Tenement
['tenəm(ə)nt] or ['tɛnəmənt]
解釋/意思:
(n.) That which is held of another by service; property which one holds of a lord or proprietor in consideration of some military or pecuniary service; fief; fee.
(n.) Any species of permanent property that may be held, so as to create a tenancy, as lands, houses, rents, commons, an office, an advowson, a franchise, a right of common, a peerage, and the like; -- called also free / frank tenements.
(n.) A dwelling house; a building for a habitation; also, an apartment, or suite of rooms, in a building, used by one family; often, a house erected to be rented.
(n.) Fig.: Dwelling; abode; habitation.
整理:罗德尼
同義詞及近義詞：
n. House, dwelling, habitation, domicile.
珍妮特錄入
解釋/意思:
n. anything held or that may be held by a tenant: a dwelling or habitation or part of it used by one family: one of a set of apartments in one building each occupied by a separate family.—adjs. Tenement′al; Tenement′ary.
錄入:费尔普斯
例句/造句/用法:
- Take possession of your tenement, and let me fly from this place. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- Hope and love had quitted that little tenement, for Robert seemed to have deserted its precincts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- It's a six-roomer, exclusive of kitchens, said Mr. Guppy, and in the opinion of my friends, a commodious tenement. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Whither will that spirit--now struggling to quit its material tenement--flit when at length released? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- Behold us now in our frail tenement, hemmed in by hungry, roaring waves, buffeted by winds. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- Their small tenement made a considerable part of it. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- When he returned to his lodgings all the lights in the Sedley tenement were put out. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- The scene now changes to a small, neat tenement, in the outskirts of Montreal; the time, evening. 哈麗葉特·比切·斯托. 湯姆叔叔的小屋.
- The gloom, and must, and dust of the whole tenement, were secret. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- Here, too, in this humble tenement, live care, and distrust, and dismay. 威廉·梅克比斯·薩克雷. 名利場.
- As to the shops and the locality: The street was lined with rather old buildings and poor tenements. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- A great many of the tenements had shop-fronts; but these were fast closed, and mouldering away; only the upper rooms being inhabited. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- In tenements, where there is no yard for the family washing, clothes often appear flapping in mid-air. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- It had, in its day, probably furnished employment to the inhabitants of the surrounding tenements. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- Now, these tumbling tenements contain, by night, a swarm of misery. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
手打:路德维格