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dormitory

/dawr-mi-tawr-ee, -tohr-ee/US // ˈdɔr mɪˌtɔr i, -ˌtoʊr i //UK // (ˈdɔːmɪtərɪ, -trɪ) //

宿舍,寝室,宿舍楼,卧室

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural dor·mi·to·ries.

    • : a building, as at a college, containing a number of private or semiprivate rooms for residents, usually along with common bathroom facilities and recreation areas.
    • : a room containing a number of beds and serving as communal sleeping quarters, as in an institution, fraternity house, or passenger ship.

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Examples

  • He said dormitories at the 13,000-student school also weathered the challenge.

  • Just as Shahra was preparing to build the farm—Sekaran left the company earlier this year—Singaporean officials discovered a cluster of covid-19 cases in one of the country’s cramped worker dormitories.

  • The BIE, which serves about 8% of Native students across the country, directly operates about a third of the 180 schools and dormitories in its system.

  • At the end of his workday, Suga returns to his quarters in a modest dormitory for legislators and, before turning in, does 100 more sit-ups.

  • There was a classic study that took over an entire dormitory and tried to see who would become friends with whom.

  • The dormitory has since been converted into a small chapel, filled with polished wooden stools and a statue of Mary in the corner.

  • The one band that blasted out of dormitory windows onto grassy quadrangles in the snooty Northeast, no matter what, was REM.

  • Ginsberg had become annoyed that the woman the university employed to clean dormitory rooms never washed the window in his room.

  • Ironically, Dick Cheney lived in that same dormitory decades later.

  • Some have even been at the dormitory during the fall term looking for him.

  • She was speaking to Alicia Livingstone in the dormitory, changing at the same time for a "turn" at the hospital.

  • Such was the temptation which assailed the other boys in dormitory Number 7; and Eric among the number.

  • The first time that Eric heard indecent words in dormitory Number 7, he was shocked beyond bound or measure.

  • Why, you must be the girl who wrote a picture play to help build a dormitory for your school!

  • If the former erects a handsome dormitory, the latter must have one larger and finer.