新东方-柯林斯雅思备考词典

house

[ADJ, NOUN, VERB]

词汇频率：

ADJ. 形容词

1. 店酒（某餐馆没有列在酒水单上的最便宜的葡萄酒）
A restaurant's house wine is the cheapest wine it sells, which is not listed by name on the wine list.
双语例句
例：
Tweed ordered a carafe of the house wine.
特威德点了一瓶店酒。

NOUN. 名词

houses
1. [C 可数名词] 房屋
A house is a building in which people live, usually the people belonging to one family.
双语例句
例：
She has moved to a small house and is living off her meagre savings.
她搬进了一幢小房子，靠自己微薄的积蓄过日子。
2. [SING 单数型名词] 一家人 , 同住一幢房子的人
You can refer to all the people who live together in a house as the house.
近义词
household
双语例句
例：
If he set his alarm clock for midnight, it would wake the whole house.
如果他把闹钟设定在午夜，铃声会把全家人都吵醒。
3. [C 可数名词] …馆（用于某些类型的餐馆名称中）
House is used in the names of types of places where people go to eat and drink.
双语例句
例：
a steak house.
一家牛排馆。
4. [C 可数名词] …公司（用于某些类型的公司名称中，尤其是出版、贷款或服装设计等公司）
House is used in the names of types of companies, especially ones which publish books, lend money, or design clothes.
双语例句
例：
Many of the clothes come from the world's top fashion houses.
这些服装中有很多来自世界顶级时装设计公司。
5. [C 可数名词] （美国）众议院
You can refer to one of the two bodies of the US Congress as a House. The House of Representatives is sometimes referred to as the House.
双语例句
例：
Some members of the House and Senate worked all day yesterday.
昨天众议院和参议院的一些议员工作了一整天。

PHRASE. 习语

bring the house down
1. 博得全场喝彩
If a person or their performance or speech brings the house down, the audience claps, laughs, or shouts loudly because the performance or speech is very impressive or amusing.
双语例句
例：
It's really an amazing dance. It just always brings the house down.
这个舞蹈简直太精彩了。它总是博得全场喝彩。
like a house on fire
1. 一见如故
If two people get on like a house on fire, they quickly become close friends, for example because they have many interests in common.
双语例句
例：
I went over and struck up a conversation, and we got on like a house on fire.
我走过去搭讪聊天，我们一见如故。
on the house
1. 由店家免费提供的
If you are given something in a restaurant or bar on the house, you do not have to pay for it.
双语例句
例：
The owner knew about the engagement and brought them glasses of champagne on the house.
店主知道了他们订婚的事，便免费请他们喝了几杯香槟酒。
get your house in order , put your house in order , set your house in order
1. 把自己的事情处理妥当
If someone gets their house in order, puts their house in order, or sets their house in order, they arrange their affairs and solve their problems.
双语例句
例：
He's got his house in order and made some tremendous decisions.
他已把自己的事情处理好，并做出了一些重大决定。

VERB. 动词

houses , housing , housed
1. [T 及物动词] 为…提供住房
To house someone means to provide a house or apartment for them to live in.
双语例句
例：
homes that house up to nine people.
最多可容纳9人的住处。
2. [T 及物动词] 给…提供场地
A building or container that houses something is the place where it is located or from where it operates.
双语例句
例：
The building is open to the public and houses a museum of motorcycles and cars.
这座大楼对公众开放，并设有一个摩托车和汽车博物馆。
3. [T 及物动词] 供…居住
If you say that a building houses a number of people, you mean that is the place where they live or where they are staying.
近义词
accommodate
双语例句
例：
The building will house twelve boys and eight girls.
这栋房子要住12个男孩和8个女孩。