Saloon
[sə'luːn] or [sə'lun]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.
(n.) Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.
校對:诺艾尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Spacious room, reception room.
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解釋/意思:
n. a spacious and elegant hall or apartment for the reception of company for works of art &c.: a main cabin: a drawing-room car on a railroad: a liquor-shop.—ns. Saloon′ist Saloon′-keep′er one who retails liquor.
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例句/造句/用法:
- Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- I entered one of the palaces, and opened the door of a magnificent saloon. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benchesdesks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- What were you doing, sir, up in that billiard saloon? 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- But finally Jack found an ice-cream saloon, and that closed investigations for that evening. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Fortunately there was another entrance to the drawing-room than that through the saloon where they were all seated at dinner. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
- On reaching the house, they were shown through the hall into the saloon, whose northern aspect rendered it delightful for summer. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- The embarrassment from the liquor question which Woodrow Wilson feared does not arise because teetotaler and drunkard both become intoxicated when they discuss the saloon. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- More than this, they offer to the poor man an effective substitute for the saloon. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- No, I was glad that you were not in the saloon, because I hope you never go to such places. 路易莎·梅·奧爾科特. 小婦人.
- When Darcy returned to the saloon, Miss Bingley could not help repeating to him some part of what she had been saying to his sister. 簡·奧斯丁. 傲慢與偏見.
- For it was indeed that most respectable saloon, in which Prude and I were making an exhibition of our pretty persons, owing to the merest ignorance. 哈裡特·威爾遜. 哈裡特·威爾遜回忆录.
- The weather was very hot, it had been many a day since Jack had seen ice-cream, and so it was useless to talk of leaving the saloon till it shut up. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
- Under the spell of it men try to stop drunkenness by closing the saloons; when poolrooms shock them they call a policeman; if Haywood becomes annoying, they procure an injunction. 沃爾特·李普曼. 政治序論.
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