Basement
['beɪsm(ə)nt] or ['besmənt]
解释:
(noun.) the lowermost portion of a structure partly or wholly below ground level; often used for storage.
(noun.) the ground floor facade or interior in Renaissance architecture.
海伦娜编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) The outer wall of the ground story of a building, or of a part of that story, when treated as a distinct substructure. ( See Base, n., 3 (a).) Hence: The rooms of a ground floor, collectively.
编辑:莉齐
同义词及近义词：
n. Ground-floor, lowest story.
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娱乐性解释：
To dream that you are in a basement, foretells that you will see prosperous opportunities abating, and with them, pleasure will dwindle into trouble and care. See Cellar.
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例句:
- The _hypocaust_ was a hot-air furnace built in the basement or cellar of the house and from which the heat was conducted by flues to the bath rooms and other apartments. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- Being built on the hillside, its basement opens into the rear yard. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- The passage was a long one, and seemed to pervade the whole square basement of the Manor House. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- He then led the way inside, and went over the whole building from basement to attic. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- The field thus sown on the basement story, I ran lightly upstairs to scatter my mercies next over the drawing-room floor. 威尔基·柯林斯. 月亮宝石.
- The necessary steam boilers were accommodated in the basement, while the second floor was occupied by six generators of 125 horse-power each, nicknamed Jumbos. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- In the basement he had an office. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Watson, who was at the basement end of the wire, heard the disc say, Mr. Watson, come here, I want you. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- Giving him private directions to seek the society of Mrs. Crupp, and to remove the 'young gal' to the basement also, I abandoned myself to enjoyment. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- He set up a line of his own in his father’s basement at Port Huron, making his batteries of bottles, old stovepipe wire, nails and zinc that he could pick up for a trifle. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
- In the evening I went over to an all-night lunch-house in Printing House Square in a basement--Oliver's. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- It was long after seven o'clock, and the light and odours proceeding from the basement made it manifest that the boarding-house dinner had begun. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- The greatest width is only 30 feet at basement; its greatest height from foundation to summit no less than 260 feet, or 50 feet higher than the summit of the Monument. 弗雷德里克·科利尔·贝克维尔. 伟大的事实.
- This bucket fits closely in a water-tight upright tube, or stand-pipe, about two feet in diameter, extending from the basement to the upper story. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- We had a telephone line running across the roofs to the basement of the building. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
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