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A cybercafé is a café — or a small shop — where you pay to use a computer with the internet, or sit with your own laptop on their connection. In the 1990s and 2000s this was how a lot of people got online, before a phone was a tiny computer in your pocket. Though actually, in many English-speaking places the word has gone a little old-fashioned: people say internet café, or just name the shop. The French-looking é in café is often dropped, so you will also see cybercafe. And the “café” in the English word makes students picture coffee and cake. In Taiwan the living place is 網咖: often a late-night room with fast machines for games, not a quiet coffee shop. Same family of idea — a public room for going online — but the feeling of the room can be quite different.
網咖(台灣用語;大陸較常說「網吧」。英語 cybercafé 已略舊,這裡認網咖即可)
組成From cyber- + café. cyber- comes from cybernetic, from Ancient Greek kubernētikós; here it means “internet.” café is French for a coffee house.
同家族的字
- caféthe second half — a place that serves drinks, at least in the original picture
- cyberneticthe older word that cyber- was cut from
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。
cybercafénoun
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datedA café in which customers may access the Internet, play video games etc.
- The notion of a cybercafe—a place for Net surfers to socialize on a tide of gourmet coffee—is at odds with how most people want to use computers, even in their leisure time.
- Most recently, the rattiest old cybercafes in Queens have been shut down, following too-frequent fights among hotheaded video-game patrons. And the once-glamorous @Cafe in Manhattan was already boarded up by 1998!
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。