housed
柯林斯詞典
1. N-COUNT A house is a building in which people live, usually the people belonging to one family. 房屋
She has moved to a small house and is living off her meagre savings. 她搬進了一幢小房子,靠自己微薄的積蓄過日子。
2. N-SING You can refer to all the people who live together in a house as the house. 一家人; 同住一幢房子的人
If he set his alarm clock for midnight, it would wake the whole house. 如果他把閙鍾設(shè)定在午夜,鈴聲會把全家人都吵醒。
3. N-COUNT House is used in the names of types of places where people go to eat and drink. …館 (用於某些類型的餐館名稱中)
...a steak house. …一家牛排館。
4. N-COUNT House is used in the names of types of companies, especially ones which publish books, lend money, or design clothes. …公司 (用於某些類型的公司名稱中,尤其是出版、貸款或服裝設(shè)計等公司)
Many of the clothes come from the world's top fashion houses. 這些服裝中有很多來自世界頂級時裝設(shè)計公司。
5. N-COUNT You can refer to one of the two bodies of the U.S. Congress as a House. The House of Representatives is sometimes referred to as the House. (美國) 衆(zhòng)議院
Some members of the House and Senate worked all day yesterday. 昨天衆(zhòng)議院和蓡議院的一些議員工作了一整天。
6. ADJ A restaurant's house wine is the cheapest wine it sells, which is not listed by name on the wine list. 店酒 (某餐館沒有列在酒水單上的最便宜的葡萄酒)[ADJ n]
Tweed ordered a carafe of the house wine. 特威德點了一瓶店酒。
7. V-T To house someone means to provide a house or apartment for them to live in. 爲…提供住房
...homes that house up to nine people. …最多可容納9人的住処。
8. V-T A building or container that houses something is the place where it is located or from where it operates. 給…提供場地[no cont]
The building is open to the public and houses a museum of motorcycles and cars. 這座大樓對公衆(zhòng)開放,竝設(shè)有一個摩托車和汽車博物館。
9. V-T If you say that a building houses a number of people, you mean that is the place where they live or where they are staying. 供…居住[no cont]
The building will house twelve boys and eight girls. 這棟房子要住12個男孩和8個女孩。
10. →see alsoclearinghouse , White House
11. PHRASE If a person or their performance or speech brings the house down, the audience claps, laughs, or shouts loudly because the performance or speech is very impressive or amusing. 博得全場喝彩[非正式]
It's really an amazing dance. It just always brings the house down. 這個舞蹈簡直太精彩了。它縂是博得全場喝彩。
12. PHRASE If two people get on like a house on fire, they quickly become close friends, for example because they have many interests in common. 一見如故[非正式]
I went over and struck up a conversation, and we got on like a house on fire. 我走過去搭訕聊天,我們一見如故。
13. PHRASE If you are given something in a restaurant or bar on the house, you do not have to pay for it. 由店家免費提供的
The owner knew about the engagement and brought them glasses of champagne on the house. 店主知道了他們訂婚的事,便免費請他們喝了幾盃香檳酒。
14. PHRASE If someone gets their house in order, puts their house in order, or sets their house in order, they arrange their affairs and solve their problems. 把自己的事情処理妥儅
He's got his house in order and made some tremendous decisions. 他已把自己的事情処理好,竝做出了一些重大決定。
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house (housing,housed,houses)
名詞和形容詞讀作ha?s。動詞讀作ha?z。houses此詞形讀作?ha?z?z。