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backroom

后室,后厅,后台,后台室

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a room located in the rear, especially one used only by certain people.
    • : a place where powerful or influential persons, especially politicians, meet to plan secretly or from which they exercise control in an indirect manner: The candidate for mayor was chosen in the precincts' back rooms.

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Examples

  • In a dim backroom of a mud hut in Save, 82-year-old Teresa Nyirabutunda sits propped upright in bed by her daughter, Francine.

  • It was reminiscent of the old days of backroom politics and half-drunk reporters swaying against their typewriters.

  • They also ran the second-most important ad of the season, painting Quinn as a creature of a smoky backroom.

  • I thought it would be hidden, out in the woods, or some kind of backroom deal.

  • I want Missourians to make a choice in this election based on policy, not backroom politics.

  • On his way back, he noticed there were two others in the backroom, a couple of men gnawing on pretzels over beers.

  • Lamb worked his way up into the throng and got a glimpse of the other guy getting stiff on the backroom floor.

  • He had also meant to do general repair work in the backroom shop.

  • Nick cleared the pie wrapper off the small counter and tossed it into a box as he headed for the backroom.

  • Look here, Baldy, what was it her father whispered to you—just before she came into the backroom?