dumbwaiter

<美>（楼上下之间）送饭菜的小升降机; 送菜升降机

发音

CA /ˈdʌmˌweɪtəɹ/
US /ˈdʌmˌweɪtəɹ/

词形变化

dumbwaiters 复数 dumbwaiters

别名

dumb-waiter dumb waiter

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A small elevator used to move food etc. from one floor of a building to another.

  2. 2.

    A table or set of trays on rollers used for serving food.

    废旧
  3. 3.

    A lazy Susan.

    废旧

词汇关系

名词

上位词 2

lift elevator

词源

From dumb (“unable to speak”) + waiter, originally separate words and describing the portable table's inability to relate gossip after the meal. By the use of the term to describe small service elevators in American homes in the 1840s, it simply meant dumb as “mechanical”, “unable to speak at all”.

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