喜樂美語
  1. 1nB2/ˈbeɪsmənt/地下室

    The floor or rooms of a building that are below ground level.

    示範例句 · Example

    Mei ran downstairs to the basement to find her old board games.

    逐字美跑下樓到地下室去找她的舊桌遊。

    「basement」是建築物裡「在地面以下」的那一層或那一區——要往下走才會到。常見用途：放東西、洗衣服，或改成房間／公寓（basement flat / apartment）。跟 attic 剛好相反：attic 在最上面，basement 在最下面。可以想成「房子往地下長出來的那一層」。

    常見搭配

    • go down to the basement / downstairs to the basement

      下到地下室

      to move to the floor or area under the ground

      After dinner, Dad went down to the basement to fold the clothes.

    • a basement flat / a basement apartment

      地下室公寓

      a home that is below ground level

      Hana's cousins rent a quiet basement apartment near school.

    • a basement door

      地下室的門

      the door that leads into a basement

      Leo left his bike just inside the basement door.

    • a basement room

      地下室的房間

      a room that is in the basement

      They turned the basement room into a small study corner.

    • a basement window

      地下室的窗戶

      a window in a basement, often close to the ground outside

      Soft light came in through the little basement window.

    • a bargain basement

      （百貨）地下特價區／廉價部

      the cheap section of a large shop, often below ground

      Mum found warm socks in the bargain basement.

    意思相近

    cellarlower levelundercroft

    用法接近

    cellarcryptsubbasementground floor

    意思相反

    atticloftupper floor

core核心畫面

Picture a house cut in half from the side: the lowest box, the one sitting below the level of the pavement, with small windows up near the ceiling if it has any at all. That bottom box is the basement.

可以想成把一棟房子從側面剖開來看：最底下那一格，位置低於外面的路面，就算有窗戶也只能開在靠天花板的地方。那一格就是 basement。

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 basements

意思相近

cellarlower levelundercroft

用法接近

cellarcryptsubbasementground floor

意思相反

atticloftupper floor

原始詞典資料4 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。

basementnoun/ˈbeɪsmənt/

  • 1

    architectureA floor of a building below ground level.

    • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.
  • 2

    geographygeologynatural-sciencesA mass of igneous or metamorphic rock forming the foundation over which a platform of sedimentary rocks is laid.

  • 3

    informalhobbieslifestylesportsLast place in a sports conference's standings.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

  • semi-basement

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