- 1nB1/ˈbɔːlruːm/舞廳；宴會大廳
A large room used for formal dancing, often in a hotel.
示範例句 · Example
The hotel ballroom was big enough for three hundred guests.
逐字那個飯店舞廳大到足夠給三百位客人。
「ballroom」是英文裡「很大、很正式、專門給大家跳舞的房間」，常見在飯店裡（hotel ballroom）。核心畫面可以想成「一個大到能辦舞會的大廳」。它也常當形容用法：ballroom dancing（交際舞／交誼舞）、ballroom dance class（交誼舞課）——講的是那種正式、成雙成對的舞步風格。跟一般 hall（大廳）比，ballroom 特別帶「跳舞／正式場合」的感覺；也跟台灣口語有時把「舞廳」講成夜店的意思分開記——英文 ballroom 是正式大舞廳。
常見搭配
hotel ballroom
飯店的宴會大廳／舞廳
a large formal room for dancing or events in a hotel
The award ceremony was held in the hotel ballroom.
ballroom dancing
交際舞；交誼舞
formal dancing for couples, such as the waltz
Mei signed up for ballroom dancing on Saturday mornings.
ballroom dance class / classes
交誼舞課
a class that teaches formal couple dancing
The center also offers tap and ballroom dance classes.
ballroom dancer
交誼舞者
a person who does formal couple dancing
The ballroom dancers moved across the floor in long, smooth steps.
in the ballroom
在舞廳裡
inside the large formal dancing room
Guests gathered in the ballroom for the school celebration.
grand / large ballroom
宏偉／很大的舞廳
a very big, impressive ballroom
The wedding party filled the grand ballroom.
意思相近
dance hallbanquet hallhall
用法接近
auditoriumhallsalonreception room
core核心畫面
Picture a hall with nothing in the middle of it: a polished floor left empty on purpose, overhead, tables pushed to the walls. The room is built around the space where people will dance.
From the word’s history
The ball in ballroom is not the round ball. It is a separate word that entered English in the 1630s from French baller 'to dance', through Late Latin ballare and Greek ballizein. So a ballroom is literally a dancing room, and it has no historical link to ball meaning a sphere, which came from Germanic roots around 1200.
ballroom 裡的 ball 不是圓球的那個 ball。它是另一個字，1630 年代從法文 baller（跳舞）進入英文，再往上是晚期拉丁文 ballare 和希臘文 ballizein。所以 ballroom 字面就是「跳舞的房間」，跟表示球體的 ball（約 1200 年來自日耳曼語系）在歷史上並沒有關係。
Online Etymology Dictionary — https://www.etymonline.com/word/ball
容易混在一起的字在訂閱裡。容易混在一起的字需要訂閱帳號。
複數 ballrooms
意思相近
dance hallbanquet hallhall
用法接近
auditoriumhallsalonreception room
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
ballroomnoun/ˈbɔːlɹuːm/
- 1
A large room used for dancing and banquets.
- The boy became volubly friendly and bubbling over with unexpected humour and high spirits. He tried to persuade Cicely to stay away from the ball-room for a fourth dance. Nobody would miss them, he explained.
- 2
A type of elegant dance.
ballroomverb/ˈbɔːlɹuːm/
- 1
To take part in ballroom dancing.
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