喜樂美語
  1. 1nA1/ˈweɪtər/ · /ˈweɪtə/服務生；男侍者

    a man whose job is to bring food and drinks to people at tables in a restaurant.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei asked the waiter for a glass of water.

    逐字美向服務生要了一杯水。

    「waiter」是餐廳裡「把食物和飲料送到客人桌上的男性服務人員」。How can we think of it? 核心畫面可以想成「在餐桌旁邊等候、幫客人點餐、端菜、收盤子」。台灣口語常說「服務生」。LDOCE 這義標的是男性；女性傳統上說 waitress，現在也常聽到不分性別的 server。可數名詞，複數是 waiters。

    常見搭配

    • ask the waiter

      跟服務生要／問

      to request something from the waiter

      Please ask the waiter for more napkins.

    • tell the waiter

      告訴服務生

      to say something to the waiter

      Tell the waiter if you need a high chair for the baby.

    • head waiter

      領班；侍應領班

      the main waiter who leads the other waiters

      The head waiter remembered Dad's name from last week.

    • wine waiter

      酒侍；專責酒類的服務生

      a waiter whose special job is to serve wine

      At the fancy restaurant, a wine waiter explained the grape juice list to Mum.

    • work as a waiter

      當服務生

      to have a job as a waiter

      Sam's big brother works as a waiter on weekends.

    • the waiter brings / brought

      服務生端來／送來

      the waiter carries food or drinks to the table

      The waiter brought fresh fruit and warm soup.

    意思相近

    serverattendant

    意思相反

    customerdinerguest

core核心畫面

Picture a man standing quietly at the side of a restaurant, keeping an eye on your table. He is not doing anything of his own; he is there for the moment you need something — then he brings the menu, the food, the bill. The word can be thought of as sitting on that idea of waiting on somebody: in English you wait on people at a table, which is not "waiting for them" but attending to them, staying ready.

可以想成一個男生安靜地站在餐廳邊上，眼睛顧著你這一桌。他沒有在忙自己的事，他在那裡是為了你需要東西的那一刻——然後他把菜單、餐點、帳單一樣樣送過來。這個字可以想成是從 wait on somebody 這個用法長出來的：英文說 wait on people at a table，不是「等他們」，而是「隨侍在旁、照顧他們」，重點在那份「隨時待命」的狀態。

複數 waiters

意思相近

serverattendant

意思相反

customerdinerguest

原始詞典資料7 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。

waiternoun/ˈweɪ̯təː/

  • 1

    A male or female attendant who serves customers at their tables in a restaurant, café or similar.

    • Waiter! There's a fly in my soup.
    • She was a fat, round little woman, richly apparelled in velvet and lace, […]; and the way she laughed, cackling like a hen, the way she talked to the waiters and the maid,[…]—all these unexpected phenomena impelled one to hysterical mirth, and made one class her with such immortally ludicrous types as Ally Sloper, the Widow Twankey, or Miss Moucher.
  • 2

    Someone who waits for somebody or something; a person who is waiting.

    • However, the NTPF also contained implicit negative incentives for the public sector by offering alternative private sector treatment for the longest waiters at no extra cost to patients or no penalty to public providers.
  • 3

    historicalA person working as an attendant at the London Stock Exchange.

  • 4

    obsoleteA vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver. (See etymology of dumbwaiter.)

    • Cautioning her, in these terms, not to trip over a heterogeneous litter of pastry-cook’s trays, lamps, waiters full of glasses, and piles of rout seats which were strewn about the hall, plainly bespeaking a late party on the previous night, the man led the way to the second story […]
  • 5

    obsoleteA custom house officer; a tide waiter.

  • 6

    obsoleteA watchman.

waiterverb/ˈweɪ̯təː/

  • 1

    To work as a waiter.

    • I had definitely had my fill of factory jobs, but had never worked in an office, nor bussed, nor waitered.
    • He dropped out and waitered at the Spain but was fired for throwing water in a customer’s face.

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。