Before I begin, I want to recognize everyone whose hard work made this celebration possible, including the groundskeepers, ushers, volunteers and crew.

在演讲开始之前，我想对为举办这次盛会努力工作的人们表示肯定，包括场地人员、招待员、志愿者以及全体工作人员。

He loved his part-time job as an usher at the concert hall.

他喜欢在当招待员的兼职工作。

Many years of catering to the kind of people that come into saloons had provided the bartender with an adjustable mind.

由于多年来招待来酒吧的客人，这位招待员练就了一副随机应变的头脑。

" Ask it what? Such as? " said the bartender.

“它什么，比如说？ ”酒吧招待员道。

He addressed his next remark to him, as though deliberately snubbing the bartender.

他接下来的这句话是对着这个人说的，好像故意要冷落招待员似的。

Everyone now glared at the bartender.

此时大家都瞪着酒吧招待员。

He stared straight at the bartender, not exactly unfriendly but on the other hand not actually friendly.

他直盯着招待员，既不失礼貌也不十分友好。

The bartender stared fixedly, and then resumed his light housekeeping.

酒吧招待员目不转睛地盯着他们，然后又接着干酒吧里本来就不多的活儿。

Usher? - What? - Brandy? - Are they celebrities?

招待员？ - 什么？- 白兰地？ - 他们是名人吗？

Rear Admiral Stephen Rochon was the first African-American White House chief usher, and he was in charge of the White House from President George W. Bush to Barack Obama.

Stephen Rochon 海军少将是一位非裔白宫首席招待员，从小布什总统到奥巴马总统，他都掌管着白宫。

As this is the most prominent, and some say the most attractive table of all, and they are the chief getters-up of the fair, it is thought best for them to take this place.

因为这是最显眼的，有人说是所有桌子中最吸引人的一张，而且他们是集市的主要招待员，所以人们认为最好让他们坐下。

" Ten thousand eight hundred and sixty-two, multiply it by ninety-nine, " said the bartender, viciously.

“10,862乘以99。”酒吧招待员不怀好意地说。

" You can't have the whiskey, " said the bartender.

“不能给你威士忌。”酒吧招待员说道。

I arrived at the church shortly before 3 p.m. And one of the ushers asked me if I was a friend of the bride or the groom.

我下午3点前到达教堂，一位招待员我，我是新娘还是新郎的朋友。

Each night one finds himself at a table in the Hot Box and is clasped to Adelaide's cleavage (ushers forewarn him, Sir Nicholas confides).

每天晚上，人们都会发现自己坐在 Hot Box 的一张桌子旁， 紧贴着阿德莱德的乳沟（尼古拉斯爵士向他倾诉，招待员会预先警告他）。

The usher was an honest man, with a university education, but he could not hold any employment on account of his tippling habit.

招待员是一个诚实的人， 受过大学教育， 但由于嗜酒如命， 他无法从事任何工作。

You wanna be an usher like your old man?

你想像你老头子一样当招待员？

Ushers often came to the Treaty Room a few times over the course of an evening to deliver more folders, containing more papers, freshly generated by staffers who were working late in the offices downstairs.

招待员经常在一个晚上来到条约室几次，送来更多的文件夹，里面有更多的文件，这些文件是由在楼下办公室工作到很晚的工作人员新制作的。

As soon as they walk out the door, the White House chief usher and almost 100 staffers will swing into action.

他们一走出大门，白宫首席招待员和近 100 名工作人员就会开始行动。

There was a stir all along the bar, some seeming to side with the bartender, others with the machine group.

吧台一阵骚动，一些人似乎支持招待员，其他人似乎站在机器这一伙一边。