foyer

英 [ˈfɔɪeɪ]

美 [ˈfɔɪər]

n.  (剧院或旅馆的)门厅，休息厅; (私宅或公寓的)前厅，门厅

复数：foyers　

IELTSGRETEM8

Collins.1 / BNC.10065 / COCA.9597

牛津词典

noun

• （剧院或旅馆的）门厅，休息厅
  a large open space inside the entrance of a theatre or hotel where people can meet or wait
• （私宅或公寓的）前厅，门厅
  an entrance hall in a private house or flat/apartment

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 门厅;大厅;休息室
  Thefoyeris the large area where people meet or wait just inside the main doors of a building such as a theatre, cinema, or hotel.
  1. I went and waited in the foyer.
     我进去在大厅里等着。

英英释义

noun

• a large entrance or reception room or area
  Synonym:anteroomantechamberentrance hallhalllobbyvestibule

双语例句

• When they entertain, they set the table up in the apartment's wide limestone foyer.
  当他们招待客人时，会把桌子支起来，摆在公寓宽敞的石灰岩门厅中。
• The hotel foyer was swamped by reporters and photographers.
  饭店的门厅被记者和摄影师围得水泄不通。
• Unperturbed, she continued surveying the hotel foyer.
  她不动声色地继续观察着那饭店的门厅。
• To get to the cinema foyer, you have to push the wheelchair up the ramp.
  要去电影院的门厅，你得把轮椅推站斜坡。
• We were standing next to a cardboard cutout of the actor in the cinema foyer.
  我们正站在电影院门厅一位男演员的纸板像旁边。
• They arranged to meet in the foyer ten minutes before the play started.
  他们安排在戏剧开演前十分钟在门厅会面。
• I'll see you downstairs in the foyer in half an hour.
  半小时后我们在楼下门厅见。
• A gaggle of journalists sit in a hotel foyer waiting impatiently.
  一群乱哄哄的记者坐在酒店大堂里焦急地等待着。
• We sat side by side, then went to the foyer.
  我们肩并肩地坐着，然后去了休息室。
• I flung open the foyer doors and went out into the street.
  我推开了门厅的大门，冲到了街上。