a small area of a room that is separated off by curtains or by thin or low walls(大房间分隔出的)小房间,隔间- a shower cubicle淋浴小单间
- (British English) a changing cubicle (= for example at a public swimming pool)更衣室隔间
- (especially North American English) an office cubicle办公室的隔间
- I don’t even know my colleague in the next cubicle.我连隔壁小隔间的同事都不认识。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjectivecubicle + nounverb + cubicleprepositionSee full entry Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘bedroom’): from Latin cubiculum, from cubare ‘lie down’.