apartment
英[ə'pɑːtm(ə)nt]
美[ə'pɑrtmənt]
词态变化
复数: apartments;
中文词源
apartment 公寓，套间apart,分开，-ment,名词后缀。
英文词源
- 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.
双语例句
- 1. She went directly to Simon's apartment and knocked on the door.
- 她直奔西蒙的房间，敲了敲门。
来自柯林斯例句
- 2. Gerome tried to talk her into taking an apartment in Paris.
- 杰罗姆试图说服她在巴黎买一套公寓。
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- 3. Stevens wrote him a note asking him to come to his apartment.
- 史蒂文斯给他写了张便条，请他去自己的公寓。
来自柯林斯例句
- 4. The high and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960s are crumbling.
- 20世纪60年代建造的高低不一的公寓楼群正在逐渐破损坍塌。
来自柯林斯例句
- 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适。
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