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dumbwaiter的意思
dumbwaiter
英 ['d?m'we?t?]
美 ['d?m'wet?]
- n. 升降機；餐桌旁的上菜架
英文詞源
- dumbwaiter (n.)
- 1749, an article of furniture, from dumb (adj.) + waiter (apparently because it serves as a waiter but is silent). As a movable platform for passing dishes, etc., up and down from one room (especially a basement kitchen) to another, from 1847.
雙語例句
- 1. British playwright whose works, including The Dumbwaiter ( 1957 ) and Birthday Party ( 1958 ), create an atmosphere of menace.
- 品特,哈羅德生于1930英國劇作家,他的作品創(chuàng)造出一種恐嚇氣氛, 包括看房者 ( 1957年 ) 和生日宴會 ( 1958年 )
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