cabin
名词 n.
动词 v.
英文释义
名词 n.
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A small dwelling characteristic of the frontier, especially when built from logs with simple tools and not constructed by professional builders, but by those who meant to live in it.
— Abraham Lincoln was born in a log cabin.
- A chalet or lodge, especially one that can hold large groups of people.
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A private room on a ship.
— the captain’s cabin
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The interior of a boat, enclosed to create a small room, particularly for sleeping.
— Mr. Cooke had had a sloop yacht built at Far Harbor, the completion of which had been delayed, and which was but just delivered. […] The Maria had a cabin, which was finished in hard wood and yellow plush, and accommodations for keeping things cold.
- The passenger area of an airplane.
- The section of a passenger plane having the same class of service.
- A signal box.
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A small room; an enclosed place.
— So long in secret cabin there he held her captive.
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A private office; particularly of a doctor, businessman, lawyer, or other professional.
— There’s Kaul’s boss, the overweight owner of a pharmaceutical firm who spends his days wolfing down junk food in the privacy of his cabin.
动词 v.
- To place in a cabin or other small space.
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To limit the scope of.
— There was a time when this Court’s precedents may have portended the kind of First Amendment liability for purely private property owners that the majority spends so much time rejecting. […] But the Court soon stanched that trend. See Lloyd Corp. v. Tanner, 407 U. S. 551, 561–567 (1972) (cabining Marsh and refusing to extend Logan Valley); Hudgens v. NLRB, 424 U. S. 507, 518 (1976) (making clear that “the rationale of Logan Valley did not survive” Lloyd).
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To live in, or as if in, a cabin; to lodge.
— I'll make you […] cabin in a cave.
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词源 1
From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
词源 2
From Middle English caban, cabane, from Old French cabane, from Medieval Latin capanna (“a cabin”); see further etymology there. Doublet of cabana and cabane.
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