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A bellboy is a hotel worker who carries bags, takes messages, and helps guests to their rooms. The old picture is a young man in a uniform, because the front desk rang a bell and “the boy” came running. Though actually, the person may not be young and may not be a man; many hotels have dropped the word. In British English, porter is often the everyday choice. Bellboy still turns up in older hotels, in American films, and in signs that have not been rewritten. It is not rude by itself, but it can sound dated, and the “boy” in it is an old habit of naming service staff, not a comment on someone’s age. He is not there to ring church bells.
飯店行李員(舊稱,傳統上是年輕男性;現在多說行李員)
原始詞典資料1 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,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。
bellboynoun/ˈbɛlˌbɔɪ/
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A male worker, usually at a hotel, who carries luggage and runs errands.
- He twisted his head to where the bellboy stared at him in open-eyed wonder.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。