lavatory
lavatory 英 [ˈlævətri] 美 [ˈlævətɔri]
n. 厕所，盥洗室
名词复数:lavatories
- A lavatory is a bathroom or a restroom. You should go to a restaurant's lavatory to wash your hands before dinner.
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- n. 厕所，盥洗室
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1. There’s an alcove with a small sink and mirror, and a door to the tiny, but private lavatory.
壁龛里有一个小小的洗脸盆和一面镜子，一扇门通往一个微型但私用的厕所间。
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2. His mute and illiterate mother, and her extended family, raised her two sons in a small flat in Algiers with neither a lavatory nor running water.
加缪的母亲沉默寡言、目不识丁，她和家人共同抚养两个儿子，住在阿尔及利亚的一套小公寓里，没有厕所也没有自来水。
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3. The following year, the city opened the world's largest public lavatory, which can accommodate 1, 000 people over four floors and which featured crocodile and Virgin Mary themed urinals.
第二年，重庆建造了世界最大的公共厕所，有四层楼，可以同时容纳1,000人如厕。 而小便器的样子也以鳄鱼和圣母为主题。
- lavatory (n.) late 14c., "washbasin," from Late Latin lavatorium "place for washing," noun use of neuter of Latin adjective lavatorius "pertaining to washing," from lavat-, past participle stem of lavare "to wash," from PIE root *leue- "to wash." Sense of "washroom" is first attested 1650s; as a euphemism for "toilet, W.C.," it is attested by 1864. Related: Lavatorial.
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