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- a place, especially a civilian's house, where soldiers are lodged temporarily士兵临时宿营地（尤指民房）。
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- informal a place to stop or stay〈非正式〉停留（或小住）的地方：
the young people's stay at each of their billets was short.
那些年轻人在各自停留的地方待的时间不长。
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billeted, billeting
with obj. and adverbial of place（常作be billeted）lodge (soldiers) in a particular place, especially a civilian's house给（军人）安排宿营地（尤指安排在民居里）：he didn't belong to the regiment billeted at the Hall.
他不属于安排在大厅里宿营的那个团。
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- assign temporary accommodation to给…安排临时住处：
the American team was billeted at Uxbridge.
美国队被安排住在阿克斯布里奇。
词源
late Middle English (originally denoting a short written document)： from Anglo-Norman French billette, diminutive of bille （see BILL1 ）. The verb is recorded in the late 16th cent., and the noun sense 'a written order requiring a householder to lodge the bearer, usually a soldier', from the mid 17th cent.; hence the current meaning.
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- a thick piece of wood厚木料, 粗木材。
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- a small bar of metal for further processing金属坯料, 短金属条。
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- Architecture each of a series of short cylindrical pieces inserted at intervals in Norman decorative mouldings【建筑】错齿式粉刷线脚。
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- Heraldry a rectangle placed vertically as a charge【纹章】直立长方形图形。
词源
late Middle English: from Old French billette and billot, diminutives of bille 'tree trunk', from medieval Latin billa, billus 'branch, trunk', probably of Celtic origin.