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A small wooden house, especially the kind found in mountain areas like the Alps in Switzerland, often used as a holiday home. Today the word is used more loosely for any cottage-style holiday house built in that mountain-cabin look.
小木屋(尤指山區度假小屋)
組成From French; it probably originally meant a herdsman's hut in the mountains. It does not split into clear English pieces.
原始詞典資料2 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
chaletnoun/ˈʃæleɪ/
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An alpine style of wooden building with a sloping roof and overhanging eaves.
- Toward the end of the war, Benoit was sent off on his own with forged papers; he wound up working as a horse groom at a chalet in the Loire valley. Mandelbrot describes this harrowing youth with great sangfroid.
- “I know that Perdita spends the offseason at her chalet in Gstaad, and that her mansion would be empty. And the perfect place to teach you all a valuable lesson about the importance of being nice to people who maybe aren't part of your core group but who have done a lot of nice things for you and yet you still treat them like shit.”
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A recreational lodge or small house within the grounds of a resort or country club dedicated to the uniformed services, used for events, staycations and other social gatherings.
資料來源:英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary(CC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。