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in the backroom
backroom 作名词指进行私下讨论的密室，常与介词 in 连用。
The leaders met in the backroom to decide the matter.
领导们在密室里开会决定此事。
后房；密室
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后房；密室
the meeting place of a group of leaders who make their decisions via private negotiations
The leaders met in the backroom to decide the matter.
领导们在密室里开会决定此事。
场所后部附近的房间。
A room near the rear of a premises.
The union leaders met in a backroom to negotiate their new contract.
工会领导人在一间密室里谈判新合同。
No decision was made in the public meeting; everything happened in the backroom afterwards.
公开会议上没有做出任何决定；一切都在随后的密室里进行。
Several journalists tried to find out which politicians had gathered in that backroom.
几名记者试图查明哪些政界人士聚集在那间密室里。
backroom 作名词指进行私下讨论的密室，常与介词 in 连用。
The leaders met in the backroom to decide the matter.
领导们在密室里开会决定此事。
backroom 作定语修饰名词，表示“私下的、幕后的”，如 backroom deals（幕后交易）。
Backroom negotiations produced the final agreement.
幕后谈判产生了最终协议。
backroom 可用 of 短语说明属于哪个群体，表示该群体的核心决策地点。
The decision was made in the backroom of the party leadership.
这个决定是在党的领导层的密室里做出的。
Not this
The leaders met in backroom to decide the policy.
Use this
The leaders met in a backroom to decide the policy.
backroom 是可数名词单数，不能零冠词使用；泛指一间密室时需加 a，特指时用 the。
Not this
There are two backroom in this building.
Use this
There are two backrooms in this building.
backroom 的复数是 backrooms；two 后用复数形式，不能因为复合词而省略 -s。
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密室交易；私下协议
The contract was awarded through a backroom deal, not an open tender.
这份合同是通过幕后交易而非公开招标获得的。
秘密磋商；密室谈判
Salary disputes were often settled in backroom negotiations before the formal session.
薪资纠纷通常在正式会议之前通过秘密磋商解决。
幕后政治；密室政治
The party has been criticized for its reliance on backroom politics.
该党因依赖幕后政治而受到批评。
烟雾弥漫的密室
Many people suspect the real decisions are made in smoke-filled backrooms.
许多人怀疑真正的决定是在烟雾弥漫的密室里做出的。
幕后交易
The contract was awarded through a backroom deal.
这份合同是通过幕后交易获得的。
幕后智囊团
The backroom boys developed the strategy that won the election.
幕后智囊团制定了赢得选举的策略。
幕后政治
Voters are tired of backroom politics.
选民厌倦了幕后政治。
如果你不小心，在错误的地方穿出了现实，你就会进入后室。那里只有潮湿旧地毯的臭味、单黄色的疯狂、荧光灯最大嗡鸣时无尽的环境噪音，以及大约六亿平方英里随机分隔的空房间，让你困在其中。如果你听到附近有东西游荡，愿上帝保佑你，因为它肯定也已经听到了你。
This is the original 2019 post that created the Backrooms, a viral internet creepypasta about infinite empty rooms.
这是2019年的原帖，它创造了“后室”——一个关于无限空房间的病毒式互联网怪谈。
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back(后面)+room(房间)：想象领导们躲进后房密室，关起门私下谈判。
语域：neutral 常见场景：politics、business、behind-the-scenes talks 该词作名词时通常指领导人私下谈判的密室，多用于政治或商业语境；作定语修饰 deal、politics 等时，常见于新闻报道，表示“幕后的、不公开的”意味。整体语气中性，在正式与非正式场合都较自然。
这些词都以 -room 结尾，读作 /ruːm/，与 backroom 的后半部分读音相同；其中 classroom、bedroom、bathroom、storeroom 是含 room 的复合词，重音都在第一个音节。注意 broom 读作单音节 /bruːm/，重音结构与 backroom 不同；不要把 backroom 中的 back 按单词 back /bæk/ 重读。
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