| 释义 |
house HOMEhaJsn [C]pl houses 9haWYzIza building which people, usually one family, live in房屋，住宅a detached/semi-detached house独立式/半独立式住宅to buy/rent/let a house买/租/出借房屋house prices房价She lives in a little house (Br and Aus) in/(Am) on Cross Street.她住在十字街的一座小屋内。A house can also be a building where animals are kept.动物的笼舍，穴the monkey/snake/lion house at the zoo动物园的猴舍/蛇穴/狮笼a hen house鸡舍A house can also be a building or part of a building which is used for a special purpose.用作特殊目的的建筑物the Sydney Opera House悉尼歌剧院Broadcasting House广播台You can also use house to mean all the people living in a house.家，家庭Try not to wake the whole house when you come in!你进来的时候不要吵醒全家!(infml) It's a simple problem --there's no need to go all round the houses (= use a long and indirect method) to find a solution.这是个简单的问题----没必要绕圈子来解决。You should set/put your own house in order (= solve your own problems) before giving me advice!给我提意见之前，你应该先管好自己。If you are (kept/put/placed) under house arrest, you are legally forced to stay in your house as if it were a prison.软禁The opposition leader has just been put under house arrest.反对党领导人刚被软禁。If a doctor or other health worker makes a house call, they come to your home, usually to give some form of treatment.上门看病，出诊If you go house-hunting, you look for a house to live in.找房子I'm going house-hunting today.我今天去找房子。A house husband is a man who stays at home and cleans the house, takes care of the children, etc. while his wife goes out to work.操持家务的丈夫A house martin is a small bird that makes its nest under the edge of the roof of a house.燕子A house of cards is a structure built with playing cards, which can easily fall down.纸牌搭的房子The regime collapsed like a house of cards.政权如同纸牌搭的房子般崩溃了。(Am) A house of correction is a building where people who have committed crimes that are not serious are sent to improve their behaviour.教养所，感化院(esp. literary or fml) A house of God is a church.教堂If you say you wouldn't give something house-room, you mean that you don't want it in your home.留存某物I wouldn't even give that old piano house-room!我甚至不会要那架旧钢琴!If you house-sit, or are a house-sitter, you stay in someone's house while they are away in order to keep it safe.代为照看房屋，代为照看房屋的人A house sparrow is a common small grey and brown bird.麻雀If you do something house-to-house (also door-to-door), you go to every house in a particular area or road.挨家挨户的to do a house-to-house collection/survey挨家挨户的收集/调查to make house-to-house enquiries做挨家挨户的调查(esp. Br and Aus) If a pet, esp. a dog, is house-trained (Am usually housebroken), it has been taught to go outside to urinate and excrete the contents of its bowels.宠物受训练后在屋外便溺的[FARMHOUSE, ROADHOUSE Shopping goods Accommodation]
|