wait tables

释义

1. 牛津电影里 100%

   （在餐馆）端盘子，招待顾客

   to work serving food to people in a restaurant

   Last job I had before I offed was waiting tables.

电影里这样说 · 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
• You'd have your own table waiting at all times.The Big Chill1983

在完整场景里学

• 搏击俱乐部1999
  • 枪管塞嘴里的倒计时：controlled demolition（受控爆破）
  • 互助小组里抱头痛哭：assume the worst（往最坏处想）
  • 两个假病号互相拆穿：the big tourist（蹭体验的外人）
• 非强力春药1995
  • 餐厅里争论生孩子：out of left field（冷不丁）
  • 为宝宝取名吵半天：put my foot down（坚决反对）
  • 为汉普顿之行吵翻：old passion（从前的激情）

同一词条的短语

• 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