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Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary
Collins English-English Dictionary
- cellar ['sεlə]
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1.
n
an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storage - Compare basement
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2.
n
a place where wine is stored
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3.
n
a stock of bottled wines
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4.
vt.
[tr]
to store in a cellar
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5.
vt.
[Etymology]
C13: from Anglo-French, from Latin cell
a rium food store, from cellacella
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1.
n
an underground room, rooms, or storey of a building, usually used for storage - Compare basement
Examples
- This cellar can store up enough coal for the winter.
- 这个地下室足以储备过冬用的煤。 → cellar
- That door gives onto the secret cellar.
- 这扇门通往密窖。 → cellar
- The cellar was a very dark place.
- 地窖是个很黑的地方。 → place
- beer cellar → beer
- this wine is a candidate for his cellar → candidate
- coal cellar → coal
- the noise fetched him from the cellar → fetch
- 这个窖是用来储存蔬菜的。
- This cellar is used for storing vegetables. → 窖
- 她把负伤的战士隐藏在地窖里。
- She hid the wounded soldier in the cellar. → 隐藏
- 他家地窖子里储藏了很多蔬菜。
- The cellar in his family stores many vegetables. → 地窨子
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