booth

noun
🔊/buːð/
🔊/buːθ/
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  1. a small place with walls or sides where you can do something privately, for example make a phone call or vote不受干扰的划定空间(如电话亭、投票间等)
    • a phone booth电话亭
    • a polling/voting booth投票间
    • an information/a ticket booth问询处;售票亭
    see also photo booth, tollboothTopics Buildingsc2
    Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective
    • DJ
    • photo
    • tanning
    preposition
    • in a/​the booth
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  2. a small tent or temporary structure at a market, an exhibition or a fairground, where you can buy things, get information or watch something临时货摊(或放映棚等)
    • The stalls and booths were doing a brisk trade.那些售货亭和临时摊位的生意很红火。
  3. a place to sit in a restaurant which consists of two long seats with a table between them(餐馆中的)火车座,卡座Topics Cooking and eatingc2
  4. (North American English) a place in a sports ground, theatre, etc. where the people who introduce or describe an event for radio or television sit
    • the announcer's/announce/announcing booth播音员/宣布/宣布摊位
    • Sportsnet has announced that Bob Cole will return to the broadcast booth for his final season of calling National Hockey League games.体育网已经宣布,鲍勃科尔将回到广播室,他最后一个赛季调用全国曲棍球联赛比赛。
    compare commentary box
  5. Word OriginMiddle English (in the sense ‘temporary dwelling or shelter’): from Old Norse buth, based on búa ‘dwell’.