cafeteria
英 [ˌkæf.əˈtɪə.ri.ə]
美 [ˌkæf.əˈtɪr.i.ə]
将“cafeteria”分解为“café”和“eteria”。想象一个“café”(咖啡馆)扩展成“eteria”(大型的餐饮区),这样就形成了“cafeteria”(自助餐厅)的画面,有助于记忆。
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cafeteria 自助餐厅词源同coffee. -teria, 地名后缀。原指兼卖咖啡的小餐馆。
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cafeteria: see coffee
- cafeteria (n.)
- 1839, American English, from Mexican Spanish cafeteria "coffee store," from café "coffee" (see coffee) + Spanish -tería "place where something is done" (usually business). The ending came to be understood popularly as meaning "help-yourself" (as though café + -teria) and was extended to new formation with that sense from c. 1923.
- 1. People are sprawled on makeshift beds in the cafeteria.
- 人们懒散地躺在食堂里搭起的临时床铺上。
- 2. Does the college cafeteria provide a healthful diet?
- 大学餐厅供应的膳食是否有益健康呢?
- 3. In the cafeteria we serve ourselves.
- 在自助餐馆我们是自己拿菜的.
- 4. I went and had an overpriced cup of coffee in the hotel cafeteria.
- 我去酒店的咖啡厅喝了一杯要价奇高的咖啡。
- 5. I noticed a lone man in the cafeteria swabbing the floor as I passed.
- 我路过时注意到一个男子独自在自助餐厅里拖地。