English Dictionary

à la carte

IPA（発音記号）

/ˌæ.ləˈkɑːt/

形容詞

比較不可 広義

(food and drink) Allowing selection from a fixed list of individually priced options shown on the menu. / (by extension) Selective; only choosing what one likes or desires.

日本語の意味

個別の価格が設定された項目から選ぶ方式（メニューに記載された各品目を個別に注文する形式）。 / 拡張的意味として、好みのものを選んで利用する、または選択的なことを指す。

We chose the à la carte menu so each dish could be ordered and priced separately.

私たちはそれぞれ別料金で注文できる単品メニューを選びました。

意味（1）

(food and drink) Allowing selection from a fixed list of individually priced options shown on the menu.

The restaurant had a huge à la carte menu and four specials that day.

意味（2）

(by extension) Selective; only choosing what one likes or desires.

When schizophrenia and autism, for example, turned out to be largely heritable, we no longer blamed these disorders on cold or inept mothers. But, for such freighted traits as intelligence, liberals remained understandably anxious and continued to insist that differences—not just on a group level but on an individual one—were merely artifacts of an unequal environment. Conservatives pointed out that an à-la-carte approach to scientific findings was intellectually incoherent.