bungalow: [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.
中文解释
谐音“半个楼”-------平房、小屋。
实用例句
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。来自柯林斯例句
2. It was replica of the bungalow she had left.
房子仍是她离开时的模样.来自辞典例句
3. A bungalow is / Bungalowsare a type of house.
小平房是房子中的一种类型.来自辞典例句
4. It turned out that his " country cottage " was an enormous bungalow.
