anteroom

英 [ˈæntiruːm]

美 [ˈæntiruːm]

n.  (尤指重要公共建筑的)前厅，接待室

复数：anterooms　

机械

BNC.35462 / COCA.23988

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指重要公共建筑的）前厅，接待室
  a room where people can wait before entering a larger room, especially in an important public building

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 前厅;休息室;接待室
  Ananteroomis a small room leading into a larger room.
  1. He had been patiently waiting in the anteroom for an hour.
     他在前厅耐心地等了一个小时。

英英释义

noun

• a large entrance or reception room or area
  Synonym:antechamberentrance hallhallfoyerlobbyvestibule

双语例句

• On either side of the lounge were emergency rooms with cots, an anteroom, and a toilet room.
  两边的休息室是急诊室的床，一个接待室，一个厕所室。
• In an anteroom he hastily opened his briefcase.
  在休息室里，他迅速地打开皮包。
• Leaving the elevator on the tenth floor, they stepped into the windowless anteroom.
  走出十楼的电梯间，他们走进了那间没窗子的接待室。
• Hofer came in from the anteroom carrying several files and a couple of rolled-up maps under his arm.
  霍弗抱着几摞案卷，挟着两卷地图从接待室走了进来。
• But if you believe, as I wrote last month, that radical innovations in management theory are increasingly infrequent, the anteroom of uncrowned visionaries would empty quickly.
  但如果你像我上月所写的那样，认为管理理论的革命性创新日益罕见，那么可供评选的思想家很快就会所剩无几。
• The ministers waited for their meeting in the cabinet anteroom.
  部长们在内阁的前厅等着开会。
• Which one of us has not sat in some anteroom and watched the inscrutable panels of a door that was full of meaning?
  我们中谁没有在某个接待室里做过，眼睛盯着那扇含有各种各样可能性的莫测高深的门板？
• A lobby or an anteroom, as of a theater or hotel
  休息室，候客室如戏院或旅馆的休息室或接待室
• They were waiting in an anteroom for interrogation.
  他们在接待室等候讯问。
• But on hearing that Captain Henry had reappeared he jumped up and went out to the anteroom.
  可是一听说亨利上校又来了，他顿时跳起身，走进了会客室。