英语词汇“drawing room”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

drawing room

noun

1A room in a large private house in which guests can be received and entertained.This was once a state bedroom for visiting dignitaries but is now an elegant drawing room for entertaining important guests....

There are three bedrooms, a drawing room, a dining room, a kitchen and a bathroom.
As well as four bedrooms, the house has a drawing room, dining room, kitchen and a study.

1.1 [as modifier] (Of a song or play) characterized by a polite observance of social proprieties: a stock figure of Thirties drawing-room comedy...

Until Synge wrote Playboy, Irish theatre had been made up entirely of rather dull drawing-room dramas.
Accusations of vicarage film-making are easy gibes to fling at Dame Agatha's drawing-room dramas, especially when the set designers and wardrobe people do such a good job at recreating the period.
Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft were still in the ascendant and the West End was dominated by drawing-room comedies, lightweight whodunnits, American musicals and classic revivals.

Origin

Mid 17th century (denoting a private room attached to a more public one): abbreviation of 16th-century withdrawing-room 'a room to withdraw to'.

单词	drawing room
释义	drawing room noun 1A room in a large private house in which guests can be received and entertained.This was once a state bedroom for visiting dignitaries but is now an elegant drawing room for entertaining important guests.... There are three bedrooms, a drawing room, a dining room, a kitchen and a bathroom. As well as four bedrooms, the house has a drawing room, dining room, kitchen and a study. 1.1 [as modifier] (Of a song or play) characterized by a polite observance of social proprieties: a stock figure of Thirties drawing-room comedy... Until Synge wrote Playboy, Irish theatre had been made up entirely of rather dull drawing-room dramas. Accusations of vicarage film-making are easy gibes to fling at Dame Agatha's drawing-room dramas, especially when the set designers and wardrobe people do such a good job at recreating the period. Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud and Peggy Ashcroft were still in the ascendant and the West End was dominated by drawing-room comedies, lightweight whodunnits, American musicals and classic revivals. Origin Mid 17th century (denoting a private room attached to a more public one): abbreviation of 16th-century withdrawing-room 'a room to withdraw to'.
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