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  • [haʊs][haʊz]

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  • Conjugation : past  housed ; ing  housing ; pl  houses
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Collins English-Chinese Dictionary

house [haus]
  1. 1. noun [c] (home) 家
  2. 2. noun [s] (household) 全家
    The noise woke the whole house.
    那个声音吵醒了全家
  3. 3. noun [c] publishing house/steak house (company) 出版社/牛肉馆
  4. 4. noun [c] 议院
  5. 5. noun [c] [Theater] 观众
  6. 6. noun [c] (dynasty) 王室
    the House of Windsor
    英国王室
  7. 7. vt. [+person] 提供住房
    Too many married couples are waiting to be housed.
    太多已婚夫妻正等着提供住房
  8. 8. vt. [+collection] 储藏
    This is the building which houses the library.
    就是藏书那个建筑
    at/to my house
    在/到我家
    to get {or} put {or} set one's house in order
    自己的事情处理妥当
    to bring the house down
    [inf] 博得全场喝彩
    drinks are on the house
    饮料免费
    to keep house
    料理家务

Comprehensive English-Chinese Dictionary

house [haʊs] [haʊs] [haʊz]
  1. 1. noun [People] Edward Mandell House 爱德华·曼德尔·豪斯(1858-1938),美国外交官
  2. 2. n.[c] 房子住宅
    She felt she had to get out of the house.
    感到必须房子外面
    He has a house on Cape Cod.
    他在科德角有一所房子
  3. 3. n.[c] 公司商行商业机构
    He worked for a brokerage house.
    他为证券公司工作
  4. 4. n.[c] 宗教会所
  5. 5. n.[c] 观众听众
    He counted the house.
    他数着观众人数
    The house applauded.
    观众们喝彩
  6. 6. n.[c] 议院大楼
    A bicameral legislature has two houses.
    两院制立法机构由两院组成
  7. 7. n.[c] 皇族王朝
  8. 8. n.[u] [Games] 过家家
    The children were playing house.
    孩子们正在玩过家家游戏
  9. 9. n.[c] [Astrology] 黄道十二宫之一
  10. 10. n.[u] 赌场赌场经营者
    The house gets a percentage of every bet.
    每次投注一定百分比赌场所有
  11. 11. n.[c] 家,家庭
    I waited until the whole house was asleep.
    一直等到家里所有的人都睡着
  12. 12. n.[c] 戏院剧场电影院
    The house was full.
    剧场满座了。
  13. 13. n.[c] 建筑建筑物
    They had a large carriage house.
    他们一个很大的马车棚。
  14. 14. vt. 收纳储存
    This box houses the gears.
    这个箱子中装了些齿轮
  15. 15. vt. 给……房子住,为……提供住房
    The immigrants were housed in a new development outside the town.
    移民安顿在城外的新开发区中。

Collins English-English Dictionary

house
  1. 1. n a building used as a home; dwelling
  2. 2. n (as modifier)
    house dog
  3. 3. n the people present in a house, esp its usual occupants
  4. 4. n a building used for some specific purpose
  5. 5. n (in combination)
    a schoolhouse
  6. 6. n [often capital] a family line including ancestors and relatives, esp a noble one
    the House of York
  7. 7. n a commercial company; firm
    a publishing house
  8. 8. n (as modifier)
    house style
    a house journal
  9. 9. n an official deliberative or legislative body, such as one chamber of a bicameral legislature
  10. 10. n a quorum in such a body (esp in the phrase make a house)
  11. 11. n a dwelling for a religious community
  12. 12. n [astrology] any of the 12 divisions of the zodiac - See also planet
  13. 13. n any of several divisions, esp residential, of a large school
  14. 14. n (as modifier)
    house spirit
  15. 15. n a hotel, restaurant, bar, inn, club, etc, or the management of such an establishment
  16. 16. n (as modifier)
    house rules
  17. 17. n (in combination)
    steakhouse
  18. 18. n [modifier] (of wine) sold unnamed by a restaurant, at a lower price than wines specified on the wine list
    the house red
  19. 19. n the audience in a theatre or cinema
  20. 20. n an informal word for brothel
  21. 21. n a hall in which an official deliberative or legislative body meets
  22. 22. n See full house
  23. 23. n [curling] the 12-foot target circle around the tee
  24. 24. n [nautical] any structure or shelter on the weather deck of a vessel
  25. 25. n an emphatic form of home
  26. 26. vt. [tr] to provide with or serve as accommodation
  27. 27. vt. to give or receive shelter or lodging
  28. 28. vt. [tr] to contain or cover, esp in order to protect
  29. 29. vt. [tr] to fit (a piece of wood) into a mortise, joint, etc
  30. 30. vt. [tr] [nautical] to secure or stow
  31. 31. vt. to secure (a topmast)
  32. 32. vt. to secure and stow (an anchor)
  33. 33. vt. [Etymology] Old English hus; related to Old High German hus, Gothic gudhus temple, Old Norse hus house

Examples

The institution will assess the house tax if you buy a new house.
这个机构在你买房时会征收购房税。
When they visit their friends they travel by back alleys from house to house.
在他们拜访朋友的时候,他们挨家挨户的沿着后巷步行。
the house against the church
教堂隔壁的房子
The house backs on a lake.
这所房子背朝湖。
to comb a house for a missing book
在屋子里到处寻找一本丢失的书

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