- 1nA2
/rɪˈsepʃənɪst/
someone whose job is to welcome people and help them when they arrive at a hotel, office, or doctor's place.
接待員
複數 receptionists
核心畫面
Picture the first desk you meet when you push open the door of a hotel, a clinic, or an office — the desk placed right where strangers arrive. The person sitting there is the one who looks up, says your name back to you, and decides where you go next: sign here, take a seat, the doctor is ready, go up to the fourth floor. That position can be held as the picture inside the word: the person stationed at the point where the outside world enters, whose job is to receive people and pass them on smoothly.
可以想成你推開飯店、診所或公司的門之後，第一個遇到的那張桌子——就擺在陌生人進來的位置上。坐在那裡的人會抬頭看你、把…更多收起
可以想成你推開飯店、診所或公司的門之後，第一個遇到的那張桌子——就擺在陌生人進來的位置上。坐在那裡的人會抬頭看你、把你的名字複述一遍，然後決定你接下來往哪走：這裡簽個名、先坐一下、醫生可以看了、請上四樓。這個「站在外面世界進來的那一點上」的位置，可以拿來當作 receptionist 的畫面：他的工作就是把人接下來，再順順地把人送往裡面。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。
receptionistnoun/ɹɪˈsɛp.ʃə.nɪst/
- 1
An employee (such as a secretary) who works in reception (receiving visitors and/or calls) for a person or business, especially an office.
- "At the moment, I think I'm working for the Central Intelligence Corporation, the Mafia, and Mr. Lee's Greater Hong Kong." "I see," the receptionist, making a note.
- 2
lifestylereligiontheologyA proponent of receptionism.
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。