柯林斯英汉双解大词典
backroom /ˈbækrʊm/ (also back room)
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N-COUNT A backroom is a room that is situated at the back of a building, especially a private room. 密室
例：...the backroom of the officers' club.
...官员俱乐部中的密室。
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N-COUNT You can use backroom to refer to people in an organization who do important work but are not seen or known about by the public. You can also use backroom to refer to a place where such people work. 幕后 [oft N n]
例：Public scrutiny had brought civil servants out from the backroom and into the spotlight.
公开审查使得公务员从幕后变成焦点。
例：...Mr. Smith's backroom staff.
...史密斯先生的幕后员工。
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ADJ If you refer to a deal made by someone such as a politician as a backroom deal, you disapprove of it because it has been made in a secret, dishonest way. 秘密的; 在幕后进行的 [ADJ n] [表不满]
例：They have been calling the presidency decision a backroom deal.
他们称总统的决定为幕后政策。
双语例句原声例句权威例句
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My heart sank when the man at the immigration counter gestured to the back room.
当移民柜台的男士向后面的房间示意时，我的心沉了下去。
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In the back room of the little bakery, his interest in design and his baking talent combined to work wonders—he shaped delicious masterpieces out of flour, butter and sugar.
在这家小面包房的后屋里，他对设计的兴趣和他在烘焙方面的天赋结合在一起创造了奇迹——他用面粉、黄油和糖做出了美味的大师级作品。
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We've come a long way since our first Hardinge factory in a back room in Chicago, Illinois.
自从哈挺的工厂在伊利诺斯州芝加哥市一个后院建成以来，我们走过了漫长的路程。
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Millions of radio listeners heard a voice from the Cape Canaveral control room say: "This is it,Alan Shepard,there's no turning back.
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But then suddenly they get yanked back, and they wake up, you know, in the hospital room.
但是突然他们被猛拽回来,然后他们在病房里,醒了过来
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But all of you in this room probably remember what we technically call the base 10 system or decimal system because back in grade school or the like, you learned to count and add and subtract numbers by way of columns.
但是，在座的每一位可能都记得,这在小学的时候学的,以10为进制的系统或者十进制系统,通过数列方式学习数数和加减法。
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