mid-14c., "chief residence of a lord," from Old French mansion "stay, permanent abode, house, habitation, home; mansion; state, situation" (13c.), from Latin mansionem (nominative mansio) "a staying, a remaining, night quarters, station," noun of action from past participle stem of manere "to stay, abide," from PIE *men- "to remain, wait for" (cognates: Greek menein "to remain," Persian mandan "to remain"). Sense of "any large and stately house" is from 1510s. The word also was used in Middle English as "a stop or stage of a journey," hence probably astrological sense "temporary home" (late 14c.).
雙語例句
1. The price tag on the 34-room white Regency mansion is ￡17.5 million.
那棟有34個房間的攝政時期的白色官邸報價為1,750萬英鎊。
來自柯林斯例句
2. He remains barricaded inside his heavily-fortified mansion.
他在自己防衛(wèi)森嚴(yán)的宅院里把自己與外界隔絕開來。
來自柯林斯例句
3. an 18th century country mansion
18世紀(jì)的鄉(xiāng)村宅第
來自《權(quán)威詞典》
4. The hotel has the splendour of a nineteenth - century mansion.