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On a , the wardroom is the room where the officers eat, relax and hold meetings. Everyone on board except the captain uses it — the captain has separate quarters and is invited in as a guest, which is a real tradition, not a small detail. Sailors below officer rank have their own mess and do not go in. The word also gets used for the officers themselves, as a group: 'The wardroom was against the plan.' That is the same trick English plays with 'the White House said' or 'the office thinks' — the place stands for the people in it. It belongs to naval life and to sea stories. Outside the navy you will not need it, but it turns up constantly in novels, films and memoirs about ships, so it is worth recognising. Navies on land use it too, for the officers' mess at a shore base. Stress the first syllable: WARD-room.
（軍艦上的）軍官室、軍官餐廳；艦長除外，其餘軍官在此用餐休息
組成ward + room. The older form was 'wardrobe room' — a storeroom on a ship where captured goods and spare gear were kept — and over time the officers took the space over for eating and sitting. So the 'ward' part carries the old sense of keeping or guarding something, the same sense you find in 'warden' and 'wardrobe'.
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。
wardroomnoun
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nauticaltransportThe living quarters of a ship designated for the commissioned officers other than the captain.
- There were only about a dozen officers in the great wardroom, six of them in the khaki gabardine working uniform of the U.S. Navy.
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nauticaltransportThe commissioned officers of a ship, excluding the captain.
- The captain rarely referred to his wardroom for advice, and this resulted in their discontent.
- […] it having also reached the ears of the Ward-room that the work contained reflections somewhat derogatory to the dignity of the officers, the volume was seized by the master-at-arms, armed with a warrant from the Captain.
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。