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building

高中CET4CET6

英[ˈbɪldɪŋ]
美[ˈbɪldɪŋ]

基本释义

n.
建筑(物); 楼房
v.
建造; 创立; 发展(build的现在分词)

词性变化

实用例句

tall/old/historic buildings

高大 / 老 / 有历史意义的建筑物

牛津词典

the building of the school

学校的修建

牛津词典

There's building work going on next door.

邻居正大兴土木。

牛津词典

the building trade

建筑业

牛津词典

building materials/costs/regulations

建筑材料 / 费用 / 规章

牛津词典

They were on the upper floor of the building...

他们在这座建筑物的楼上。

Crowds gathered around the Parliament building.

人群聚集在议会大厦的周围。

He stumbled blindly on through the dark building.

他摸索着跌跌撞撞地穿过漆黑的建筑物.

《简明英汉词典》

The building was destroyed when the defective boiler exploded.

那个有毛病的锅炉爆炸时,那座楼被炸毁了.

《简明英汉词典》

Not content with his lot at Bell Labs, Shockley set out to capitalize on his invention.

因为不满意他在贝尔实验室的产量,萧克利出售了他的发明.

期刊摘选

All local farmers protested against building the new airport on their farm land.

当地农民抗议在他们的农田上建新飞机场.

《简明英汉词典》

The foundations of the building settled.

这房屋的地基下陷了.

《简明英汉词典》

Building the new railway appreciates the value of the land.

修建这条铁路提高了土地的价值.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

It costs much to build this kind of building.

这种建筑造价较高.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The villagers went at building a dam with a will.

村民们劲头十足地着手修一座水坝.

《简明英汉词典》

They ground this rock up for road building.

他们碾碎这些石头用来筑路.

《简明英汉词典》

I can't tell you exactly how much the building work will cost, but I can make an educated guess.

虽然我没法告诉你具体的修建费用, 但是我可以估计个八九不离十.

《简明英汉词典》

He believed that in building socialism it was necessary to make thorough plans on behalf of the state.

他认为搞社会主义,要替国家好好打算盘.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The library is housed in a fine building.

图书馆设在一座漂亮的大楼里.

《简明英汉词典》

The construction of that big building is completed.

大厦落成.

《现代汉英综合大词典》

The frightened stampeded from the burning building.

惊惶失措的人群从失火的大楼中奔窜出来.

《现代英汉综合大词典》

Climbing plants had grown over the walls, giving the building an appearance much more ancient than it was.

攀缘植物爬满了墙壁, 使这栋建筑物显得更加古老.

《简明英汉词典》

The external features of the building are very attractive.

这座建筑物的外观是很吸引人的.

《简明英汉词典》

Living in a high building tends to insulate us from the real life of the city.

住在高楼大厦中容易使我们与城市的现实生活相隔绝.

《简明英汉词典》

The building is the symbol of eastern building.

这座建筑物是东方建筑的象征.

《简明英汉词典》

They fronted the building with red bricks.

他们用红砖作这个建筑物的正面.

《简明英汉词典》

真题例句

The boot time is pretty fast, and he navigates through (浏览 ) a few chapters before swiping into a fully rendered 3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Matt Maclnnis describes the updated version of Inkling asa platform for building multimedia content.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

a platform for building multimedia content.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

That lets us avoid building costly plants or buying expensive power at peak usage time

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

It embraces district-sanctioned magnet schools, such as the Talented and Gifted School, with 198 students, and the Science and Engineering Magnet,with383,which share a building in Dallas, as well as the City Honors School in Buffalo, N.Y., which grew out of volunteerevening seminars for students.

出自-2012年6月阅读原文

carbon emissions come from heating, cooling and powering our homes, offices and other buildings.

出自-2010年6月阅读原文

Directions to the classroom building.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

Well, I'm in Room 302 of the Gregory Building.

出自-2014年6月听力原文

City officials cooperated with the 4-H members in planting trees, building cooking facilities, pick-me tables, swings and public rest rooms.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

It has high buildings on both sides.

出自-2013年6月听力原文

Just this morning, I've been working extra hours all week, you know the building opens tomorrow

出自-2012年12月听力原文

The building won't open until next week

出自-2012年12月听力原文

One of the greatest heartbreaks for fire fighters occurs when they fail to rescue a child from a burning building because the child, frightened by smoke and noise, hides under a bed or in a closet and is later found dead.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

Why do some children trapped in a burning building hide from masked fire fighters

出自-2010年12月听力原文

At the top of the building, animal control officers put cat food in traps and captured the raccoon.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

Building a neon sign is an art practiced by professionals trained on the job to mold glass tubes into decorative shapes and letters.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Building on a child's ability to feel joy, rather than pushing it aside, wouldn't be that hard.

2015年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

But I would have enjoyed spending my evenings in that environment, discussing new ideas, building a new world.

2017年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section C

Changing building codes, evolving tastes, and the high cost of maintaining those wonderful old signs have businesses embracing LEDs, which are energy efficient, but still carry great cost.

2018年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Imagine a world where building the tallest skyscraper wasn't a race of height, but rather one to collect the most solar energy.

2018年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

In 2014 City Hall developed a plan to knock down the building and replace it with affordable housing.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

In one the focus could be on building financial success and personal achievement, in another on creating a better work/life balance, still another on exploring and understanding options more fully, or becoming an independent producer, yet another on makin

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

It's about an hour outside Seoul, built on reclaimed tidal flats along the Yellow Sea, There's a Coast Guard building and a tall trade tower, as well as a park, golf course and university.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

It's all built in this white stone and some walls of the building are decorated with jewels.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

Just building a place as an "international business district" doesn't mean it will become one.

2019年12月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Office managers knock down walls to encourage team building.

2017年6月四级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

On Tuesday, the raccoon slowly climbed the building.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

That's why leaders continue to manage the present while building toward the big changes of the future.

2017年6月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

The animal made it to the roof of the building, after it took a long break on a 17th floor window edge.

2019年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The building is very tall and there are gardens and a wall around it all.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section B

The building was reportedly purchased by a neighboring church in 2011.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The fire department of New York says the vacant 100-year-old building being pulled down partially collapsed.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

The man was collecting building materials when the first floor collapsed underneath him.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A

There were some people inside the building when the fire broke out but there were no reports of any injuries.

2018年12月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section A

These sauces—bechamel, veloute, espagnole and allemande—formed the central building blocks for many French main courses.

2018年12月四级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

These stages will span sectors, take people to different cities, and provide a foundation for building a wide variety of skills.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

They would be allowed to send groups of self-driving cars on cross- state road trips, and even set up on-demand fleets of self-driving cars, like the one General Motors and Lyft are building.

2019年6月四级真题(第一套)阅读 Section A

Until then, no one really understood what a motorway was, not even the labourers who were building it.

2016年6月四级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

There appeared more and more Roman-style buildings.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

Morgan said those findings—which included data from the system's 13 community colleges, 27 technical colleges and six universities—were part of the decision not to move forward with Governor Bill Haslam's proposal to privatize management of state buildings in an effort to save money.

出自-2017年6月阅读原文

And there is more to the story, because not only are the devices that house incandescent bulbs shaped to their underlying characteristics, but rooms and entire buildings have been designed in accordance with how incandescent lighting reflects off walls and windows.

出自-2015年12月阅读原文

So we need to "design for productive failure" by building it into the learning process.

出自-2013年12月阅读原文

Corporations in Germany realized that there was an interest to be served economically and patriotically in building up a skilled labor force at home; we never had that ethos (风气)," says Richard Sennett, a New York University sociologist who has written about the connection of craft and culture.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Smith has written a breezy guidebook, with a series of short chapters dedicated to specific aspects of urbanity - parks, say, or the various schemes that have been put forward over the years for building the perfect city

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

The city is the building block of civilisation and of almost everything people do; a guidebook to the city is really, therefore, a guidebook to how a large and ever-growing chunk of humanity chooses to live.

出自-2013年6月阅读原文

Wisconsin has a "laserlike focus" on building up student skills in the first three months, according to vice provost (教务长) Damon Williams.

出自-2011年6月阅读原文

It is almost impossible to imagine our society without thinking of the extraordinary achievements of scientists and engineers in building our complicated world.

出自-2010年12月阅读原文

Didn't I see you going into the administration building this afternoon?

出自-2014年6月听力原文

But I hear her apartment building is about to place a ban on pet animals.

出自-2013年12月听力原文

Mary will not be able to keep a dog in the building

出自-2013年12月听力原文

An employee asked, "Would the new system create long lines to get into the building like the lines in the airport security checks?

出自-2012年12月听力原文

I know these are tide times," she added, "but everyone agrees on the importance of safeguarding our employees and members of the public who come into the building

出自-2012年12月听力原文

When those were finished, she concluded the session with a brief restatement of how the new system would improve security and peace of mind in the municipal building.

出自-2012年12月听力原文

The new security plan for the municipal building

出自-2012年12月听力原文

How to cope with the huge crowds of visitors to the municipal building

出自-2012年12月听力原文

The man is the manager of the apartment building.

出自-2010年12月听力原文

It's located in a quiet building and it's close to bus lines

出自-2010年12月听力原文

According to the company's CEO, Rose Marcario, this is about building a company that cares about the environment.

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

All of those specialized bulbs led to the building of specialized light fixtures, from the desk lamp you study by, to the ugly but beloved hand-painted Chinese lamp you inherited from your grandmother, to the ceiling fixture in your closet, to the light i

2015年12月六级真题(第一套)阅读 Section B

Anytime you’re repairing or building muscle.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Brittleness remains a problem when building steel structures in cold conditions, such as oil rigs in the Arctic.

2019年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section A

Building on a Soviet-era foothold, Russia is expanding its monitoring stations for Glonass, its version of the Global Positioning System GPS.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Exclusivity, more familiar in the world of high fashion, has reached the kitchen: Robinson&Cornish, a British manufacturer of custom-made kitchens, offers a Georgian style one which would cost £145,000-155,000—excluding building, plumbing and electrical w

2016年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

Extreme athletes expend lots of energy breaking down and repairing and building muscles.

2019年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

For instance, new technologies that are building upon existing technology have not found their footing well enough to appeal to a mass audience, because, in many cases, they need to work effectively with other devices to realize their full appeal.

2016年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

For other companies interested in reducing waste, helping the environment, and providing the sustainable lifestyles that consumers seek, here are some first steps for building a relationship with customers that focuses on recycling and restoring value to

2019年6月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

If, for example, building codes included green construction guidelines, most developers would be too lazy to challenge them.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It is a movement building steady momentua call to make research data, software code and experimental methods publicly available and transparent.

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

It is building its second ice-breaking ship and setting up research drilling operations on an ice dome 13,422 feet above sea level that is one of the planet's coldest places.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Merian was correct about the giant bird-eating spiders, ants building bridges with their bodies and other details.

2018年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section B

Online security cameras, intelligent lighting and a wealth of sensors that control both temperature and air quality are offering an unprecedented level of control, efficiency, and improvements to what were once classed necessary costs when running a busin

2017年12月六级真题(第二套)阅读 Section C

The area's ship building tradition, partly established by the Vikings, also meant that sophisticated carpentry was a major aspect of the local culture.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

The main building is topped with a Georgian tower with four sculptures of the mythical winged horse, the magazine's corporate logo.

2018年6月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Therefore, team building may be necessary in order to improve the group's performance.

2015年12月六级真题(第二套)听力 Section B

They also, however, use far more natural resources—fuel, water all those baths and golf courses and building materials.

2016年6月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

This leads to building a brand of underconfident, suBMIssive, low-impact non-leaders and hampers their growth and career advancement.

2019年12月六级真题(第一套)听力 Section C

Yong Yu, a Chinese microbiologist, showed off the spacious building, with empty desks under an illustrated timeline detailing the rapid growth of China's Antarctic operations since the 1980s.

2016年12月六级真题(第三套)阅读 Section B

Actually, there's something interesting to see in every corner of Paris: the old buildings, neighborhoods, and the historical monuments.

2017年高考英语浙江卷(11月) 听力 原文

Advanced lights, motors, and building designs have helped save a lot of energy and therefore prevented pollution.

2014年高考英语全国卷2 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

After climbing up a hill for a panoramic view of the blue sea, white buildings and green olive trees, I paused to catch my breath and then positioned myself to take the best photo of this panorama.

2017年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

After investing more than $1 million in reconstructing the building, we began producing a full season of theater performances, Jazz concerts, and year-round arts education programs in 2008.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 填空题 原文

All across the country, recovery centers have begun building healing gardens.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Another simple way of building some savings is by depositing as little as two percent of your monthly income into a savings account.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

As they left student life behind, many had a last drink at their cheap but friendly local bar, shook hands with longtime roommates, and moved out of small apartments into high buildings.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 完形填空 原文

At Pullman's signal, each man turned his Jackscrew the same amount at the same time, thereby raising the building slowly and evenly.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Bonn has now tested this idea by building small sleds and dragging heavy objects over sand.

2015年高考英语四川卷 阅读理解 阅读E 原文

Bradford sold the building and land to a local development firm, which plans to build a shopping complex on the land where the theater is located.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Building owners were faced with a choice: either change the first floors of their buildings into basements, and the second stories into main floors, or hoist the entire buildings to meet the new street level.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Building snowmen helped people develop their skill and thought.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

Building snowmen was a way for people to express themselves.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读A 选项

Building up a dream team is more complex than simply hiring the best talent.

2019年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 七选五 原文

But what about large, heavy structures like the Tremont hotel, which was a six-story brick building?

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

By painting buildings white, cities may slow down the warming process.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

Chengdu has dozens of new millionaires, asia's biggest building, and fancy new hotels.

2016年高考英语全国卷1 语法填空 原文

Dario's mother asked the building superintendent (管理员) if he knew anything about it.

2015年高考英语北京卷 完形填空 原文

Dudok alone shaped most century Hilversum and approximately 75 buildings still bear his unique characteristics.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Duiker placed hundreds of remarkable buildings in Hilversum.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

He rushed into the station building and came back with a signal light.

2016年高考英语浙江卷(10月) 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

He was also a major player in training others in the art of canal planning and building.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Hospital patients who see tree branches out their window are likely to recover at a faster rate than patients who see buildings or sky instead.

2019年高考英语全国卷I 阅读理解 七选五 原文

In Julius Caesar, for example, Cassius's sly provocation of Brutus to take up arms against Caesar was the basis for a discussion of methods of team building and grass roots organising.

2015年高考英语上海卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

It consists of approximately 75 buildings.

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 选项

It separated the building from its foundation.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

Many buildings on the campus are his original creations.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Many visitors were amazed by the complex architectural space and abundant building types.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Migrating at night, birds tend to collide with brightly lit tall buildings.

2015年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

Residential buildings must maintain an atmosphere that supports the academic mission of the university.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Self expression there are many ways to express thoughts and ideas –music, acting, drawing, building, photography.

2014年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 七选五 原文

Small wood-frame buildings could be lifted fairly easily.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Some buildings also have heat detectors on the ceilings.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Students living in buildings that have kitchens are only permitted to cook in the kitchen.

2015年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

Teenagers climbed dozens of flights of stairs to deliver water and food to elderly people trapped in powerless high-rise buildings.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

The building has a remarkable shape and looks like a combination of "blocks".

2015年高考英语湖北卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The café is located upstairs in building 1 and is open daily until one hour before pacific science center closes.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The curves of the buildings perfectly match the rise and fall of hills, forming a unique view.

2018年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读C 原文

The floors of all campus buildings are equipped with manual fire alarm systems which include fire alarm pull stations and pipes.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The lockers are located in building 1 near the information desk and in building 3.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

The people trapped in high-rise building.

2016年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读B 选项

The problem in building a healthy relationship.

2018年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

The store is located upstairs in Building 3 right next to the laster dome.

2017年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

There is really no space for any more new buildings in the town.

2016年高考英语上海卷 听力 原文

There is, however, a second less known type of volcano that doesn't involve mountain building.

2019年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

They inspect all campus buildings and test and maintain all sprinkler(喷水灭火装置) systems fire alarms.

2018年高考英语天津卷 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

They take their driverless car to an appointment and set the empty vehicle to circle the building to avoid paying for parking.

2018年高考英语北京卷 阅读理解 阅读D 原文

This included digging up the road, laying the track and then building a strong roof over the top.

2017年高考英语全国卷2 语法填空 原文

This of course created a new problem: dirt practically buried the first floors of every building in Chicago.

2015年高考英语湖南卷 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Though the movie is 30 years old, most of the 250 seats were filled with teary-eyed audience wanting to say good-bye to the old building.

2017年高考英语全国卷3 阅读理解 阅读B 原文

Well before the arrival of freezers, there was a demand for ice for food preservation and catering, malcolm will explain the history of importing natural ice and the technology of building ice wells, and how London's ice trade grew.

2015年高考英语全国卷1 阅读理解 阅读A 原文

White paint is usually safe for buildings.

2017年高考英语江苏卷 阅读理解 阅读D 选项

Aerial surveys locate general areas of interest or larger buried features, such as ancient buildings or fields.

出自-2014年考研阅读原文

A series of fires and overcrowded conditions led to the construction of the existing Treasury Building.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

As Moritz puts it, how often are federal dollars building homes that are likely to be lost to a wildfire?

2017年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Building on this basic truth about interpersonal influence, the researchers studied the dynamics of social influence by conducting thousands of computer simulations of populations, manipulating a number of variables relating to people's ability to influen

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Construction took 17 years as the building slowly rose wing by wing.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Despite variations in detail, wholesale markets in the countries that have been closely examined—France, Germany, Italy and Spain—are made out of the same building blocks.

2010年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In 1866, the construction of the North wing of the Treasury Building necessitated the demolition of the State Department building.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In December of 1869, Congress appointed a commission to select a site and prepare plans and cost estimates for a new State Department Building.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

In the 1930s Frank Lloyd Wright started building more modest and efficient houses-usually around 1,200 square feet-than the spreading two-story ones he had designed in the 1890s and the early 20th century.

2011年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

More recently, while examining housing construction, the researchers discovered that illiterate, non-English- speaking Mexican workers in Houston, Texas, consistently met best-practice labor productivity standards despite the complexity of the building in

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

The building has housed some of the nation's most significant diplomats and politicians and has been the scene of many historic events.

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The Conservatives' planning reform explicitly gives rural development priority over conservation, even authorising "off-plan" building where local people might object.

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The eisenhower Executive Office Building commands a unique position in both the national history and the architectural heritage of the United States.

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The State, War, and Navy Building, as it was originally known, housed the three Executive Branch Departments most intimately associated with formulating and conducting the nation's foreign policy in the last quarter of the nineteenth century and the first

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

They do so best where building sticks to their edges and respects their character.

2016年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

To combat the trap of putting a premium on being busy, Cal Newport, author of Deep work: Rules for Focused Success in a distracted World, recommends building a habit of "deep work"—the ability to focus without distraction.

2018年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

To the horror of some who expected a Greek Revival twin of the Treasury Building to be erected on the other side of the White House, the elaborate French Second Empire style design by Alfred Mullett was selected, and construction of a building to house al

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

Waiting lists increase all the time and we are simply not building enough new homes.

2014年考研真题(英语二)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

We are fortunate that is it, because building new educational systems there and putting enough people through them to improve economic performance would require two or three generations.

2009年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

When the EEOB was finished, it was the largest office building in Washington, with nearly 2 miles of black and white tiled corridors.

2018年考研真题(英语一)阅读理解 Section Ⅱ

英英释义

Noun
  • 1. a structure that has a roof and walls and stands more or less permanently in one place;

    "there was a three-story building on the corner"

    "it was an imposing edifice"

  • 2. the act of constructing or building something;

    "during the construction we had to take a detour"

    "his hobby was the building of boats"

  • 3. the commercial activity involved in constructing buildings;

    "their main business is home construction"

    "workers in the building trades"

  • 4. the occupants of a building;

    "the entire building complained about the noise"

同义词辨析

building, structure

这两个名词都表示"建筑物"之意。

  • building: 普通用词,指任何建筑物,但不涉及建筑物的大小、风格以及所用材料。
  • structure: 侧重建筑物的构造形式。

house, building, dwelling, shelter, habitation, home, residence

这些名词均含有"居住处"之意。

  • house: 中性词,泛指一切供居住的建筑物,尤指适合一家一户居住的房屋。
  • building: 泛指一切建筑物,不限于居住的房子。
  • dwelling: 正式用词,仅指人们居住的任何建筑物。
  • shelter: 可指长期或临时的住处,也指简陋或临时搭建的躲避风雨的场所。
  • habitation: 指长久或固定的住所或居住地。
  • home: 指永久住家时,带有家庭所特有的温暖、情感等气息。
  • residence: 指大而堂皇的寓所或公馆,也指法律上的居住点。

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