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A habitué is someone who goes to the same place, or the same kind of event, so often that the place feels like theirs — the woman always at that jazz club, the man who never misses Thursday at the café. Staff may already know their order. It is a French word still wearing French clothes, so it sounds educated, a little old-fashioned, and a little stylish. You meet it in writing and in reviews more than in young people’s speech. Nobody is being if they have never heard it; the everyday English is regular or regular customer. It is about showing up, not about having a “habit” like biting your nails, though the family likeness is real.
常客(較文的法語借詞;口語多說「常客」就夠)
原始詞典資料2 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。
habituénoun/həˈbɪt͡ʃuˌeɪ/
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One who frequents a place.
- A month ago the new smoking ban turned thousands of bar-room habitués into reluctant exiles from their usual corner seat.
- At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.[…]In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
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A devotee.
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。