booth 英 [bu:ð]   美 [buθ]

booth

booth  英 [bu:ð] 美 [buθ]

n. 亭,间 

名词复数:booths 

a phone booth 电话亭
a polling booth, a voting booth 投票间

  • A booth is a temporary table, tent, or area that you set up in order to sell something. You might have a cupcake booth at a school craft fair, for example.
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  • n. 亭,间
  • 1. a phone booth

    电话亭

  • 2. a polling booth, a voting booth

    投票间

  • booth (n.) c. 1200, mid-12c. in place-names, "temporary structure of boards, etc.," especially a stall for the sale of goods or food or entertainment, at a fair, etc., from Old Danish boþ "temporary dwelling," from East Norse *boa "to dwell," from Proto-Germanic *bowan-, from PIE root *bheue- "to be, exist, grow." See also bower, and compare German Bude "booth, stall," Middle Dutch boode, Lithuanian butas "house," Old Irish both "hut," Bohemian bouda, Polish buda, some of which probably were borrowed from East Norse, some independently formed from the PIE root.
booth / buːð ; NAmE buːθ / noun 1 a small confined place where you can do sth privately, for example make a telephone call, or vote 不受干扰的划定空间(如电话亭、投票间等) a phone booth 电话亭 a polling/voting booth 投票间 see also photo booth , tollbooth 2 a small tent or temporary structure at a market, an exhibition or a fairground,where you can buy things, get information or watch sth 临时货摊(或放映棚等) 3 a place to sit in a restaurant which consists of two long seats with a table between them (餐馆中的)火车座,卡座 booth booths booth / buːð ; NAmE buːθ /
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