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summerhouse

/suhm-er-hous/US // ˈsʌm ərˌhaʊs //UK // (ˈsʌməˌhaʊs) //

夏屋,避暑山庄,避暑屋,避暑别墅

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sum·mer·hous·es [suhm-er-hou-ziz]. /ˈsʌm ərˌhaʊ zɪz/.

    • : a simple, often rustic structure in a park or garden, intended to provide shade in the summer.

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Examples

  • The spot to which my companion led me was a ruined summerhouse, not a stone's throw from the outer garden hedge.

  • Greatly allarmed, they turned back, and told my grandmother that a strange man was lying in the summerhouse.

  • She was in the summerhouse up the garden with her treasures spread out before her.

  • I found the captain sitting in the summerhouse alone, without the usual solace of his tobacco and his October.

  • They ran into a wooden summerhouse, painted cunningly after the Chinese fashion, shut themselves in, and drew their swords.