喜樂美語
  1. 1nA1/ˈweɪtrɪs/女服務生

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

    示範例句 · Example

    The waitress comes and we order a pizza.

    逐字那女服務生來了，然後我們點一個披薩。

    「waitress」是餐廳裡把餐點、飲料送到桌上的女性工作人員，台灣常說「女服務生」或「女侍者」。常見說法：work as a waitress（當女服務生）、ask the waitress（問女服務生）、the waitress takes our order（女服務生幫我們點餐）。waiter 是做同樣工作的男性；很多餐廳現在也用 server 這個較不分性別的說法。How can we think of waitress? 核心畫面可以想成「在餐桌邊為你服務的女性」。

    常見搭配

    • work as a waitress

      當女服務生

      to have a job serving food and drinks in a restaurant

      She worked as a waitress to save money for school.

    • ask the waitress

      問／請女服務生

      to speak to the waitress to request something

      He asked the waitress if they had any juice.

    • the waitress takes our order

      女服務生幫我們點餐

      the waitress writes down what we want to eat or drink

      The waitress takes our order and brings warm soup soon after.

    • tip the waitress

      給女服務生小費

      to give the waitress a little extra money for good service

      We tipped the waitress because she was so kind.

    • a friendly waitress

      親切的女服務生

      a waitress who is warm and kind to customers

      A friendly waitress showed us to our table.

    意思相近

    serverattendant

core核心畫面

The same picture as waiter, with the ending -ess marking a woman: someone standing ready at the side of the restaurant, watching your table, bringing the menu, the food, the bill when you need them. The -ess ending is the old way English marked a female (actor / actress, host / hostess), and it can be thought of as a label stuck on the front picture rather than a different job.

畫面跟 waiter 一模一樣，只是字尾 -ess 標記出「女性」：一個人在餐廳邊上待命，眼睛顧著你這一桌，需要的時候把菜單、餐點、帳單送過來。-ess 這個字尾可以想成是英文舊時給「做這件事的女性」貼的標籤（actor／actress、host／hostess），貼的是同一份工作，不是另一份工作。

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 waitresses

意思相近

serverattendant

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。

waitressnoun/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/

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    A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.

    • a waitress in a cocktail bar.
    • It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.

waitressverb/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/

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    To work as a waitress.

    • But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.
    • The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.

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。