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tavern

/tav-ern/US // ˈtæv ərn //UK // (ˈtævən) //

酒馆,小酒馆,客栈,酒铺

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a place where liquors are sold to be consumed on the premises.
    • : a public house for travelers and others; inn.

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Examples

  • A few Saturdays ago, a charming teacher asked Katherine Palmer, 64, on a date at a local tavern.

  • The tavern originally consisted of three keg taps and four barstools alongside the repair pit.

  • I ask her if the news stories and social media — where travelers share proud selfies with her and accounts that specialize in fascinating facts repost images of the tavern — have been a boon for business.

  • The tavern is the only business in Monowi, and running it is Eiler’s most important and longest-standing job.

  • Whoever was elected captain would take them down to the local tavern and they’d get blasted.

  • Throughout the years it has also served as a sailor tavern and a high-end restaurant.

  • She could have auditioned to be the tavern wench or a faerie; instead, she signed on as a merchant, knitting chain-mail bikinis.

  • So raucous did the celebration get that City Tavern took the unusual step of sending along a bill for “breakage.”

  • At the end of the fourth season premiere, Arya and The Hound stumble upon a tavern in the woods.

  • “I was just with him at the Minetta Tavern, having a martini and a burger,” she says.

  • Tatham says, "Even the tavern keepers were compelled to exchange a dinner for a few pounds of tobacco."

  • "I think I'll stroll down to the tavern and see this stranger," I replied carelessly.

  • It has been years since they have had a license at our tavern, so there was a solitary man in the bar-room when I entered.

  • To solve this one I stopped on the tavern steps, leaned against a pillar, and gazed through the dozing village.

  • Longcluse had made up his mind promptly on the night of the billiard-match played in the Saloon Tavern.