à la carte
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释义与例句
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1.
Allowing selection from a fixed list of individually priced options shown on the menu.
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The restaurant had a huge à la carte menu and four specials that day.
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2.
Selective; only choosing what one likes or desires.
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A meal but only the viand (without rice).
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By ordering individually priced items from the menu.
There were two divisions in the restaurants I used to visit. One division, which was patronized by fairly well-to-do people, provided any number of courses from which one chose and paid for à la carte, each dinner thus costing from one to two shillings. The other division provided six-penny dinners of three courses with a slice of bread. In my days of strict frugality I usually dined in the second division.
词源
Unadapted borrowing from French à la carte (“on the menu; according to the card”).
来源：wiktionary