| 词汇 | amenity |
| 释义 | amenity noun[ Cusually plural ] uk /əˈmiː.nə.ti/ us /əˈmen.ə.t̬i/ something, such as a swimming pool or shopping centre, that is intended to make life more pleasant or comfortable for the people in a town, hotel, or other place: 生活福利设施，便利设施；娱乐消遣设施 The council has some spare cash, which it proposes to spend on public amenities.政务委员会有一些余款，计划用来增添一些公共便利设施。 basic amenities things considered to be necessary to live comfortably, such as hot water: 基本生活设施 The 200-year-old jail is overcrowded, understaffed, and lacking in basic amenities.这座已有200年历史的监狱拥挤不堪、警力不足，而且缺乏基本的生活设施。 Society - general words active citizen active citizenship civilized consumer society culturomics human interest hunter-gatherer non-segregated non-segregation non-utility social engineer social engineering sociality socially societal sociological sociologically sociologist sociology uncivilized amenity | American Dictionaryamenity noun[ Cusually pl ] us/əˈmen·ɪ·t̬i, əˈmi·nɪ·t̬i/ something intended to make life more pleasant or comfortable for people: Straus established employee amenities such as restrooms, medical care, and a lunchroom. amenity | Business Englishamenity noun[ C ] uk /əˈmiːnəti/ us /əˈmenəti/pluralamenities something such as a swimming pool or shopping area that is intended to make life more pleasant or convenient for people in a town, hotel, or other place: public amenities. basic amenities simple things that are considered necessary for comfort: In some countries most people earn less than a dollar a day and lack basic amenities such as clean water. The hotel's rooms are functional, incorporating all the basic amenities but no more. Examples of amenityamenity Instead, new social movements have organised around issues as diverse as gender, environment, urban inequalities, traveller issues, social amenities, service charges and so on. The concerns revolve around their audiences' appraisal of the amenities and proximity of the theatre. Clearly, air attacks on city centres which provided essential amenities to nearby working-class communities severely damaged civilian morale in these areas. Builders often could not afford to pave streets and provide the other amenities needed if they were to build houses on suburban ®elds. The argument has been invoked in the main for amenities. The second home was customarily smaller, had fewer amenities and regarded as supplementary. Each dwelling is accessed from an urban street side and opens out onto a shared landscape which includes amenities for passive and active recreation. The new funding has helped to improve the condition, standards and amenities of temporary accommodation for single homeless people. In the more middle class areas overcrowding and shared amenities more often referred to bedsitter accommodation for students. In addition, expenditure on housing and community amenities, as well as other community and social services, provided substantial benefits to the poor and disadvantaged. Whether the proportion of expenditure devoted to environmental amenities increases with rising income is an empirical matter, and little is known. One explanation of this finding is that people in poor countries cannot afford to emphasize amenities over material well-being. Not every impact from climate change (especially those related to biodiversity, human health, and social amenities) can be easily identified using monetary units. They faced the challenge of providing modern amenities and adapting the urban form to solve problems of overcrowding and unsanitary dwellings. The main preoccupation of much of the current research is with the proper way of measuring environmental amenities. See all examples of amenity 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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