room /ruːm/ CET4 TEM4 ( rooming, roomed, rooms )

• 1. 

  N-COUNT A room is one of the separate sections or parts of the inside of a building. Rooms have their own walls, ceilings, floors, and doors, and are usually used for particular activities. You can refer to all the people who are in a room as the room. 房间

  例：

  A minute later he excused himself and left the room.

  一分钟后他告辞了，离开了房间。

  例：

  The largest conference room could seat 5,000 people.

  最大的会议室可坐5千人。

• 2. 

  N-COUNT If you talk about your room, you are referring to the room that you alone use, especially your bedroom at home or your office at work. (我的) 房间

  例：

  If you're running upstairs, go to my room and bring down my sweater, please.

  如果你要上楼的话，请到我的房间把我的毛衣拿下来。

• 3. 

  N-COUNT A room is a bedroom in a hotel. (酒店的) 客房

  例：

  Toni reserved a room in a hotel not far from Arzfeld.

  托妮在离阿茨费尔德不远的酒店预定了一个房间。

• 4. 

  V-I If you room with someone, you share a rented room, apartment, or house with them, for example when you are a student. 合住 [美国英语]

  例：

  I had roomed with him in New Haven when we were both at Yale Law School.

  我们俩在耶鲁法学院上学的时候，我和他在纽黑文合住。

• 5. 

  N-UNCOUNT If there is room somewhere, there is enough empty space there for people or things to be fitted in, or for people to move freely or do what they want to. 空间

  例：

  There is usually room to accommodate up to 80 visitors.

  通常可以多能容纳80名来宾。

• 6. 

  N-UNCOUNT If there is room for a particular kind of behaviour or action, people are able to behave in that way or to take that action. 机会

  例：

  The intensity of the work left little room for personal grief or anxiety.

  该工作的强度很少给个人留下悲伤或忧虑的机会。

• 7. 

  → see also chat room, dining room, drawing room, emergency room, living room, restroom