• n. 自助餐廳

詞源同coffee. -teria, 地名后綴。原指兼賣咖啡的小餐館。

cafeteria

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.

人們懶散地躺在食堂里搭起的臨時(shí)床鋪上。

來自柯林斯例句

2. Does the college cafeteria provide a healthful diet?

大學(xué)餐廳供應(yīng)的膳食是否有益健康呢？

來自柯林斯例句

3. In the cafeteria we serve ourselves.

在自助餐館我們是自己拿菜的.

來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4. I went and had an overpriced cup of coffee in the hotel cafeteria.

我去酒店的咖啡廳喝了一杯要價(jià)奇高的咖啡。

來自柯林斯例句

5. I noticed a lone man in the cafeteria swabbing the floor as I passed.

我路過時(shí)注意到一個(gè)男子獨(dú)自在自助餐廳里拖地。

來自柯林斯例句