Saloon

(n.) A spacious and elegant apartment for the reception of company or for works of art; a hall of reception, esp. a hall for public entertainments or amusements; a large room or parlor; as, the saloon of a steamboat.

(n.) Popularly, a public room for specific uses; esp., a barroom or grogshop; as, a drinking saloon; an eating saloon; a dancing saloon.

校对:诺艾尔

• Begging your pardon, ma'am, it wasn't a billiard saloon, but a gymnasium, and I was taking a lesson in fencing. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• I entered one of the palaces, and opened the door of a magnificent saloon. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• Inured now for so long a time to rooms with bare boards, black benchesdesks, and stoves, the blue saloon seemed to me gorgeous. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
• He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• What were you doing, sir, up in that billiard saloon? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• But finally Jack found an ice-cream saloon, and that closed investigations for that evening. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Fortunately there was another entrance to the drawing-room than that through the saloon where they were all seated at dinner. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The swing skylights above the saloon table had been a bit open, and they had fired on us through the slit. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• On reaching the house, they were shown through the hall into the saloon, whose northern aspect rendered it delightful for summer. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• The embarrassment from the liquor question which Woodrow Wilson feared does not arise because teetotaler and drunkard both become intoxicated when they discuss the saloon. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• More than this, they offer to the poor man an effective substitute for the saloon. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
• No, I was glad that you were not in the saloon, because I hope you never go to such places. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• When Darcy returned to the saloon, Miss Bingley could not help repeating to him some part of what she had been saying to his sister. 简·奥斯汀. 傲慢与偏见.
• For it was indeed that most respectable saloon, in which Prude and I were making an exhibition of our pretty persons, owing to the merest ignorance. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• The weather was very hot, it had been many a day since Jack had seen ice-cream, and so it was useless to talk of leaving the saloon till it shut up. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Tom Johnson saw this as Mayor of Cleveland; he knew that strict law enforcement against saloons, brothels, and gambling houses would not stop vice, but would corrupt the police. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.
• Under the spell of it men try to stop drunkenness by closing the saloons; when poolrooms shock them they call a policeman; if Haywood becomes annoying, they procure an injunction. 沃尔特·李普曼. 政治序论.

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