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单词 booth
释义
boothbooth /buːð $ buːθ/ ●○○ noun [countable] Word Origin
WORD ORIGINbooth
Origin:
1100-1200 From a Scandinavian language
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES
  • a phone booth
  • a ticket booth
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
  • But, in the privacy of the polling booth, cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play.
  • C., which seemed to express the feelings of the entire booth.
  • He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.
  • It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths, but all were empty.
  • Mulcahey pushed his way to a small booth in the rear.
  • The election commission has therefore countermanded voting in several seats and ordered a re-poll in more than 1,000 booths.
  • The guy in the ticket booth had snake tattoos all over his arms and glasses held together with toothpicks and tape.
  • They would frequently receive strange glances from those in other booths but she just ignored it.
word sets
WORD SETS
aisle, nounbelfry, nounbiomass, nounbooth, nounbreakwater, nounbridge, nounbridge, verbclapboard, nouncondemn, verbcondo, nounconstructor, nouncourtyard, nouncubicle, nouncupola, noundais, nounderrick, noundes res, noundeveloper, noundevelopment, noundome, noundomed, adjectivedry rot, nounDumpster, noundump truck, nounduplex, nounDutch barn, noundwelling, noundyke, nouneaves, nounelevator, nounescalator, nounestate, nounexit, nounfarmstead, nounfence, nounfirebrick, nounflagged, adjectiveflagstone, nounfortify, verbfoundation stone, nounfountain, nounfreehold, nounglazier, nounglazing, noungrating, noungroin, noungroyne, nounhandrail, nounhousing estate, nounhut, nouninsulation, nounironwork, nounlandscape architect, nounlandscape gardening, nounlevee, nounlisted, adjectivelow-rise, adjectivelychgate, nounmanor, nounmansion, nounmarble, nounmason, nounmasonry, nounminaret, nounmulti-storey, adjectivemulti-storey, nounopen-plan, adjectivepanel, nounpanelled, adjectivepantile, nounpillar, nounplatform, nounportal, nounportcullis, nounprecast, adjectiveprefab, nounprefabricated, adjectivepre-stressed, adjectivepublic works, nounQuonset hut, nounrailing, nounredecorate, verbredevelop, verbrevolving door, nounriser, nounrising damp, nounrivet, nounrood screen, nounroof, nounroom, nounroughcast, nounrow house, nounsalon, nounsash window, nounseawall, nounshelter, nounstanchion, nounstorey, nounstrut, nounsubside, verbsubsidence, nounsubstructure, nounsuperstructure, nounsurvey, nounsurvey, verbsurveyor, nounswing bridge, nountar, nountar, verbtower, nountriplex, nounurban renewal, nounwatercourse, nounwicket gate, nounwindbreak, nounwindmill, nounyard, noun
Collocations
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
(=a place where you can buy tickets)· There was a long queue at the ticket office.
COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE
· He's just warning voters of the political banana skins on route to the polling booths.· Pupils will cast their ballot papers in mock polling booths before school and at morning break on the day.· We can not expect voters to leave their conscience behind them when they go to the polling booth.· On Feb. 25 almost 400,000 soldiers and police were deployed across the country to guard polling booths.· He even brought one of the polling booths for us to examine.· All those voters who shamefacedly backed the Tories in the secrecy of the polling booth are probably feeling vindicated.
NOUN
· As soon as he could, he found a phone booth.· He was standing in an exposed phone booth.· You're a millionaire call while in a phone booth in Creeksville-in-the-Boondocks.· It took him a few minutes to find a public phone booth.· In a phone booth, Celine gives Robert lessons in sounding demanding and ruthless in his ransom calls to Naville.· The elevator is a perforated metal box no larger than a phone booth.· He left the phone booth and went quickly out to the street.
· I had to take my picture in one of them photo booths.· A man sits on the floor, his back against a photo booth, with a plastic bag beside him.· She bought six first-class stamps, took a pound coin from her purse and went into the automatic photo booth.· I told him all about Marie and showed him the pictures we took in that photo booth.
· She came back from the telephone booth quickly, looking distracted.· It was Bethany in a telephone booth.· Can't even dodge into a telephone booth and warn Gilman - if I could reach him.· He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.· Most of the bombs were mailed to bank branches or bank employees, but some were placed in telephone booths.· Message-sending and letter-writing went on, and they were always running up to the telephone booths at the station.· You know, I just called you from a telephone booth.
· A ticket booth was guarded by two of these figures dressed as policemen.· The guy in the ticket booth had snake tattoos all over his arms and glasses held together with toothpicks and tape.· The shutters were firmly closed at the ticket booth, the waxwork policemen staring with sightless eyes at passers-by.· It will take at least half an hour to park your car and get to the ticket booths.· His second came at the ticket booth, where there was no-one for him to show his first-class ticket to.· By the blind ticket booth a sign spoke four languages.· It was no more than a ticket booth.
VERB
· So the spooky prospect of Prime Minister Hague is just too science fiction to scare the Labour herd into the polling booths.
· I got a cup of tea and sat down in a booth at the back.· I snagged a glass of wine at the bar and then I sat in the back booth and surveyed the place.· He sat in a booth in the far corner, ordered a stein of Rhine beer and waited.· He sat in the rear booth, strangely anxious.
· In many places, residents said, they forced their way into voting booths and stuffed boxes with ballots.· Q: But will the issues be enough to get blacks to the voting booth in 1996; contrasted with Rev.· There were no voting booths, no polling places, no campaign workers greeting neighbors outside the local high school.· Yet it was precisely conservatives such as the Mormons who had blazed paths to the voting booths fifty years before.· In every state that I am aware of, help is available for those people in the voting booth, if requested.· Politics does not occur only in voting booths or demonstrations.
1a small partly enclosed place where one person can do something privately, such as use the telephone or vote:  a voting booth2a small partly enclosed structure where you can buy things, play games, or get information, usually at a market or a fair:  a crafts booth3a partly enclosed place in a restaurant, with a table between two long seats
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