单词 | audience room |
释义 | > as lemmasaudience room a. In sense 3, as audience chair, audience room, audience speech, etc. ΚΠ 1637 W. Crowne True Relation Trav. T. Howard 31 To the Audience-roome..and thorow other faire chambers. 1659 W. Montagu Shepheard's Paradise iii. 71 The Queen Sir, is going to the audience-seat, and tis time for you to move that way. 1688 P. Pett Happy Future State of Eng. Pref. sig. H*v A Popish Ambassador sent to Queen Elizabeth began his Audience Speech. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. xciv. 226 His audience chair is under a canopy, over which is the emperor's picture. a1799 J. Meikle Solitude Sweetened (1803) lii. 118 This is the time that God will talk with men in a special manner;—the audience-hour of the great King. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. xv. 398 The court before the audience-hall. 1883 ‘M. Twain’ Life on Mississippi ii. 39 The chief's house contained an audience room forty feet square. 1899 Daily News 20 July 6/4 On Sunday all are at liberty to call and see the King, even without the formality of an audience paper to fix an appointment. 1911 E. Wherry Red Lantern i. 38 This..had once been the audience court of a great mandarin. 1922 H. M. Rockey & H. B. Hunting Wonderland of India ii. 22 The ruins of the fort, including the great public audience hall where every morning Akbar held court, may still be seen. 2003 J. C. Martin Push not River 449 The king sat on his audience chair under its elaborate canopy. < as lemmas |
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