: a room or set of rooms fitted especially with housekeeping facilities and usually leased as a dwelling
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: a building containing several individual apartments
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British: a large and impressive room or set of rooms—usually plural
Assured that the Queen and Prince Philip had retired to bed, Mr Hillyard tried to pass through the Royal apartments as the train left Aberdeen on its journey to London. Jonathan Petre
We lived in an apartment for several years before buying a house. a spacious six-room apartment that occupies the entire upper floor of a two-family house
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1 (especially NAmE) a flat公寓ADJECTIVE | VERB + APARTMENT | APARTMENT + NOUNADJECTIVE➤large, spacious大公寓;寬敞的公寓▸➤cramped, small, tiny狹小的公寓;小公寓;很小的公寓➤cozy (NAmE) 溫馨舒適的公寓▸➤comfortable, luxury舒適的/豪華的公寓➤dingy, shabby又黑又髒的/破舊的公寓◇Colin lives in a dingy one-room apartment with his pet turtles.科林和他的寵物烏龜住在一個又黑又髒的單間公寓裏。➤modern現代化公寓▸➤one-bedroom, two-bedroom, etc., one-bedroomed, two-bedroomed, etc. (BrE) 一間卧室、兩間卧室等的公寓▸➤studio單間公寓▸➤first-floor, second-floor, etc.一樓、二樓等的公寓➤downstairs, upstairs樓下的/樓上的公寓◇the people who live in the upstairs apartment住在樓上公寓裏的人們➤basement, loft, penthouse地下室/閣樓/頂層公寓➤high-rise高層公寓◇Larger cities have many high-rise apartments.較大的城市中有許多高層公寓。➤rental, rented租用的公寓➤empty無人居住的公寓▸➤holiday, self-catering (both BrE) 假日公寓;自供伙食的公寓VERB + APARTMENT➤buy買公寓▸➤lease, rent, sublet出租/租用/轉租公寓◇We will be renting the apartment for a year.我們將租用這套公寓一年。➤live in, share, stay in住在公寓;合住一套公寓;暫住在公寓◇I share an apartment with two friends.我和兩個朋友合住一套公寓。➤look for尋找公寓◇I'm looking for an apartment on the east side of the city.我正在城東找一處公寓。➤find找到公寓▸➤move into, move out of搬進/遷出公寓➤clean, decorate, furnish, renovate打掃/裝飾/用傢具佈置/翻新公寓APARTMENT + NOUN➤block, building, complex, house (NAmE) 公寓大樓;(小的)公寓樓◇high-rise apartment buildings高層公寓大樓➤living住在公寓裏的生活➤dweller公寓住客◇Apartment dwellers can participate in community gardens.公寓住戶可以在社區的花園中參加活動。apartment
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2apartments (BrE) set of rooms一套房間ADJECTIVE➤private, royal, state私人套間;王室套房;貴賓套房◇the private apartments of the imperial family王室成員的私人套房