diner
diner — 名詞
- dinersingular
- dinersplural
1. a person who is having a meal, especially at a restaurant or other food-serving
用餐者
在餐廳吃飯的人
a person who is having a meal, especially at a restaurant or other food-serving place
The diner at the next table complained that his steak was overcooked.
隔壁桌的用餐者抱怨他的牛排煎得太熟了。
countable noun with definite article + prepositional phrase
Most diners leave a tip of around fifteen percent for good service.
大多數用餐者會留下大約百分之十五的小費，作為對良好服務的回報。
Baraka noticed that every diner in the cafe seemed to be reading a newspaper.
Baraka 注意到咖啡廳裡每位用餐者似乎都在看報紙。
A lone diner sat at the corner table, slowly working through a bowl of soup.
一名獨自用餐者坐在角落桌旁，慢慢地喝著一碗湯。
premodified by 'lone' / 'fellow' showing singular diner
- fellow diner
- lone diner
- hungry diner
- paying diner
- restaurant diner
用法筆記
Often used in restaurant reviews or descriptions of dining settings. Commonly premodified by adjectives such as 'fellow', 'lone', 'hungry', or 'paying'.
常見錯誤
2. a small, inexpensive eating place, often with a long counter and booths, typical
平價餐館
美國常見的平價小餐館
a small, inexpensive eating place, often with a long counter and booths, typically found along roads or in small towns in the United States
Eleni and Jude stopped at a roadside diner for burgers and milkshakes.
Eleni 和 Jude 在一間路邊小餐館停下來吃漢堡和奶昔。
roadside diner — typical location collocation
The diner on Maple Street serves huge plates of pancakes for just five dollars.
楓樹街那家平價餐館的煎餅份量很大，一份只要五美元。
Mert's favorite all-night diner stays open twenty-four hours near the bus station.
Mert 最喜歡的那家二十四小時營業的路邊餐館，就在巴士站附近。
all-night diner — common modifier
That old diner still has a classic jukebox and red vinyl stools at the counter.
那間老餐館仍然有一台經典的點唱機和櫃檯前的紅色塑料圓凳。
- roadside diner
- all-night diner
- local diner
- cheap diner
- downtown diner
- café
more general; can range from simple to upscale
- eatery
informal and broad; not specific to any style
- greasy spoon
very informal, sometimes negative, suggesting low quality
用法筆記
Primarily used in American English. British English more commonly uses 'café' or 'caff' for a similar concept. The word often carries a nostalgic or retro connotation of mid-20th-century American culture.
常見錯誤
3. a carriage on a passenger train where meals are served to passengers during the
餐車
火車上供應餐點的車廂
a carriage on a passenger train where meals are served to passengers during the journey
The train's diner had white tablecloths and fresh flowers on every table.
那列火車的餐車每張桌子上都鋪著白色桌布、擺著鮮花。
possessive: train's diner
Quan walked through three passenger cars to reach the diner for lunch.
Quan 穿過三節客車車廂，走到餐車去吃午餐。
The diner on this route is famous for its steak dinners and window views.
這條路線的餐車以牛排套餐和窗外美景聞名。
diner = dining car on a passenger train
Passengers chose the diner so they could eat while watching the countryside.
乘客們選擇在餐車用餐，以便邊吃邊欣賞鄉村風景。
- train diner
- diner car
- luxury diner
- diner attendant
- dining car
fully interchangeable; slightly more formal
- restaurant car
chiefly British term for the same thing
用法筆記
Exchangeable with 'dining car' in most contexts. This sense is the historical origin of sense 2 — many roadside diners were originally built from repurposed railroad dining cars.