释义 |
boiler roomˈboiler room noun [countable] - Agents say they met on numerous occasions with Earp in his office in the boiler room.
- I had been alone in the boiler room.
- It was cold because something had gone wrong down in the castle's boiler room.
- The books fell to the basement boiler room, where they were recovered by the thief.
- The school's boiler room was a den of mine.
- There were half a dozen in the boiler room, he discovered, so take three.
- There were in addition downstairs a boiler room with a bed in it, a bathroom and kitchen.
- You put her dress and the necklace in the boiler room.
1a room in a large building where the building’s boiler is2American English informal a room or office where people sell shares or services on the telephone, using unfair and sometimes dishonest methods |