单词 | gallery |
释义 | galleryWord family adjectivegalleriednoungalleryitegallery , Visual, Gas, coal, oil, Earth sciences Painting and drawinggal·le·ry /ˈɡæləri/ ●●○ W3 noun (plural galleries) [countableC] 1 a) AVPa large building where people can see famous pieces of art 美术馆 an exhibition of African art at the Hayward Gallery 海沃德美术馆的非洲艺术展览 b) AVSHOP/STOREa small privately owned shop or studio where you can see and buy pieces of art 〔陈列并出售艺术品的私人拥有的〕画廊 2 a) TBBAPan upper floor or balcony built on an inner wall of a hall, theatre, or church, from which people can watch a performance, discussion etc 〔大厅、剧场或教堂里的〕楼座,楼上旁听席 the public gallery in Congress 国会的公共旁听席 in the gallery We could only afford seats up in the gallery. 我们只买得起楼座里的位子。 b) the galleryAP the people sitting in a gallery 楼座观众 3. play to the gallery LIKE somebody OR somethingto do or say something just because you think it will please people and make you popular 哗众取宠,讨好众人 4. TPGHEa level passage under the ground in a mine or cave 〔矿坑或洞穴里的〕水平巷道[坑道] → press gallery, shooting galleryn COLLOCATIONS ADJECTIVES/NOUN + gallery an art gallery a guide to the city's museums and art galleries a picture/portrait gallery The picture gallery is full of treasures. a private gallery (=owned by a private person) The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States. the national gallery (=owned by the country) verbsEdinburgh has three national galleries. visit/go to a gallery The children visited the gallery on a school trip. a painting hangs in a gallery Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada. a gallery is showing/exhibiting something The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works. exhibit something in/at a gallery gallery + NOUNIt was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery. gallery space (=area for displaying art ) She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology. Examples from the Corpus gallery• Heroes of change, locally and internationally, will be honored in a gallery of photography, artwork, paintings and sculpture.• He owns and operates an art gallery in downtown Phoenix that shows only his own work.• One of the rooms has been made into a small modern art gallery.• They asked if I would like to be gallery secretary.• a craft gallery downtown• There were four galleries here, of which two remain.• Our steps echo over the marble floors, through the cavernous rooms and long galleries.• We spent the afternoon looking at paintings in the National Gallery.• The museum's new gallery will be named after the Andersons.• the National Portrait Gallery in Washington• the public gallery in Congress• Burglars broke into the gallery shortly after the Erte was hung.• Dale is showing some of his work in one of the galleries downtown.• It's a kind of work encountered with more and more frequency in New York galleries these days. (1400-1500) Medieval Latin galeria, perhaps from galilaea “small room for praying in inside a church”, probably from Galilaea “Galilee”, area in Palestine where Christ traveled and taught |
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