cubicle
英 ['kju?b?k(?)l]
美['kjub?kl]
- n. 小臥室；小隔間
GRE低頻詞暢通詞匯
詞態(tài)變化
復數:?cubicles;
中文詞源
cubicle 小房間
來自cub-,躺下，詞源同incubus,succubus.-icle,小詞后綴。
英文詞源
- cubicle
- cubicle: see concubine
- cubicle (n.)
- mid-15c., "bedroom," from Latin cubiculum "bedroom," from cubare "to lie down," originally "bend oneself," from PIE root *keu(b)- "to bend, turn." With Latin -clom, suffix denoting place. Obsolete from 16c. but revived 19c. for "dormitory sleeping compartment," sense of "any partitioned space" (such as a library carrel or, later, office work station) is first recorded 1926.
雙語例句
- 1. She studies in a cubicle in the school library.
- 她在學校圖書館的小自習室里學習.
來自《簡明英漢詞典》
- 2. A technical sergeant hunches in a cubicle.
- 一位技術軍士在一間小屋里彎腰坐著.
來自《現代英漢綜合大詞典》
- 3. In the walls of the cubicle there were three orifices.
- 辦公間的墻上有三個孔洞.
來自英漢文學
- 4. Once again he glanced at his rival in the opposite cubicle.
- 他再瞥一眼對面辦公間里的對手.
來自英漢文學
- 5. He made his way to the nearest toilet and locked himself in a cubicle.
- 他走到最近的衛(wèi)生間，進了一個小隔間后把門反鎖上。
來自辭典例句