anteroom

英 [ˈæntiruːm]

美 [ˈæntiruːm]

n.  (尤指重要公共建筑的)前厅，接待室

复数：anterooms　

机械

BNC.35462 / COCA.23988

牛津词典

noun

• （尤指重要公共建筑的）前厅，接待室
  a room where people can wait before entering a larger room, especially in an important public building

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 前厅;休息室;接待室
  Ananteroomis a small room leading into a larger room.
  1. He had been patiently waiting in the anteroom for an hour.
     他在前厅耐心地等了一个小时。

英英释义

noun

• a large entrance or reception room or area
  Synonym:antechamberentrance hallhallfoyerlobbyvestibule

双语例句

• The toilet room and anteroom shall be large enough to safely manage the patient.
  门厅和厕所面积应满足病人安全管理。
• But on hearing that Captain Henry had reappeared he jumped up and went out to the anteroom.
  可是一听说亨利上校又来了，他顿时跳起身，走进了会客室。
• One day, when the emperor had come to visit his uncle, the worthy cure, who was waiting in the anteroom, found himself present when his majesty passed.
  一天，皇帝来看他的舅父，这位尊贵的本堂神甫正在前厅候见，皇上也恰巧走过。
• A lobby or an anteroom, as of a theater or hotel
  休息室，候客室如戏院或旅馆的休息室或接待室
• He had been patiently waiting in the anteroom for an hour.
  他在前厅耐心地等了一个小时。
• But if you believe, as I wrote last month, that radical innovations in management theory are increasingly infrequent, the anteroom of uncrowned visionaries would empty quickly.
  但如果你像我上月所写的那样，认为管理理论的革命性创新日益罕见，那么可供评选的思想家很快就会所剩无几。
• He cooled his heels for a full half-hour in the anteroom before the gentleman would see him.
  他在接待室里从冷板凳，足足等了半个钟头那位先生才肯接见他。
• Leaving the elevator on the tenth floor, they stepped into the windowless anteroom.
  走出十楼的电梯间，他们走进了那间没窗子的接待室。
• In an anteroom he hastily opened his briefcase.
  在休息室里，他迅速地打开皮包。
• If the physician is busy when patients arrive, the nurse asks them to wait in the anteroom.
  如果病人来的时候医生很忙，护士就请他们去接待室等候。