apartment
英 [?'pɑ?tm(?)nt]
美 [?'pɑrtm?nt]
中文詞源
apartment 公寓，套間apart,分開，-ment,名詞后綴。
英文詞源
- apartment (n.)
- 1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from French appartement (16c.), from Italian appartimento, literally "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" (see ad-) + parte "side, place," from Latin partem (see part (n.)). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.
雙語例句
- 1. She went directly to Simon's apartment and knocked on the door.
- 她直奔西蒙的房間，敲了敲門。
來自柯林斯例句
- 2. Gerome tried to talk her into taking an apartment in Paris.
- 杰羅姆試圖說服她在巴黎買一套公寓。
來自柯林斯例句
- 3. Stevens wrote him a note asking him to come to his apartment.
- 史蒂文斯給他寫了張便條，請他去自己的公寓。
來自柯林斯例句
- 4. The high and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960s are crumbling.
- 20世紀(jì)60年代建造的高低不一的公寓樓群正在逐漸破損坍塌。
來自柯林斯例句
- 5. It would never do to have Henry there in her apartment.
- 亨利呆在她的公寓里怎么也不合適。
來自柯林斯例句