| 单词 | quarters |
| 释义 | quarters (once / 163 pages) n A place for people to live, especially if they're in the military, can be called quarters. If you join the Army, your quarters might be a dorm-like space that you share with many other people. You can use this word to mean "housing" generally, although it's most common for soldiers and servants to live in quarters. A wealthy family with maids and a butler who live in their house might set aside servants' quarters on the top floor, for example. During the period of slavery in the US, slaves also lived in quarters. If you and your brother live in "close quarters," it means the two of you share a fairly small room. WORD FAMILYquarter: forequarter, quartered, quartering, quarterly, quarters+/forequarter: forequarters/quartering: quarterings/quarterly: quarterlies USAGE EXAMPLESThough ridiculed in some quarters as a ban on work-related email after hours, it is not quite that. New York Times(Jan 02, 2017) And who will provide the rockets, probes, and crew quarters for that mission? Washington Times(Jan 02, 2017) "It's only small - about three quarters of an inch - and it's jet black with very fine little pincers. " BBC(Jan 02, 2017) n housing available for people to live in he found quarters for his family I visited his bachelor quarters Syn|Hypo|Hyper living quarters accommodation living quarters provided for public convenience diggings, digs, domiciliation, lodgings, padtemporary living quarters dorm, dormitory, hall, residence hall, student residencea college or university building containing living quarters for students fo'c'sle, forecastleliving quarters consisting of a superstructure in the bow of a merchant ship where the crew is housed hareem, harem, seraglio, serailliving quarters reserved for wives and concubines and female relatives in a Muslim household military quartersliving quarters for personnel on a military post barracka building or group of buildings used to house military personnel cabin class, economy class, second classa class of accommodations on a ship or train or plane that are less expensive than first class accommodations bivouac, camp, cantonment, encampmenttemporary living quarters specially built by the army for soldiers first classthe most expensive accommodations on a ship or train or plane gun roommilitary quarters of midshipmen and junior officers on a British warship hall of residencea university dormitory lodging house, rooming housea house where rooms are rented stablingaccommodation for animals (especially for horses) steeragethe cheapest accommodations on a passenger ship third class, tourist classinexpensive accommodations on a ship or train wardroommilitary quarters for dining and recreation for officers of a warship (except the captain) housing, living accommodations, lodging structures collectively in which people are housed |
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