Word · Frequency #16017
cubicle
办公隔间；格子间
a small separate compartment in a room, especially in an office, where one person works
- 1.
A small separate part or one of the compartments of a room, especially in a work environment.
小隔间,尤指工作环境中的分隔区域
- 2.
small room in which a monk or nun lives
僧侣或修女居住的小房间
- 3.
A small enclosure at a swimming pool etc. used to provide personal privacy when changing.
游泳池等处供更换衣物时保护隐私的小隔间
- 4.
small individual study area in a library
图书馆中的小型个人学习区
- 5.
small area set off by walls for special use
用墙隔开的用于特殊用途的小区域
修道院小室；单人小室；更衣小隔间；更衣室；（图书馆的）自习隔间；读书小隔间；小隔间；小间；小隔间,尤指工作环境中的分隔区域
In use
She works in a small cubicle near the window.
Each patient has a private cubicle in the ward.
He studied in a library cubicle for hours.
in a cubicle
常用于描述办公室环境。
She spends most of her day working in a cubicle.
她一天大部分时间都在小隔间里工作。
a cubicle with
描述小隔间的特征。
He has a cubicle with a window.
他有一个带窗户的小隔间。
Common mistakes
I work in a cubical.I work in a cubicle.
混淆了名词“cubicle”与形容词“cubical”的拼写；应使用名词“cubicle”表示隔间。
Connections
Collocations
- office cubicle
- 办公室隔间
- She decorated her office cubicle with photos and plants.她用照片和植物装饰了自己的办公室隔间。
- cubicle farm
- 格子间办公区
- The new office layout is one large cubicle farm.新办公室的布局是一个巨大的格子间办公区。
- cubicle wall
- 隔间板墙
- You can hear everything through the cubicle walls.隔着隔间板墙，你什么都能听见。
- cubicle dweller
- 格子间职员
- As a cubicle dweller, he dreams of working remotely.作为一名格子间职员，他梦想着远程工作。
- cubicle partition
- 隔间隔板
- He hung his coat on the cubicle partition.他把外套挂在隔间隔板上。
Idioms & figurative uses
Learner notes
Memory Tip
cubicle像cube（立方体）加icle，想象办公室的格子间就是一个个小立方体。
Context & Register
语域：mixed 常见场景：办公环境、泳池或健身房更衣区、图书馆个人自习区、修道院中的单人小室 cubicle 通常为中性词，但最常说办公室里的格子间；在更衣室、图书馆、修道院等场合则属于较专门的用法。
Pronunciation & Spelling
No common word rhymes exactly with cubicle /ˈkjuːbɪkəl/. The words below are useful lookalikes with the same -icle spelling, but their stressed vowels differ, so they are not sound matches: article /ˈɑːrtɪkəl/, chronicle /ˈkrɑːnɪkəl/, particle /ˈpɑːrtɪkəl/, obstacle /ˈɑːbstəkəl/, miracle /ˈmɪrəkəl/, icicle /ˈaɪsɪkəl/.
Usage priority
Collins 词频等级为 1，建议结合例句记忆，而不是只背中文释义。
Learn the forms together
页面下方列出了常见词形变化。学习时注意它们在句子中的语法位置。
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