Picture a restaurant from two angles: the people sitting at the tables eating, and the building they are sitting in. English uses the same word for both — one is plus -er, the person; the other is a particular kind of small American restaurant.

可以想成:從兩個角度看同一間餐廳——一個是坐在桌邊吃飯的人,一個是他們坐著的那棟店。英文用同一個字指這兩者:前者是 dine 加上 -er,指人;後者則專指美國那種小餐館。

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原始詞典資料5 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。

dinernoun詞源 1/ˈdaɪ̯nə/

  • 1

    Someone who dines.

    • The most rapid and most seductive transition in all human nature is that which attends the palliation of a ravenous appetite.[…]Can those harmless but refined fellow-diners be the selfish cads whose gluttony and personal appearance so raised your contemptuous wrath on your arrival?
    • When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.
  • 2

    rareSomeone who gives a dinner.

    • In the noble science of gastronomy, likewise, he who can not afford to collect a cellar of wines, and accumulate the rarities of distant climes and seasons, will make but little progress, For, though the diner and the dinee, the host and the guest, have similar sources open to them, yet the most practised parasite can not attain to the same regular course of study, as the Amphitryon Millionaire.
    • f I was broke, we’d just hang out at his place or my place looking at videos. This was very new and very different for me. Like I said, I’d been used to being wined and dined, you know, being the “dinee”. Is that a word? Anyway, now, I’m the “diner”. Does that make any sense? You know what I’m trying to say, right?
  • 3

    A car in a railroad train that serves meals.

    • Pacific No. 60123, H. A. Ivatt, a Leeds engine with 12 corridors, but no diners, went by, however.
    • The diner is everybody's kitchen.
  • 4

    A typically small restaurant, historically modeled after a railroad dining car, that serves lower-class fare, normally having a counter with stools along one side and booths on the other.

dinernoun詞源 2

  • 1

    A commemorative currency of Andorra, not legal tender, divided into 100 centims.

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