barracks
/ˈbærəks/plural noun
often treated as sing.
1- a large building or group of buildings used to house soldiers兵营, 营房：
the troops were ordered back to barracks.
部队被撤回了兵营。
1.1
barrack
a large, ugly building外观简陋的大房子：that great barrack of a house.
那幢丑陋的大房子。
词源
late 17th cent.: barrack from French baraque, from Italian baracca or Spanish barraca 'soldier's tent'， of unknown origin.