closet

• n. 壁橱；议事室，密室；小房间
• adj. 秘密的，私下的；空谈的
• vt. 把…关在私室中
• n. (Closet)人名；(法)克洛塞

来自close,关闭，-et,小词后缀。

1. a small room (or recess) or cabinet used for storage space

2. a toilet in England

3. a tall piece of furniture that provides storage space for clothes; has a door and rails or hooks for hanging clothes

4. a small private room for study or prayer

closet (n.)

late 14c., from Old French closet "small enclosure, private room," diminutive of clos "enclosure," from Latin clausum "closed space, enclosure, confinement," from neuter past participle of claudere "to shut" (see close (v.)). In Matt. vi:6 it renders Latin cubiculum "bedchamber, bedroom," Greek tamieion "chamber, inner chamber, secret room;" thus originally in English "a private room for study or prayer." Modern sense of "small side-room for storage" is first recorded 1610s.

The adjective is from 1680s, "private, secluded;" meaning "secret, unknown" recorded from 1952, first of alcoholism, but by 1970s used principally of homosexuality; the phrase come out of the closet "admit something openly" first recorded 1963, and lent new meanings to the word out.

closet (v.)

"shut up as in a closet" (originally usually for purposes of concealment or private consultation), 1680s, from closet (v.). Related: Closeted; closeting.

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

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 in your oven or refrigerator, and to the light that the dentist points at you.

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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

a walk-in closet

步入式衣帽间

牛津词典

Homosexuals in public life are now coming out of the closet.

公众人物中的同性恋者如今正逐步亮相。

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closet gays

不公开表明的同性恋者

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I suspect he's a closet fascist.

我怀疑他是秘密的法西斯分子。

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He was closeted with the President for much of the day.

他与总统闭门进行了几乎大半天的密谈。

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She had closeted herself away in her room.

她把自己关在房间里不见任何人。

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He is a closet Fascist.

他是个秘密的法西斯分子。

柯林斯高阶英语词典

...closet misogyny.

内心对女性的仇视

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However the marrying of one subnet per wiring closet is problematic.

不过结婚的每一个子网布线壁橱是有问题的.

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I don't have skeleton in my closet!

我没有什么不可告人的秘密!

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I think your fianc ? may have a few skeletons in his closet.

我觉得你的未婚夫还隐藏着一些见不得光的事没有告诉你.

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She went into the closet to wash her hand.

她去卫生间洗手.

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They remain at the bottom of my closet, a shrine to her memory.

这些鞋子留在我的衣橱下面, 是一种关于她的美好的记忆.

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He went to the water closet.

他上厕所去了.

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With water and iodine from the closet, he cleanses my lip.

用温水和碘从壁橱里, 他洗净我的嘴唇.

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It's just an old rag I had in the closet.

这只不过是我挂在壁橱里的旧衣服罢了.

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So she dumped all of the towels from the linen closet into the bathroom sink.

所以她把浴室柜中的所有毛巾都倒进浴室的洗手池中.

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Hang your coat in the closet.

把你的外套挂在壁橱里.

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We must guard against closet racists.

我们必须警惕隐蔽的种族主义者.

辞典例句

To get her centered, she walks into her closet, sits on the floor andgoes still stone.

为了找到正确的答案, 她走进浴室, 坐在地板上,“一动不动地保持静默. ”

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I definitely think more people are reaching in to the closet and selling their heirlooms.

问价的人很多,我肯定有更多的人在翻衣橱,然后卖掉自己的传家宝.

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I found your knife, hidden in old lady Bradley's closet.

我找到了你的刀, 藏在一个叫布拉德利的老妇人的橱柜里.

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Now he has it hidden away in a closet in his summer house.

现在他把这幅画放在避暑别墅的一个柜子里面藏了起来.

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Empty bottleslumbered the bottom of every closet.

每个储藏室的底部都零乱地堆积着空瓶子.

辞典例句

Tad Trenton : Except for the one in my closet.

泰德·特伦顿: 除了我壁橱里的那一个.

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This old coat has been knocking around the closet for years.

这件旧上衣闲置在衣橱里已有多年了.

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There is some shoeshine paper in the closet, sir.

先生, 衣橱里有擦鞋纸.

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I walked closer to the back of the closet and the light got a bit brighter.

我走路比较靠近的到壁橱的背面而且光变得比较明亮些.

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