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Bungalow Gujarati Bengal 10978.Bungalow 英 Bʌŋgələʊ]美 ˈbʌŋɡəˌlo 释义

正面 10978.bungalow
英 ['bʌŋgələʊ]美 [ˈbʌŋɡəˌlo]

背面
释义:
n. 平房;小屋
例句:
1. He had lent the bungalow to the Conrads for a couple of weeks.他把那间平房借给康拉德一家住了两三个星期。

谐音“半个楼”-------平房、小屋。
bungalow 平房词源同Bangladesh, 孟加拉国。指孟加拉人住的房子。
bungalowbungalow: [17] Etymologically, bungalow means simply ‘Bengali’. Banglā is the Hind word for ‘of Bengal’ (as in Bangladesh), and English borrowed it (probably in the Gujarati version bangalo) in the sense ‘house in the Bengal style’. Originally this signified any simple, lightly-built, usually temporary structure, which by definition had only one storey, but it is the one-storeyedness that has come to be the identifying characteristic.bungalow (n.)1670s, from Gujarati bangalo, from Hindi bangla "low, thatched house," literally "Bengalese," used elliptically for "house in the Bengal style" (see Bengal). Related: Bungaloid."

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