anteroom

noun

1. （尤指重要公共建筑的）前厅，接待室
   a room where people can wait before entering a larger room, especially in an important public building

1. N-COUNT 前厅;休息室;接待室
   An anteroom is a small room leading into a larger room.
   1. He had been patiently waiting in the anteroom for an hour.
      他在前厅耐心地等了一个小时。

1. He had been patiently waiting in the anteroom for an hour.
   他在前厅耐心地等了一个小时。
2. But each special room in Hong Kong also has an anteroom that is designed for the safe donning and removal of personal protection equipment, making them well-suited for coping with Ebola, Dr. Peiris said.
   但裴伟士说，香港的每一个专用隔离室都还有一个前厅，用来安全地穿脱防护装备，因此非常适合应对埃博拉疫情。
3. The toilet room and anteroom shall be large enough to safely manage the patient.
   门厅和厕所面积应满足病人安全管理。
4. Which one of us has not sat in some anteroom and watched the inscrutable panels of a door that was full of meaning?
   我们中谁没有在某个接待室里做过，眼睛盯着那扇含有各种各样可能性的莫测高深的门板？
5. On either side of the lounge were emergency rooms with cots, an anteroom, and a toilet room.
   两边的休息室是急诊室的床，一个接待室，一个厕所室。
6. They were waiting in an anteroom for interrogation.
   他们在接待室等候讯问。
7. Andrea reached the anteroom beyond the little drawing-room. Hours later I unlocked the door and crept downstairs.
   安德烈离开第二间客厅，溜进候见室里。过了几小时，我打开门，溜下了楼。
8. If the physician is busy when patients arrive, the nurse asks them to wait in the anteroom.
   如果病人来的时候医生很忙，护士就请他们去接待室等候。
9. In an anteroom he hastily opened his briefcase.
   在休息室里，他迅速地打开皮包。
10. One day, when the emperor had come to visit his uncle, the worthy cure, who was waiting in the anteroom, found himself present when his majesty passed.
    一天，皇帝来看他的舅父，这位尊贵的本堂神甫正在前厅候见，皇上也恰巧走过。
11. "Take these flowers into the anteroom or dressing-room," said the viscount;
    “把这些花搬到前厅更衣室去，”子爵说。
12. He cooled his heels for a full half-hour in the anteroom before the gentleman would see him.
    他在接待室里从冷板凳，足足等了半个钟头那位先生才肯接见他。
13. Leaving the elevator on the tenth floor, they stepped into the windowless anteroom.
    走出十楼的电梯间，他们走进了那间没窗子的接待室。
14. A lobby or an anteroom, as of a theater or hotel
    休息室，候客室如戏院或旅馆的休息室或接待室
15. The ministers waited for their meeting in the cabinet anteroom.
    部长们在内阁的前厅等着开会。
16. Hofer came in from the anteroom carrying several files and a couple of rolled-up maps under his arm.
    霍弗抱着几摞案卷，挟着两卷地图从接待室走了进来。
17. But if you believe, as I wrote last month, that radical innovations in management theory are increasingly infrequent, the anteroom of uncrowned visionaries would empty quickly.
    但如果你像我上月所写的那样，认为管理理论的革命性创新日益罕见，那么可供评选的思想家很快就会所剩无几。
18. No one in the office promised a quick answer to the matter. In an anteroom he hastily opened his briefcase.
    办公室没人答应对此事从速作答。在休息室里，他迅速地打开皮包。
19. But on hearing that Captain Henry had reappeared he jumped up and went out to the anteroom.
    可是一听说亨利上校又来了，他顿时跳起身，走进了会客室。

noun

1. a large entrance or reception room or area

   Synonym:    antechamberentrance hallhallfoyerlobbyvestibule