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meeting house

/mee-ting hous/US // ˈmi tɪŋ ˌhaʊs //

会议室,会场,会所,聚会所

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a house or other building for communal gathering, especially a place of Protestant worship. Common in Colonial America for both public business and religious worship, a meeting house today is usually a place of worship for Quakers, Mennonites, Mormons, or certain other nonconformist denominations.

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  • American and British physicians worked side by side in the meeting house to treat the wounded.

  • This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.

  • Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.

  • He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.

  • Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.

  • While 19 percent of the House is female, just one woman will get to chair one of its 20 committees.

  • It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.

  • A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.

  • On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.

  • Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.

  • It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.