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单词 chalet
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chalet

(ʃæleɪ, US ʃæleɪ)
Word forms: plural chalets
countable noun
A chalet is a small wooden house, especially in a mountain area or a holiday camp.

chalet in British English

(ˈʃæleɪ, French ʃalɛ)
noun
1. 
a type of wooden house of Swiss origin, typically low, with wide projecting eaves
2. 
a similar house used esp as a ski lodge, garden house, etc
Word origin
C19: from French (Swiss dialect)

chalet in American English

(ʃælˈeɪ; ˈʃæleɪ)
noun
1. 
a herdsman's hut or cabin in the Swiss Alps
2. 
a. 
a type of Swiss house, built of wood with balconies and overhanging eaves
b. 
any house, cottage, lodge, etc. built in this style
Word origin
Swiss-Fr, prob. dim. of OFr chasel, farmhouse < VL *casalis, belonging to a house < L casa, a house, cabin

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chalet

ski chalet

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Examples of 'chalet' in a sentence
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One challenge was to introduce as many windows as possible, to dispel the twilight gloom common to many mountain chalets.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
It has eight chalets with decked areas and a small pool.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The hotel owns a small chalet high up the side of an adjacent mountain.
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
Think of it as a ski chalet for mountain bikers.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Torn between a beach pad and a ski chalet?
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
The place is on three floors and looks like a ski chalet.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
This includes flights from Heathrow and chalet board.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
There are four rooms in the main lodge, and individual chalets and lodges in the grounds.
Times, Sunday Times (2014)
The Summit is based on an alpine luxury ski chalet.
The Sun (2015)
The accommodation is no-frills wooden chalets.
Times, Sunday Times (2007)
The wooden chalet perched on top of cliffs in the fictional seaside town was the murder scene in the first series and featured prominently in the second.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
In addition, eight out of ten buyers aim to let out their ski chalet or apartment when they are not using it.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
Once the exertion is over you return to the camp's wooden chalets to soak up the tranquil setting or unwind in the thermal pools.
Times, Sunday Times (2009)
This includes Gatwick flights, transfers and chalet board.
Times, Sunday Times (2016)
 Wooden chalets, fields, towering mountains.
Times, Sunday Times (2010)
Well, what about buying the ski chalet for her 18th?
Times, Sunday Times (2008)
He was the owner of a small chalet chain, though, so he got away with a comment like that.
Times, Sunday Times (2011)
Wall had also borrowed money from the company to buy his family a Swiss ski chalet, and executive pay had jumped.
Times, Sunday Times (2013)
I'm off to buy a holiday home in Spain or a ski chalet.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)

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chalet

British English: chalet NOUN
A chalet is a small wooden house, especially in a mountain area or a holiday camp.
...ski chalets.
  • American English: chalet
  • Brazilian Portuguese: chalé
  • Chinese: > 小木屋山区
  • European Spanish: cabaña (de madera)
  • French: chalet
  • German: Chalet
  • Italian: chalet
  • Japanese: 山小屋
  • Korean: 샬레
  • European Portuguese: chalé
  • Latin American Spanish: cabaña(de madera)

Chinese translation of 'chalet'

chalet

(ˈʃæleɪ)

n (c)

  1. 小木屋 (xiǎomùwū) (座, zuò)
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