Word · Frequency #24517
staffroom
教师休息室;教员室
a room in a school for teachers to use, for rest or work
- 1.
A room set aside for the use of staff.
专供员工使用的房间。
专供员工使用的房间。;教师室;教员室
In use
The teachers were discussing the exam results in the staffroom.
She left her lesson plan on the table in the staffroom.
New teachers often feel nervous when they first enter the staffroom.
in the staffroom
staffroom 是可数名词,复数形式为 staffrooms;表示“在教师室里”时用介词 in。
The science teachers were chatting in the staffroom.
科学课老师们正在教师室里聊天。
go to the staffroom
go to the staffroom 表示去教师室,staffroom 前通常用定冠词 the。
She went to the staffroom to make a phone call.
她去教师室打了个电话。
be the staffroom
be the staffroom 用于说明或确认某间房间是教师室。
The room at the end of the corridor is the staffroom.
走廊尽头的那个房间是教员室。
Common mistakes
There are three staffroom in our school.There are three staffrooms in our school.
“staffroom”是可数名词,在“three”后面必须用复数形式“staffrooms”,不能省略词尾的 -s。中文没有复数变化,所以学习者容易漏掉,但英语中可数名词表示多个时一定要加 -s 或 -es。
All the staffroom are going on strike.All the staff are going on strike.
“staffroom”指的是“教师休息室/教员室”这个房间,而不是“全体员工/教员”。指人时应该用集体名词“staff”。把“staffroom”当作“员工”是词义误用,因为“-room”特指场所。
Connections
Collocations
- staffroom gossip
- 教师休息室里的闲言碎语
- Staffroom gossip often spreads faster than official news.教师休息室里的闲言碎语往往比官方消息传得还快。
- staffroom notice
- 教师休息室公告
- The new timetable was pinned on the staffroom notice board.新课程表被钉在了教师休息室的公告栏上。
- staffroom coffee
- 教师休息室里的咖啡
- She poured herself a cup of staffroom coffee before the first lesson.上第一节课前,她给自己倒了一杯教师休息室里的咖啡。
- staffroom table
- 教师休息室的桌子
- The exam papers were left on the staffroom table.试卷被留在了教师休息室的桌子上。
- staffroom door
- 教师休息室的门
- He knocked on the staffroom door and walked in.他敲了敲教师休息室的门,然后走了进去。
Learner notes
Memory Tip
staff(教职员)+room(房间):教职员的房间,就是教师室。
Context & Register
语域:neutral 常见场景:school、workplace staffroom 多用于英式英语,通常指学校等场所中供教职员工休息或备课的房间;美式英语中更常说 teachers' lounge。该词属于中性词,正式和日常场合都可使用。
Pronunciation & Spelling
staffroom 在英式英语读 /ˈstɑːfruːm/,美式读 /ˈstæfruːm/。room、broom、groom 都含 /ruːm/ 音,彼此押韵;它们与 staffroom 后半部分同音,但 staffroom 重音在第一个音节,所以不是完整押韵。classroom、bedroom、bathroom 也以 -room 结尾,拼写相似,但重音在前半部分,读音与 staffroom 并不相同,注意别按拼写类推。
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。
Dictionary facts from ECDICT, WIKTIONARY.