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A garret is a small room at the very top of a house, just under the roof. The word carries discomfort with it: low ceiling, heat in summer, cold in winter, not a place you would choose if you had money. In older stories, poor writers and painters live in a garret. Today most people say attic, and an attic can be a nice converted room. Garret has not quite kept up; it still smells of the nineteenth century. You would sound a little if you used it for a modern top-floor bedroom — unless you meant, kindly or , that the room is cramped and cheap.
閣樓小房間(偏簡陋、窄小;不是舒適的頂樓)
組成From Middle English garett / garite, from Old French garite / guerite, “watchtower,” from garir / guarir, “to defend, protect” (the same family as garrison), ultimately Germanic (the same deep root as garage). Doublet of guerite.
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。
Garretname
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A male given name.
garretnoun/ˈɡæɹɪt/
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An attic or semi-finished room just beneath the roof of a house.
- This morning (we living lately in the garret,) I rose, put on my suit with great skirts, having not lately worn any other clothes but them.
- On an exceptionally hot evening early in July a young man came out of the garret in which he lodged in S. Place and walked slowly, as though in hesitation, towards K. bridge.
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。