waiter是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为n. 侍者， 服务员，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Rounding his mouth and both his eyes, as he stepped backward from the table, the waiter shifted his napkin from his right arm to his left, dropped into a comfortable atti-tude, and stood surveying the guest while he ate and drank, as from an observatory or watchtower.
-- In a very few minutes the waiter came in to announce that Miss Manette had arrived from London, and would be happy to see the gentleman from Tellson's.
-- The gentleman from Tellson's had nothing left for it but to empty his glass with an air of stolid desperation, settle his odd little flaxen wig at the ears, and follow the waiter to Miss Manette's apartment.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Ah, here it is," he said, seeing a waiter with a tray.
-- Catching the sound of footsteps coming from the other side of the entry towards the staircase, the head waiter turned round, and seeing the Russian count, who had taken their best rooms, he took his hands out of his pockets deferentially, and with a bow informed him that a courier had been, and that the business about the palazzo had been arranged.
-- This hotel had already reached that stage, and the soldier in a filthy uniform smoking in the entry, supposed to stand for a hall-porter, and the cast-iron, slippery, dark, and disagreeable staircase, and the free and easy waiter in a filthy frock coat, and the common dining room with a dusty bouquet of wax flowers adorning the table, and filth, dust, and disorder everywhere, and at the same time the sort of modern up-to-date self-complacent railway uneasiness of this hotel, aroused a most painful feeling in Levin after their fresh young life, especially because the impression of falsity made by the hotel was so out of keeping with what awaited them.
-- The waiter who was busy with a party of engineers dining in the dining hall, came several times with an irate countenance in answer to her summons, and could not avoid carrying out her orders, as she gave them with such gracious insistence that there was no evading her.
-- The long white ridge of his spine, with the huge, prominent shoulder blades and jutting ribs and vertebrae, was bare, and Marya Nikolaevna and the waiter were struggling with the sleeve of the night shirt, and could not get the long, limp arm into it.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- A week before examinations, when he was trying to spend twenty-four hours a day in making love to her, twenty-four in grinding for examinations, and twenty-four in the bacteriological laboratory, he promised Clif that he would spend that summer vacation with him, working as a waiter in a Canadian hotel.
-- While he wondered what "Puree St. Germain" could be, and the waiter hideously stood watching behind his shoulder, Madeline fell to.
-- He mixed Pilsener, whisky, black coffee, and a liquid which the waiter asserted to be absinthe.
-- He denounced Sondelius as an aristocrat, he denounced Martin for his ignorance of economics, he denounced the waiter concerning the brandy; Sondelius and Martin and the waiter answered with vigor; and the conversation became admirable.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《大卫科波菲尔》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 68upon which a waiter came running out of a kitchen on the oppositeside of the yard to show it, and seemed a good deal surprisedwhen he was only to show it to me.
-- I felt it was takinga liberty to sit down, with my cap in my hand, on the corner of thechair nearest the door; and when the waiter laid a cloth on purposefor me, and put a set of casters on it, I think I must have turned redall over with modesty.
-- The waiter certainly got most.
-- If I didn't support a agedpairint, and a lovely sister,'here the waiter was greatly agitated- 'Iwouldn't take a farthing.
-- Especially One Happy AfternoonWHEN we arrived before day at the inn where the mail stopped,which was not the inn where my friend the waiter lived, I wasshown up to a nice little bedroom, with DOLPHIN painted on thedoor.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《远大前程》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- That, rather late in the evening Mr. Wopsle gave us Collins's ode, and threw his bloodstained sword in thunder down, with such effect, that a waiter came in and said, "The Commercials underneath sent up their compliments, and it wasn't the Tumblers' Arms."
-- This again was heightened by a certain gypsy character that set the banquet off; for while the table was, as Mr. Pumblechook might have said, the lap of luxury,--being entirely furnished forth from the coffee-house,--the circumjacent region of sitting-room was of a comparatively pastureless and shifty character; imposing on the waiter the wandering habits of putting the covers on the floor (where he fell over them), the melted butter in the arm-chair, the bread on the bookshelves, the cheese in the coal-scuttle, and the boiled fowl into my bed in the next room,--where I found much of its parsley and butter in a state of congelation when I retired for the night.
-- All this made the feast delightful, and when the waiter was not there to watch me, my pleasure was without alloy.
-- The coffee-room at the Blue Boar was empty, and I had not only ordered my dinner there, but had sat down to it, before the waiter knew me.
-- The waiter (it was he who had brought up the Great Remonstrance from the Commercials, on the day when I was bound) appeared surprised, and took the earliest opportunity of putting a dirty old copy of a local newspaper so directly in my way, that I took it up and read this paragraph:--Our readers will learn, not altogether without interest, in reference to the recent romantic rise in fortune of a young artificer in iron of this neighborhood (what a theme, by the way, for the magic pen of our as yet not universally acknowledged townsman TOOBY, the poet of our columns!)
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《艰难时世》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- 'He had another odd dream of being taken by a waiter through a mist, which, after giving him some trouble and difficulty, resolved itself into the main street, in which he stood alone.
-- 'It wouldn't be bad,' he yawned at one time, 'to give the waiter five shillings, and throw him.'
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