英:[dɔːm]
美:[dɔːrm]
英:[dɔːm]
美:[dɔːrm]
复数:dorms
词根:dorm
adj.dormitory 住宅区的
n.dormitory 宿舍,学生宿舍
noun
dormitory … writing about differences between coed dorms and single-sex dorms.—Karen Frantz The pigeons descend on her, fluttering noisily as she makes her way to a bench outside my freshman dorm.—Julie Zickefoose
In Norway, Tonya and Kerrigan were housed in the same dorm on the campus of the Toneheim Music School.—Randall Sullivan
"美国大学的学生宿舍," 1900年,是 dormitory 的口语缩写。早期它的意思是"小睡,打盹"(1510年代),源自拉丁动词的词干。
The first known use of dorm was in 1900
dorsaladjective
relating to or situated near or on the back (as of an animal)
dormnoun
dormitory
dormousenoun
any of numerous Old World rodents that resemble small squirrels
dormitorynoun
a sleeping room especially for several people
a residence hall having many sleeping rooms
dormousenoun
any of numerous Old World rodents that resemble small squirrels
dormernoun
a window placed upright in a sloping roofalso: the structure containing a dormer window
dormantadjective
not active but capable of becoming active
a dormant volcano
sleeping or appearing to be asleep : sluggish
having growth or other biological activity much reduced or suspended
a dormant bud
of, relating to, or used during a period of no or greatly reduced activity or growth
a dormant spray for fruit trees
dormancynoun
the quality or state of being dormant
dormnoun
dormitory
1 She lived in my dorm also.
她也住在同一座宿舍楼。
2 “When you’re in the dorm, you will treat it just like you are in this house. All the same rules apply. Do you understand?”
3 In the Seniors, we were down to six per dorm, so it was just our little group, and we often had our most intimate conversations lying in the dark before we fell asleep.
4 Rick stood in my dorm lobby, so tall and handsome.
里克站在我的宿舍前厅里, 那么高大,那么英俊.
5 He had one more stop to make, and then he’d pick her up at her dorm room.
6 I wonder what the girls who’ve slept in my future dorm room over the years are doing with their lives right now.
7 I teased, after a giant rat charged past us outside her dorm—and its student population, twice the size of Princeton’s, was almost entirely black.
8 In about twelve hours, in an undergraduate dorm room in New York, he had poured the foundation for the Human Genome Project.
9 The others cheer as he gives the car an instruction to take us into Shibuya instead of back to our dorms.
10 To demonstrate its effectiveness in controlling lice, guards asked five men and five women in each of the infested dorm rooms to wash themselves with the cloudy liquid.
11 The everyday world had surprises, too, like hot showers in the dorm.
12 For a minute, I just stare at my phone, only half listening to the Radiohead song drifting out of someone’s dorm room.
13 Tonight, coolly, almost solemnly, they marched to the girls’ dorms, deadly serious.
14 I imagined August twenty-sixth, when I would wake up to see a made bed and think of Lily in Atlanta already awake and in the dorm room unpacking her suitcase, deciding where to put stuff.
15 And just then, an explosion rips through our dorm.
16 It was a new ugly, awkwardly exploding into unfamiliar height, tugging at his dorm uniform like it was already too tight.
17 “I’m trying to be helpful,” I called after her, but they hurried toward the dorm.
18 I make myself understand, again, that I am in a dorm room at a college.
19 It took ten minutes for Chip to find his stuff, and an hour more for us to make four trips back and forth across the dorm circle’ between the TV room and Room 43.
20 He's in his Harvard dorm on a laptop.
他在哈佛宿舍里使用电脑。