英语词汇“two pair room”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Used with a preceding cardinal (or occasionally ordinal) numeral to denote a window or (later usually) room located the stated number of flights of stairs above ground level (frequently qualified by front or back to indicate position within a building). Frequently attributive, as two pair (of stairs) room, etc. Now rare.

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1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 15 She consented to be his, and to make good her Word, ventured her Life, by descending from a two Pair of Stairs Window.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. vi. 140 That Nightingale should procure him either the Ground Floor, or the two Pair of Stairs.

1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 245 Working for my bread in a two pair of stairs room.

1830 Times 13 July in Times (1930) 12 July 9/2 Some of the ‘snatchers’..attempted to gain an entrance at the two-pair of stairs window.

1836 C. Dickens Let. ?24 Aug. (1965) I. 170 His notion of the Bedroom is rather more derived,..from his own fourth pair back.

1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 11 Mr. Pecksniff..turned him loose in a spacious room on the two-pair front.

1853 C. M. Smith Curiosities London Life 360 The little two-pair back-room where we now sit.

1909 Times 8 May 10/3 Inquiry showed that he was a lawyer, rented a two pair back in the Temple, and had no other connexion with land.

1959 Dáil Éireann: Parl. Deb. 2 June 738/2 The answer to why an individual, or a family, in a two-pair back in a street like Dominick Street, is destitute while [etc.].

1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic i. 31 In eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England..the ‘two-pair back’ was the room at the rear, two flights up; and a ‘three-pair back’..was directly below the servants' quarters.

单词	two pair room
释义	> as lemmas two pair (of stairs) room b. Used with a preceding cardinal (or occasionally ordinal) numeral to denote a window or (later usually) room located the stated number of flights of stairs above ground level (frequently qualified by front or back to indicate position within a building). Frequently attributive, as two pair (of stairs) room, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1745 E. Haywood Female Spectator I. 15 She consented to be his, and to make good her Word, ventured her Life, by descending from a two Pair of Stairs Window. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. vi. 140 That Nightingale should procure him either the Ground Floor, or the two Pair of Stairs. View more context for this quotation 1761 F. Sheridan Mem. Miss Sidney Bidulph II. 245 Working for my bread in a two pair of stairs room. 1830 Times 13 July in Times (1930) 12 July 9/2 Some of the ‘snatchers’..attempted to gain an entrance at the two-pair of stairs window. 1836 C. Dickens Let. ?24 Aug. (1965) I. 170 His notion of the Bedroom is rather more derived,..from his own fourth pair back. 1843 C. Dickens Martin Chuzzlewit (1844) ii. 11 Mr. Pecksniff..turned him loose in a spacious room on the two-pair front. 1853 C. M. Smith Curiosities London Life 360 The little two-pair back-room where we now sit. 1909 Times 8 May 10/3 Inquiry showed that he was a lawyer, rented a two pair back in the Temple, and had no other connexion with land. 1959 Dáil Éireann: Parl. Deb. 2 June 738/2 The answer to why an individual, or a family, in a two-pair back in a street like Dominick Street, is destitute while [etc.]. 1960 R. Davies Voice from Attic i. 31 In eighteenth-and nineteenth-century England..the ‘two-pair back’ was the room at the rear, two flights up; and a ‘three-pair back’..was directly below the servants' quarters. extracted from pairn.¹ < as lemmas
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