a pseudo-anglicism borrowed back from this phrase.

資料上寫的組成很單純:coffee(咖啡)加 shop(店)。同一筆資料另外註明,荷蘭文的 coffeeshop 是從這個英文詞借過去後再變意思的。

Wiktionary entry for coffee shop, supplied in packet (kaikki:3f6f69a190036ae4:1167718816:5350)

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