Waiter
['weɪtə] or ['wetɚ]
解释:
(noun.) a person whose occupation is to serve at table (as in a restaurant).
(noun.) a person who waits or awaits.
欧文校对--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) One who, or that which, waits; an attendant; a servant in attendance, esp. at table.
(n.) A vessel or tray on which something is carried, as dishes, etc.; a salver.
伊莱恩整理
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Attendant, servant, servitor, vassal, lackey, valet, squire.[2]. Tray, salver.
整理:米歇尔
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a waiter, signifies you will be pleasantly entertained by a friend. To see one cross or disorderly, means offensive people will thrust themselves upon your hospitality.
埃利斯手打
例句:
- The chief waiter had had enough of me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The waiter coughed, as if he modestly invited me to get over that. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- With his mind apparently relieved from an overwhelming weight, by having at last got an order for something, the waiter imperceptibly melted away. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- The waiter was despatched on both errands. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- If you'll order the waiter to deliver him anything short, he won't drink it off at once, won't he! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Before the waiter had answered the call, the mechanic had vanished. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- If I didn't support a aged pairint, and a lovely sister,'--here the waiter was greatly agitated--'I wouldn't take a farthing. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Rather chagrined, the waiter followed. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- Waiter, show this gentleman out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Blowed if the gen'lm'n worn't a-gettin' up on the wrong side,' whispered a grinning post-boy to the inexpressibly gratified waiter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Waiter, rack punch. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- In the patents of Sir Waiter Raleigh, to the London and Plymouth companies, to the council of Plymouth, etc. 亚当·斯密. 国富论.
- It wouldn't be bad,' he yawned at one time, 'to give the waiter five shillings, and throw him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Some hours later, while I was resting in the coffee-room, a letter was placed in my hands by the waiter. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- You shall have some of the very best, sir,' replied the waiter. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Wery fresh,' replied Sam; 'me and the two waiters at the Peacock has been a-pumpin' over the independent woters as supped there last night. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I began to think he would get on, in spite of all the many orders of chief waiters in England. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- Call the waiters,' said the old gentleman. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Fancy articles entirely--sell for waiters, and so on, to rich 'uns, that can pay for handsome 'uns. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- I hobbled off to my army of waiters downstairs. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The boys applied whip and spur, the waiters shouted, the hostlers cheered, and away they went, fast and furiously. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- George pooh-poohed the wine and bullied the waiters royally, and Jos gobbled the turtle with immense satisfaction. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- Waiters never walk or run. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- Jos was in his glory, ordering about the waiters with great majesty. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
- The waiters were busy bringing drinks from the bar to the tables. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- Call the waiters! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- I didn't see a single exception except the waiters and myself. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- She had another admirer, one of the head-waiters at the inn at Salt Hill. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I asked one of the waiters concerning the boat itself, and was taken to see the engineer, and went down to look at the engines, and saw the captain. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The shabbiness of these attendants upon shabbiness, the poverty of these insolvent waiters upon insolvency, was a sight to see. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
整理:奥利维亚