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单词 country house
释义
country house
noun[C]
mainlyUK
uk
/ˌkʌn.tri ˈhaʊs/us
/ˌkʌn.tri ˈhaʊs/
alargetraditionalhousein thecountryside,especiallyone that hasbelongedto the samefamilyfor manyyears:
（尤指多年属于同一家族的）乡间宅邸，祖宅，庄园
Through thetreeswe couldseeabeautifulGeorgiancountryhouse.透过树林，我们可以看到一处漂亮的乔治王时代的庄园。
picture of country house
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(Definition ofcountry housefrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofcountry house

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The entire series ought to find a place on everycountryhousebookshelf.
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And part of the fun of having acountryhousewas to visit everyone else's.
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Until recently, however, neither architectural nor social historians have paid all that much attention to the origins of thecountryhouse.
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Building and visiting houses kept many families busy, but what exactly did one do in acountryhouse?
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The polite tourist : four centuries ofcountryhousevisiting.
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One cannot help feeling that thecountryhouseis simply a place to be milked for the book they are writing.
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Certainly for most of the twentieth century thecountryhousewas regarded as a liability.
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The curse of thecountryhouseis their cost.
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In the early twentieth century the magic lantern, and then private cinemas, offered new forms of entertainment which made few demands on the skills ofcountryhousevisitors.
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We went laboriously through all the figures ofcountryhouseand agricultural estate expenditure, failing completely to find any point at which economy was possible.
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Sometimes they have to sell the contents of acountryhouse.
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I have in mind, for example, persons who own acountryhousewith, perhaps, 500 or 1,000 acres around it.
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Sometimes they are in a camp and sometimes they are in acountryhouse, where the inmates can be engaged on agricultural work.
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In other words, it is not only the house and its contents but the outdoor recreation which a visit to acountryhousecan provide.
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Or is an attempt made in a kind ofcountryhouseinterview to find what his underlying qualities of character are?
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