apartment

英 [?'pɑ?tm(?)nt] 美[?'pɑrtm?nt]
  • n. 公寓;房間

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詞態(tài)變化


復(fù)數(shù):?apartments;

中文詞源


apartment 公寓,套間

apart,分開(kāi),-ment,名詞后綴。

英文詞源


apartment (n.)
1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from French appartement (16c.), from Italian appartimento, literally "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" (see ad-) + parte "side, place," from Latin partem (see part (n.)). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.

雙語(yǔ)例句


1. She went directly to Simon's apartment and knocked on the door.
她直奔西蒙的房間,敲了敲門(mén)。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

2. Gerome tried to talk her into taking an apartment in Paris.
杰羅姆試圖說(shuō)服她在巴黎買(mǎi)一套公寓。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

3. Stevens wrote him a note asking him to come to his apartment.
史蒂文斯給他寫(xiě)了張便條,請(qǐng)他去自己的公寓。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

4. The high and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960s are crumbling.
20世紀(jì)60年代建造的高低不一的公寓樓群正在逐漸破損坍塌。

來(lái)自柯林斯例句

5. It would never do to have Henry there in her apartment.
亨利呆在她的公寓里怎么也不合適。

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