apartment

• n. 公寓；房间

apart,分开，-ment,名词后缀。

apartment (n.)

1640s, "private rooms for the use of one person within a house," from French appartement (16c.), from Italian appartimento, literally "a separated place," from appartere "to separate," from a "to" (see ad-) + parte "side, place," from Latin partem (see part (n.)). Sense of "set of private rooms in a building entirely of these" (the U.S. equivalent of British flat) is first attested 1874.

1. She went directly to Simon's apartment and knocked on the door.

她直奔西蒙的房间，敲了敲门。

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2. Gerome tried to talk her into taking an apartment in Paris.

杰罗姆试图说服她在巴黎买一套公寓。

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3. Stevens wrote him a note asking him to come to his apartment.

史蒂文斯给他写了张便条，请他去自己的公寓。

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4. The high and low-rise apartment blocks built in the 1960s are crumbling.

20世纪60年代建造的高低不一的公寓楼群正在逐渐破损坍塌。

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5. It would never do to have Henry there in her apartment.

亨利呆在她的公寓里怎么也不合适。

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