wait tables

釋義

1. 牛津電影裡 100%

   （在餐館）端盤子，招待顧客

   to work serving food to people in a restaurant

   Last job I had before I offed was waiting tables.

電影裡這樣說 · 4 部

• Ah, bueno. There's no shame in waiting tables.In the Heights2021
• Waiting tables.Fight Club1999
• Last job I had before I offed was waiting tables.Wristcutters: A Love Story2007
• We need someone to wait tables.Ratatouille2007
• I had a job waiting tables once, on a riverboat.Lonesome Dove1989
• But she worked really hard, and she studied, and she earned her real estate license while she was waiting tables to support us.Crazy Rich Asians2018
• I waited on tables. I worked in a massage parlor. I did phone sex.Mighty Aphrodite1995
• Driving taxis, waiting on tables, anything to make a dollar.Key Largo1948

在完整場景裡學

• 搏擊俱樂部1999
  • 槍管塞嘴裡的倒計時：controlled demolition（受控爆破）
  • 互助小組裡抱頭痛哭：assume the worst（往最壞處想）
  • 兩個假病號互相拆穿：the big tourist（蹭體驗的外人）
• 非強力春藥1995
  • 餐廳裡爭論生孩子：out of left field（冷不丁）
  • 為寶寶取名吵半天：put my foot down（堅決反對）
  • 為漢普頓之行吵翻：old passion（從前的激情）

同一詞條的短語

• an accident disaster waiting to happen
• I, they, can't wait hardly wait
• keep waiting
• wait and see
• wait at table
• wait for it
• wait a minute
• wait on hand and foot
• wait till
• what are we waiting for
• what are you waiting for
• you wait