Mansion
['mænʃ(ə)n] or ['mænʃən]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
(n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
(n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
(n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
(v. i.) To dwell; to reside.
乔琳整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Dwelling, seat, residence, habitation, dwelling-house, mansion-house.
編輯:梅齐
解釋/意思:
n. a house esp. one of some size: a manor-house: the dwelling of a nobleman or a landholder: (B.) a resting-place.—ns. Man′sion-house a mansion: the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London; Man′sionry (Shak.) a mansion place of residence.
手打:路易
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream that you are in a mansion where there is a haunted chamber, denotes sudden misfortune in the midst of contentment. To dream of being in a mansion, indicates for you wealthy possessions. To see a mansion from distant points, foretells future advancement.
錄入:伦纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- There was a pleased bustle all though the Shelby mansion, that day, in expectation of the arrival of young Mas'r George. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Important interviews would be broken off to get in a visit to some old historical mansion. 赫伯特·喬治·威爾斯. 世界史綱.
- So goes the wintry day outside the Dedlock mansion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Mrs. Bute at the parsonage nightly looked out to see if the sky was red over the elms behind which the Hall stood, and the mansion was on fire. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- What would not your grandmothers have given to be asked to Lady Hester's parties in that now decayed mansion? 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- For a fortnight past no cloth had been destroyed; no outrage on mill or mansion had been committed in the three parishes. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- One day Emmy, with George in her hand and clad in deep sables, went to visit the deserted mansion which she had not entered since she was a girl. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- My people, save the few who are now with me, do but tarry my presence to transport his honoured remains to their last mansion. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There was an apartment at the side of the Boffin mansion, known as Mr Boffin's room. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- The other appointments of the mansion partook of the rude simplicity of the Saxon period, which Cedric piqued himself upon maintaining. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- She had no experience beyond her father's cottage; and the mansion of the lord of the manor was the chiefest type of grandeur she could conceive. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- As George walked down Southampton Row, from Holborn, he laughed as he saw, at the Sedley Mansion, in two different stories two heads on the look-out. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- I am aware, sir, that it would not become me to carry on my little traffic under the windows of your mansion. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- From amid the branches there jutted out the grey gables and high roof-tree of a very old mansion. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- In the drawing-room of which mansion, there presently entered to them the most remarkable girl Mr. James Harthouse had ever seen. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- I should rather say her thoughts were far away from here, with lords and ladies she'll never know, and mansions she'll never see again. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- These mansions are to be had either unfurnished, where, if you have credit with Messrs. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- In the captain's cottage she could suggest mansions she had never seen. 湯瑪斯·哈代. 還鄉.
- Why are we now in the mansions of the rich and great, my friends? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- In--my --Father's--house--are--many--mansions. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- As in all Southern mansions hospitality was rife at the Greenes’, and it happened that one evening a number of gentlemen were gathered there who had fought under the General in the Revolution. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- A rich man there lived alone in one of the immense mansions which were formerly both dwellings and warehouses. 伊莉莎白·蓋斯凱爾. 南方與北方.
編輯:西娅