- 1（戲謔）服務生（刻意造出的中性說法，帶點「機器人」的調侃味；一般說 server 或 waiting staff）
A person who serves food in a restaurant — a made-up word meant to cover waiters and waitresses at once, without saying whether the person is a man or a woman. English had a problem: 'waiter' sounded male, 'waitress' sounded female, and people wanted one neutral word. 'Waitron' was one attempt, mostly American, mostly from the 1980s. It never really settled. It sounds slightly like a robot — the '-tron' ending belongs to words like 'Cyclotron' and 'Megatron' — so people usually say it with a smile, or a little sarcasm, about someone doing the job . If you actually need a neutral word today, say 'server' (American) or 'waiting staff' / 'wait staff' for the group. Keep 'waitron' for jokes, and expect that many native speakers have never heard it.
組成wait (as in waiter, 'to serve at table') + -tron, an ending borrowed from Greek and used in machine names. Coined on purpose to avoid the -er / -ress split of waiter and waitress.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，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。
waitronnoun詞源 1
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rareA waiter or waitress.
- With adolescent perversity, he turned up his nose at all of the elegant French items on the Closerie's menu and scandalized the waitron by demanding corned-beef hash—fried extra crisp—with poached eggs, a slice of fresh papaya with lime, banana-walnut bread, and a pitcher of Mexican chocolate.
- Table Service is the combined interaction between the guest and the waitron whilst seated at a table in the establishment's restaurant.
waitronnoun詞源 2
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datedliteraturemediapublishingA robotic or mechanical waiter.
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