| 单词 | embassy |
| 释义 | embassy (once / 345 pages) n An ambassador, a diplomat who represents her own country in a foreign country, lives and works in an embassy. Travelers sometimes visit their home country's embassy for help with their travel documents or other issues. If you've ever visited Washington, DC, you may have seen the French embassy or the Indian embassy. These buildings often resemble homes, which makes sense because ambassadors usually live in them. The word embassy first meant "job or position of the ambassador," and comes from the Old French ambasse, with its Latin root of ambactus, or "servant." WORD FAMILYembassy: embassies USAGE EXAMPLESLast week, he tweeted that Mr. Putin was “very smart!” for not responding in kind to Mr. Obama’s expulsion of 35 Russian embassy officials. Wall Street Journal(Jan 02, 2017) You'd expect the British embassy to choose something more boring, like Sting... BBC(Jan 02, 2017) Russian diplomats who were expelled by Obama left Washington on Sunday, Russian news agencies reported, citing Russia's embassy. Reuters(Jan 01, 2017) 1n a building where diplomats live or work Hyper diplomatic building government building in which diplomats live or work 2n an ambassador and his entourage collectively Hypo|Hyper High Commission an embassy of one British Commonwealth country to another commission, delegacy, delegation, deputation, mission a group of representatives or delegates |
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