motel
英 [məʊ'tel]
美[mo'tɛl]
- n. 汽车旅馆
- n. (Motel)人名;(德)莫特尔
词态变化
复数: motels;
助记提示
1、motor + hotel.
中文词源
motel 汽车旅馆
来自motor和hotel的合成词。
英英释意
- 1. a motor hotel
英文词源
- motel (n.)
- 1925, coined from motor- + hotel. Originally a hotel for automobile travelers.
The Milestone Interstate Corporation ... proposes to build and operate a chain of motor hotels between San Diego and Seattle, the hotels to have the name 'Motel.' ["Hotel Monthly," March 1925]
同义词辨析
hotel, inn, motel
这些名词都有"旅馆,客店"之意。
hotel: 指开设于城镇,有一定设备,可提供食宿的旅馆。
inn: 多指开设于乡间、路边,设备简陋的小旅店。
motel系motor hotel的混合缩写词,指美国开设于公路旁,专供驾驶汽车的旅客往宿和有停车场的旅店。
考试真题
- The motel was owned by the parents of Paula Pierce in 1960.
2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
- The note inside the bottle said, "Return to 419 Ocean Street and receive a reward of $150 from Richard and Tina pierce, owners of the Beachcomber Motel."
2018年6月四级真题(第二套)听力 Section A
- The car shaped some of the most lasting aspects of American culture: the roadside diner, the billboard, the motel, even the hamburger.
2018年高考英语浙江卷 阅读理解 阅读C 原文
实用场景例句
- They took as many people as could be accommodated in the small motel.
- 他们接纳了很多能住在这家小的汽车旅馆的人.
期刊摘选
- The motel man told Mr Brown that he would have to pay in advance.
- 汽车旅馆的人告诉布朗先生要先付款.
期刊摘选
- He more or less imprisoned himself in his motel room.
- 他把自己关在汽车旅馆的房间里,几乎足不出户.
期刊摘选
- Late that night he landed at a motel.
- 那晚他到了一家汽车旅馆.
《简明英汉词典》
- There is children's play area near the motel.
- 汽车旅馆旁边有一个供孩子们玩耍的运动场.
期刊摘选
- Luckily , they come across a motel with a TV to entertain them during their overnight stay.
- 旅馆的房间里只有一台电视机供他们打发时间.
期刊摘选
- He stayed one night in a motel and went on travelling.
- 他在一家汽车旅馆呆了一晚上,就又接着旅行了.
期刊摘选
- There is not any motel, not even an inn in the small village.
- 这小村子里没有汽车旅馆, 甚至连一家小客栈也没有.
期刊摘选
- I went back to the motel to phone Jane.
- 我回到汽车旅馆给简打电话.
辞典例句
- A: I think we should try to find a reasonable motel tonight.
- 我想今晚我们要设法找一个不太贵的汽车旅馆.
期刊摘选
- Can she sleep at the motel tonight?
- “她今晚会在旅馆住 吗 ?”.
期刊摘选
- Motel owners are much more interested in having full occupancy than getting their standard rate.
- 对汽车旅馆的老板而言,入住率远比标准房价重要.
期刊摘选
- Your paying for the coffee this time and m not stopping after this till the motel.
- 您的支付咖啡这个时候,我不会停止,直到后汽车旅馆.
期刊摘选
- Good thing is we can afford to stay in a motel.
- 这下可好了,我们住得起汽车旅馆了.
期刊摘选
- Think I'll stop by the motel and rinse off a bit before coming out. "
- 我想我先到旅店去冲个澡再出来. ”
英汉文学 - 廊桥遗梦
- Why don't you go two blocks over at the Mission Inn motel?
- 你为什么不搬到2个街区外的祢申汽车旅馆住?
电影对白
- I a motel for $ 3 a night.
- 我们住的是3美元一晚的汽车旅馆.
期刊摘选
- He stayed in a motel for one night went on with his journey the next day.
- 他在一家汽车旅馆住了一夜,第二天又继续他的旅程.
期刊摘选
- The sign outside the motel said " No Vacancies ".
- 汽车旅馆外的招牌显示 “ 客满 ”.
《简明英汉词典》
- She blamed the noisy motel room, but her sleeping did not improve at home.
- 她怪罪过停车旅馆里房间的喧闹, 但在自己的家中她的睡眠也不见改善.
中级百科部分
- Over breakfast at my motel, I fell into conversation with the owner of a hardware shop.
- 我在汽车旅店吃早饭时,和一位五金店的老板聊了起来。
柯林斯例句
- He took off at once and headed back to the motel.
- 他立刻离开,回到汽车旅馆。
柯林斯例句
- His abhorrence of racism led him to write The Algiers Motel Incident.
- 对种族主义的憎恨促使他写了《阿尔及尔汽车旅馆事件》一书。
柯林斯例句
- It was vital that he swallowed the story about Juanita being in that motel room that night.
- 关键是他对朱厄妮塔那晚住在那个汽车旅馆房间里一事毫不怀疑。
柯林斯例句
- Motel owners and restaurant managers copped it for neglecting their clients.
- 汽车旅馆老板和饭店经理因为冷落顾客而受到责骂。
柯林斯例句
- He put Elizabeth's motel bill and airfare on his expense account.
- 他将伊丽莎白住汽车旅馆的费用和机票费用记在他的报销账目中。
柯林斯例句
- The hotels are full up, and the guests have had to go to this dinky little motel way out on Stewart Avenue.
- 宾馆已经客满了,客人们不得不到斯图尔特街上这家偏远的小汽车旅馆里来。
柯林斯例句
- Should I go back to the motel and wait for you to telephone?
- 我要回汽车旅馆等你电话吗?
柯林斯例句
- She found a small, inexpensive motel on the outskirts of the town; it was barren and unlovely.
- 她在城郊找了一家便宜的小汽车旅馆,那旅馆既简陋又难看。
柯林斯例句
- Straight ahead were the low cabins of the motel.
- 正前方就是汽车旅馆的低矮小木屋。
柯林斯例句