| 释义 |
ˈrooming-house orig. U.S.
(See quot. 1893.)
1893Spectator 16 Sept. 366/1 We go to no hotel, but look for what Americans call a ‘rooming house’, i.e., a house which lets furnished apartments. 1909Washington Times 2 Mar. 1 Hundreds of persons who never slept in any but first-class hotels when away from home will tonight get their rest in rooming houses. 1911Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 1 Apr. 13/1 (Advt.), 14 roomed house, just overhauled, repainted and in first class condition. One of the best rooming house propositions in the city. 1923E. F. Wyatt Invis. Gods iii. ii. 105 Fairfax Avenue was now a nondescript street of rooming houses, apartments and carpet-cleaning establishments. 1932New Yorker 9 Apr. 36/2 Miss Cedarholm..succeeded..to the ownership of the brick dwelling at 338 Schermerhorn Street. This she continued to operate as a rooming-house. 1957V. Nabokov Pnin iii. 64 There had been—in yet another rooming house—a still cozier bedroom-study. 1958‘N. Shute’ Rainbow & Rose iii. 76 Ma went there for the movies, and then when her contract ended she kept a rooming house. 1961Daily Tel. 25 Mar. 16/5 The body of a woman.., was found by police officers last night in a rooming house in Lorenzo Street, King's Cross. 1973Sun-Herald (Sydney) 26 Aug. 3/3 Police said another grandchild witnessed the stabbings in a rooming house. 1976Billings (Montana) Gaz. 7 July 10-a/6 She moved to Washington D.C., where she was a proprietor of a rooming house for 20 years. |