The adjective is also spelled next-door. 形容词亦拼作 next-door。
- ADV 在隔壁
If a room or building is next door, it is the next one to the right or left.
- I went next door to the bathroom...
我去了隔壁的卫生间。 - She was next door at the time.
那时她就住隔壁。 - ...the old lady who lived next door...
隔壁老太太 - The flat next door was empty.
隔壁公寓没人住。 - Next door is also an adjective.
- She wandered back into the next door room...
她溜达着又回到了隔壁房间。 - The wires trailed through other parts of the HQ into a next door building.
线路穿过总部的其他地方,接入邻近的建筑。 - If a room or building is next door to another one, it is the next one to the left or right.
在…的隔壁 - The kitchen is right next door to the dining room.
厨房紧挨着餐厅。
- ADV 在隔壁
The people next door are the people who live in the house or flat to the right or left of yours.
- The neighbors thought the family next door had moved.
邻居们认为隔壁的那户人家已经搬走了。 - Next door is also an adjective.
- Our next door neighbour knocked on the door to say that our car had been stolen.
我们隔壁邻居敲门说,我们的车被偷了。
- PHRASE 邻家男孩/邻家女孩
If you refer to someone as the boy next door or the girl next door, you mean that they are pleasant and respectable but rather dull.
- He was dependable, straightforward, the boy next door...
他可靠、坦率,是邻家男孩那种类型。 - She was the girl-next-door type.
她是邻家女孩那种类型的。