| 单词 |
cafeteria |
| 释义 |
cafeteria orig. U.S.|kæfəˈtɪərɪə|
[a. Amer.- Sp. cafetería coffee-shop.]
A coffee-house; a restaurant, esp. now a self-service restaurant.
1839J. L. Stephens Trav. Russian & Turkish Emp. I. 157 Every third shop, almost, being a cafteria [sic] where a parcel of huge turbanded fellows were at their daily labours of smoking pipes and drinking coffee. 1894Lakeside Directory Chicago 2188 Cafetiria Catering Co. 45 Lake. 1895Ibid. 2231 ‘Cafetiria’, 46 Lake, 80 Adams, 108 Quincy and 93 Vanburen. 1896Chicago Tribune 28 June 4/1 Gerbach used to be a waiter in a West Side restaurant subsequent to his employment by the cafeteria company. 1912Jrnl. Home Economics IV. 245 Exactly the same menu was served in a large college dining room and at the cafeteria. 1916H. Newmark Sixty Years in S. Calif. x. 133 Then came the cafetería... It was rather a place for drinking than for eating, and in this respect the name had little of the meaning current in parts of Mexico to-day, where a cafetería is a small restaurant serving ordinary alcoholic drinks and plain meals. 1923Mod. Lang. Notes Mar. 188 Every one knows by this time that a cafeteria is a ‘help yourself’ restaurant. 1925Glasgow Herald 30 July, Cafeterias, although a commonplace in America, are just beginning to have a hold in Paris. 1958Oxf. Mag. 8 May 410/2 Breakfast and lunch are served cafeteria style in Hall... How many colleges eat cafeteria-wise? |
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