Parlor
['pɑrlɚ]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A room for business or social conversation, for the reception of guests, etc.
(n.) The apartment in a monastery or nunnery where the inmates are permitted to meet and converse with each other, or with visitors and friends from without.
(n.) In large private houses, a sitting room for the family and for familiar guests, -- a room for less formal uses than the drawing-room. Esp., in modern times, the dining room of a house having few apartments, as a London house, where the dining parlor is usually on the ground floor.
(n.) Commonly, in the United States, a drawing-room, or the room where visitors are received and entertained.
校對:路易斯
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Drawing-room.
校對:马蒂
例句/造句/用法:
- The Colonel and the Inspector were awaiting us in the parlor. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- Her empty bed, her idle ball, Will never see her more; No gentle tap, no loving purr Is heard at the parlor door. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- 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. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- Amy, who was handed about like refreshments, returned to the parlor on Father Laurence's arm. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- St. Clare carried her in his arms into the parlor, and laid her on the sofa. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Now you go into the parlor, and I'll send 'em down to you, with which somewhat involved reply Hannah vanished, chuckling ecstatically. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- They were sitting in the little, stuffy parlor when the distant chugging of an approaching automobile caught their attention. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- While this conversation was taking place in the parlor another was going on in St. Clare's library. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- A great mistake, Chettam, interposed Mr. Brooke, going into electrifying your land and that kind of thing, and making a parlor of your cow-house. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I was glad to learn that our piano, our parlor organ, and our melodeon were to be the best instruments of the kind that could be had in the market. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- When they entered the parlor Caleb had thrown down his hat and was seated at his desk. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- I got into the house; ran, all out of breath, to the parlor, where I found Butler. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- Laurie opened the parlor door and popped his head in very quietly. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- He had prepared a collation for me in the Barnwell parlor, and he too ordered his shopman to come out of the gangway as my sacred person passed. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- In the large wainscoted parlor too there were constantly pairs of eyes on the watch, and own relatives eager to be sitters-up. 喬治·艾略特. 米德爾馬契.
- How many departed monks were required to upholster these six parlors? 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Painter, and in his parlors it was shown to a party of gentlemen. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
錄入:斯威尼