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smoke-filled room

/smohk-fild, -fild/US // ˈsmoʊkˌfɪld, -ˈfɪld //

烟雾缭绕的房间,烟雾弥漫的房间,烟雾缭绕的房间里,烟雾弥漫的房间里

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place, as a hotel room, for conducting secret negotiations, effecting compromises, devising strategy, etc.

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Examples

  • The other is to revert primaries to proverbial smoke-filled rooms in which party insiders choose who runs in the general.

  • Toomey glides around the room like a Brazilian capoeira dancer.

  • There are parks filled with men pushing strollers and coffee shops where fathers meet their friends, babes in arms.

  • Instead, spa hotels filled up with over 30,000 refugees from the war-troubled Donbas region of eastern Ukraine.

  • Mr. Bachner stayed because he realized the city is filled with artisans and the possibilities fascinated him.

  • Buses filled with cops from the 84th Precinct, where Liu had worked.

  • The big room at King's Warren Parsonage was already fairly well filled.

  • In the drawing-room things went on much as they always do in country drawing-rooms in the hot weather.

  • He that seeketh the law, shall be filled with it: and he that dealeth deceitfully, shall meet with a stumblingblock therein.

  • Kind of a reception-room in there—guess I know a reception-room from a hole in the wall.

  • His lordship retired shortly to his study, Hetton and Mr. Haggard betook themselves to the billiard-room.