喜樂美語

核心畫面

Picture a space closed on all sides — walls around it, a way in, and nothing leaking out. That sealed room is the whole word: it can be inside a body, inside a machine, inside a gun, or inside a palace, and it can be the grand hall where one particular group meets.

可以想成：一個四面被圍起來的空間——有牆、有入口，裡面的東西跑不出去。整個字就是這間密閉的房間：它可以在身體裡（心臟…更多收起可以想成：一個四面被圍起來的空間——有牆、有入口，裡面的東西跑不出去。整個字就是這間密閉的房間：它可以在身體裡（心臟的四個腔室）、在機器裡、在槍裡，也可以在宮殿裡；而當這個房間專門給某一群人開會用時，它就成了議事廳。

From the picture

開會用的大廳與議院

那個房間變成某一群人專用的場地；用久了，房間的名字就直接拿來指在裡面開會的那個機構。

meeting hall · noun · C1

A large room in an important public building used for big meetings.

議事廳

舊時的臥房

同一個房間用來睡覺、獨處；這層意思在現代英文已經退場，只留在舊書和固定詞裡。

bedroom (old-fashioned) · noun · C2

An old-fashioned word for a bedroom or a private room.

寢室

Also in this word

internal chamber · noun · B2

A closed space inside a body or a machine.

腔室

gun chamber · noun · C1

The part of a gun that holds the bullets.

彈膛

secret room · noun · C1

A room kept for one special use, often a secret or mysterious one.

密室

原始詞典資料21 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。

Chambername

  • 1

    A surname.

chambernoun/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə/

  • 1

    A room or set of rooms

    • Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, / Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, / While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, / As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door.
  • 2

    A room or set of rooms

  • 3

    A room or set of rooms

  • 4

    A room or set of rooms

  • 5

    A room or set of rooms

  • 6

    datedA room or set of rooms

    • A committee of marriageable ladies, or of any Christian persons interested in the propagation of the domestic virtues, should employ a Cruikshank or a Leech, or some other kindly expositor of the follies of the day, to make a series of designs representing the horrors of a bachelor's life in chambers, and leading the beholder to think of better things, and a more wholesome condition.
  • 7

    The legislature or division of the legislature itself.

    • The resolution, which speedily passed the Senate, was unable to gain a majority in the lower chamber.
  • 8

    Any enclosed space occupying or similar to a room.

    • A canal lock chamber; a furnace chamber; a test chamber
另外 5 個記錄的用法
  • 9

    biologynatural-sciencesAn enlarged space in an underground tunnel of a burrowing animal.

  • 10

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentThe area holding the ammunition round at the initiation of its discharge.

    • Dianne loaded a cartridge into the chamber of the rifle, then prepared to take aim at the target.
  • 11

    engineeringfirearmsgovernmentOne of the bullet-holding compartments in the cylinder of a revolver.

  • 12

    historicalA short piece of ordnance or cannon which stood on its breech without any carriage, formerly used chiefly for celebrations and theatrical cannonades.

  • 13

    One of the two atria or two ventricles of the heart.

chamberverb/ˈt͡ʃeɪ̯mbə/

  • 1

    To enclose in a room.

    • She had chambered herself in her room, and wouldn't come out.
  • 2

    To reside in or occupy a chamber or chambers.

    • I chambered with Alexander Preston.
  • 3

    To place in a chamber, as a round of ammunition.

    • The hunter fired at the geese and missed, then shrugged his shoulders and chambered another cartridge.
  • 4

    To create or modify a gun to be a specific caliber.

    • The rifle was originally chambered for 9mm, but had since been modified for a larger, wildcat caliber.
  • 5

    governmenthobbieslifestyleTo prepare an offensive, defensive, or counteroffensive action by drawing a limb or weapon to a position where it may be charged with kinetic energy.

    • Bob chambered his fist for a blow, but Sheila struck first.
  • 6

    obsoleteTo be lascivious.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

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。