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WAITER
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Traducere în limba română
waiter substantiv
1. persoană care aşteaptă; solicitant.
2. ospătar, chelner.
3. funcţionar de vamă.
4. tavă.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Well, but now for my news; it is about dear Wickham; too good for the waiter, is it not?
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
“Well now,” said the waiter, in a tone of confidence, “what would you like for dinner? Young gentlemen likes poultry in general: have a fowl!”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
I explained to the lady how it was, who than rang a bell, and called out, William! show the coffee-room! upon which a waiter came running out of a kitchen on the opposite side of the yard to show it, and seemed a good deal surprised when he was only to show it to me.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
“Ain't you?” said the waiter.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
When we arrived before day at the inn where the mail stopped, which was not the inn where my friend the waiter lived, I was shown up to a nice little bedroom, with DOLPHIN painted on the door.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
The waiter certainly got most.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
"Highballs?" asked the head waiter.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
Another pause. A waiter knocked and came in with crushed mint and ice but the silence was unbroken by his "Thank you" and the soft closing of the door. This tremendous detail was to be cleared up at last.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"Filled with faces dead and gone. Filled with friends gone now forever. I can't forget so long as I live the night they shot Rosy Rosenthal there. It was six of us at the table and Rosy had eat and drunk a lot all evening. When it was almost morning the waiter came up to him with a funny look and says somebody wants to speak to him outside. 'All right,' says Rosy and begins to get up and I pulled him down in his chair.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)