| 词汇 | country-house |
| 释义 | country house noun[ C ] mainly UKuk /ˌkʌn.tri ˈhaʊs/ us /ˌkʌn.tri ˈhaʊs/ a large traditional house in the countryside, especially one that has belonged to the same family for many years: （尤指多年属于同一家族的）乡间宅邸，祖宅，庄园 Through the trees we could see a beautiful Georgian country house.透过树林，我们可以看到一处漂亮的乔治王时代的庄园。 Justin Paget/Stone/GettyImages Houses & homes A-frame ADU affordable housing almshouse apartment dosshouse dower house duplex efficiency efficiency apartment Nissen hut non-housing old people's home palace palazzo town house townhouse tract house trap house two-up two-down Examples of country housecountry house The entire series ought to find a place on every countryhouse bookshelf. And part of the fun of having a countryhouse was to visit everyone else's. Until recently, however, neither architectural nor social historians have paid all that much attention to the origins of the countryhouse. Building and visiting houses kept many families busy, but what exactly did one do in a countryhouse? The polite tourist : four centuries of countryhouse visiting. One cannot help feeling that the countryhouse is simply a place to be milked for the book they are writing. Certainly for most of the twentieth century the countryhouse was regarded as a liability. The curse of the countryhouse is their cost. In the early twentieth century the magic lantern, and then private cinemas, offered new forms of entertainment which made few demands on the skills of countryhouse visitors. We went laboriously through all the figures of countryhouse and agricultural estate expenditure, failing completely to find any point at which economy was possible. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sometimes they have to sell the contents of a countryhouse. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I have in mind, for example, persons who own a countryhouse with, perhaps, 500 or 1,000 acres around it. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Sometimes they are in a camp and sometimes they are in a countryhouse, where the inmates can be engaged on agricultural work. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 In other words, it is not only the house and its contents but the outdoor recreation which a visit to a countryhouse can provide. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Or is an attempt made in a kind of countryhouse interview to find what his underlying qualities of character are? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of country house These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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