escritoire

1. Harry came down to breakfast to find the table set in the parlour as usual, but instead of sitting at the escritoire finishing up his morning letter, Malfoy was nowhere to be found.
   Harry下楼来吃早餐，餐桌仍和以往一样设在会客室里，但是他并没有看到清晨时一向在写字台前写信的Malfoy，反倒是哪儿都找不到他人。
2. The Manor house elves found it, smoothed it out and put it in one of the drawers of the parlour escritoire, along with a number of other similar pieces of parchment.
   庄园的家养小精灵发现了之后，把它弄平整了，放在了休息室的一个抽屉里，和其他同样的羊皮纸放在了一起。

noun

1. a desk used for writing

   Synonym:    secretarywriting tablesecretaire