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A salver is a large metal plate, often silver or made to look like silver, used to carry food or drink to people at a formal meal. You do not eat off it the way you eat off a dinner plate. Someone holds it out — sometimes high, on one hand — and presents glasses, cake, a letter, or a visiting card. Everyday English says tray; salver belongs to hotels, palaces, old novels, and waiters in black and white. Though actually, not every salver is huge: some are small, for one glass or one envelope. The idea is always “I am offering this, formally,” not “this is my plate.” It is a rather , slightly old-fashioned word. People also speak of a card salver by the door in houses that still play that old visiting game.
托盤；銀盤（正式場合端酒、端菜或呈上信件用的金屬大盤，不是自己吃飯的盤子）
組成For this serving plate, the usual story is salve, an old verb meaning “to save,” plus -er: food could be tasted from the plate first, to save an important person from poison. There was also an older English salver that meant a little box of healing cream (salve, the ointment), built as salve + -er in a different sense. For the plate you carry drinks on, it is the “save” story that fits.
原始詞典資料4 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。
salvernoun詞源 1
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One who salves or cures.
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One who pretends to cure; a quacksalver.
salvernoun詞源 2
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One who salves or saves goods, etc. from destruction or loss.
salvernoun詞源 3
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A tray used to display or serve food or other items (such as a visiting card).
- As athletes mount the podiums, volunteers dressed in Louis Vuitton-designed uniforms will bear the awards, presented on Louis Vuitton-made salvers featuring the house's signature brown check.
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。