greasy spoon
音标发音
- 英式音标 [ˌɡriː.si ˈspuːn]
- 美式音标 [ˌɡriː.si ˈspuːn]
- 英式发音
- 美式发音
基本解释
- 低级小饭馆；经济小吃店
英汉例句
- Last week I went to a greasy spoon with a friend and this Sunday I've got to go a potluck.
上个周末我和一个朋友去一家小饭馆吃饭，这个星期天我得做一个菜去参加一个聚会。
edu.sina.com.cn - I’ve been so busy lately. Last week I went to a greasy spoon with a friend and this Sunday I’ve got to go a potluck.
这句话的意思是:“我最近可忙了。上个周末我和一个朋友去一家小饭馆吃饭,这个星期天我得做一个菜去参加一个聚会。” - People get creative in the strangest of places - be it the garden shed, or your local greasy spoon, find somewhere convenient and comfortable where you can concentrate.
人们常常在一些奇怪的地方找到灵感——在花园小屋，或者你当地的小饭馆，总之找到你觉得方便、舒适并且可集中注意力的地方。 - As he ate with his fellow-workers in the greasy spoon, enjoying their competitive talk of growing leeks and selling scrap, he realised that under the industrial overalls lurked canny capitalist peasants.
ECONOMIST: Robert Oakeshott - Although not everybody's cup of tea (on a bad day, the service can be as churlish as any greasy-spoon in Barnsley, circa 1972), its products and style are said to be enjoyed by Anglophile masochists such as Quentin Tarantino.
ECONOMIST: A British import wins surprising favour
双语例句
权威例句
英英字典
- a small, cheap restaurant, especially one that sells a lot of fried food
- A greasy spoon is a small, cheap, unattractive caf that serves mostly fried food.