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/ˈweɪtrɪs/
a woman whose job is to bring food and drinks to people at their tables in a restaurant.
女服務生
複數 waitresses
核心畫面
The same picture as waiter, with the ending -ess marking a woman: someone standing ready at the side of the restaurant, watching your table, bringing the menu, the food, the bill when you need them. The -ess ending is the old way English marked a female (actor / actress, host / hostess), and it can be thought of as a label stuck on the front picture rather than a different job.
畫面跟 waiter 一模一樣，只是字尾 -ess 標記出「女性」：一個人在餐廳邊上待命，眼睛顧著你這一桌，需要的時…更多收起
畫面跟 waiter 一模一樣，只是字尾 -ess 標記出「女性」：一個人在餐廳邊上待命，眼睛顧著你這一桌，需要的時候把菜單、餐點、帳單送過來。-ess 這個字尾可以想成是英文舊時給「做這件事的女性」貼的標籤（actor／actress、host／hostess），貼的是同一份工作，不是另一份工作。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。
waitressnoun/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/
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A female attendant who serves customers in a restaurant, café, or similar.
- a waitress in a cocktail bar.
- It would take a few more beers, but when the liquid courage kicked in, his wobbly legs were unable to keep pace with the fleetfooted waitress, who rolled her eyes, smiling, and finally twirled away.
waitressverb/ˈweɪ.tɹɪs/
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To work as a waitress.
- But it never did heal properly and Lizzie stayed on at the bar — waitressing until she came of legal age to bar-tend.
- The chefs never cooked before, the cashiers never cashiered before, the dishwashers never dishwashed before, the waitresses never waitressed before, and the managers never managed before.
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。