Hall
[hɔːl] or [hɔl]
解释:
(noun.) a large building for meetings or entertainment.
(noun.) a large room for gatherings or entertainment; 'lecture hall'; 'pool hall'.
(noun.) a large building used by a college or university for teaching or research; 'halls of learning'.
(noun.) United States astronomer who discovered Phobos and Deimos (the two satellites of Mars) (1829-1907).
(noun.) United States explorer who led three expeditions to the Arctic (1821-1871).
(noun.) United States chemist who developed an economical method of producing aluminum from bauxite (1863-1914).
(noun.) United States child psychologist whose theories of child psychology strongly influenced educational psychology (1844-1924).
(noun.) English writer whose novel about a lesbian relationship was banned in Britain for many years (1883-1943).
杰里米整理--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A building or room of considerable size and stateliness, used for public purposes; as, Westminster Hall, in London.
(n.) The chief room in a castle or manor house, and in early times the only public room, serving as the place of gathering for the lord's family with the retainers and servants, also for cooking and eating. It was often contrasted with the bower, which was the private or sleeping apartment.
(n.) A vestibule, entrance room, etc., in the more elaborated buildings of later times.
(n.) Any corridor or passage in a building.
(n.) A name given to many manor houses because the magistrate's court was held in the hall of his mansion; a chief mansion house.
(n.) A college in an English university (at Oxford, an unendowed college).
(n.) The apartment in which English university students dine in common; hence, the dinner itself; as, hall is at six o'clock.
(n.) Cleared passageway in a crowd; -- formerly an exclamation.
校对:迈拉
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Large room, chamber.[2]. Entry (of a house), entrance.[3]. Manor-house.
埃弗雷特编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Moiety, bisection, dimidiation
ANT:Integrity, entirety, totality, whole
编辑:诺拉
解释:
n. a large room or passage at the entrance of a house: a large chamber for public business—for meetings or for the sale of particular goods: an edifice in which courts of justice are held: a manor-house: the main building of a college and in some cases as at Oxford and Cambridge the specific name of a college itself: an unendowed college: a licensed residence for students: the great room in which the students dine together—hence also the dinner itself: a place for special professional education or for conferring professional degrees or licenses as a Divinity Hall Apothecaries' Hall.—ns. Hall′age toll paid for goods sold in a hall; Hall′-door the front door of a house.—A hall! a hall! a cry at a mask or the like for room for the dance &c.; Bachelor's hall a place free from the restraining presence of a wife; Liberty hall a place where every one can do as he pleases.
手打:莱曼
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a city hall, denotes contentions and threatened law suits. To a young woman this dream is a foreboding of unhappy estrangement from her lover by her failure to keep virtue inviolate.
格雷琴编辑
例句:
- Meantime the whole hall was in a stir; most people rose and remained standing, for a change; some walked about, all talked and laughed. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- Michaelmas term lately over, and the Lord Chancellor sitting in Lincoln's Inn Hall. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Then they moved across, through the hall, to the other front room, that was a little smaller than the firSt. 'This is the study,' said Hermione. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- As for society, he was carried every other day into the hall where the boys dined, and there sociably flogged as a public warning and example. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- I reckoned our coach to be about a square of Westminster-hall, but not altogether so high: however, I cannot be very exact. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- Prepare the Castle-hall for the trial of the sorceress. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Westminster Hall itself is a shady solitude where nightingales might sing, and a tenderer class of suitors than is usually found there, walk. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- No one chanced to be about, and she got down to the hall in quiet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- You are not a servant at the hall, of course. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- You can beat Tammany Hall permanently in one way--by making the government of a city as human, as kindly, as jolly as Tammany Hall. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- If a gas jet is turned on and not lighted, an odor of gas soon becomes perceptible, not only throughout the room, but in adjacent halls and even in distant rooms. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
- A little population occupied its halls. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- Its grandeur-- its treasure of paintings, its magnificent halls were objects soothing and even exhilarating. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Everybody knows that when you close the dance halls you fill the parks. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- She sent me under guard to this room just before the fighting began within the temple halls. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- They meet the evils of dance halls by barricading them; they go forth to battle against vice by raiding brothels and fining prostitutes. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
- Thou hast earned one in the halls of Rotherwood, noble knight. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The primitive custom of both Aryans and Mongols of holding great feasts in halls still held good, and there was much hard drinking. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- Halls of slavery, Ma, is mere stuff and nonsense,' returned the unmoved Irrepressible. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
校对:拉里