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Clientele is all the people who regularly use a shop, restaurant, hotel, or a professional’s service — not one guest, but the crowd that keeps coming back. A café may have a young student clientele; a clinic may have an older clientele.
Clientele客群 is all the people who regularly use a shop, restaurant, hotel, or a professional's service是指經常光顧一家店、餐廳、飯店或某個專業服務的所有人——not one guest不是指某一位客人,but the crowd that keeps coming back而是那群一直回頭來的人。 A café may have a young student clientele一家咖啡店可能有年輕學生客群;a clinic may have an older clientele一家診所可能有年紀較大的客群。
The word feels a little formal and a little French, because English borrowed it from French clientèle, and that goes back to Latin cliens, the same root as English client.
The word feels a little formal and a little French這個字聽起來有點正式又帶點法式味道,because English borrowed it from French clientèle因為英文是從法文clientèle借來的,and that goes back to Latin cliens而那又可以追溯到拉丁文cliens,the same root as English client跟英文client是同一個字根。
Owners, , and people talking about business use it. It often carries a hint about what kind of people they are, not only how many. You would not point at one person and say “that is my clientele.” For one person, say customer or client.
Owners, reviewers, and people talking about business店主、評論者,還有談生意的人 use it都會用這個字。 It often carries a hint about what kind of people they are它常常暗示這群人是什麼樣的人,not only how many而不只是數量。 You would not point at one person and say "that is my clientele."你不會指著一個人說「這是我的clientele」。For one person, say customer or client對單一個人要說customer或client。
組成Borrowed from French clientèle, ultimately from Latin cliens, the same root as English client.
同家族的字
- clientone person who uses a service; clientele is the whole group, from the same Latin root
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。
clientelenoun[klaɪ.n̩ˈtɛl]
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The body or class of people who frequent an establishment or purchase a service, especially when considered as forming a more-or-less homogeneous group of clients in terms of values or habits; a group of specific clients collectively.
- Helen's clientele encompasses a broad range of different ages, races and social statuses.
- The bars’ clientèle called Foucault “Herr Doktor”.
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。