hall

n. 门厅, 走廊, 会堂

hall

n.（名词）
A corridor or passageway in a building.
过道，走廊：一个建筑物中的过道或走廊
A large entrance room or vestibule in a building; a lobby.
大厅，前厅：一个建筑物中大的门厅；前厅


A building for public gatherings or entertainments.
娱乐中心：用于公众集会或娱乐的建筑物
The large room in which such events are held.
用于此类活动的大的房间
A building used for the meetings, entertainments, or living quarters of a fraternity, sorority, church, or other social or religious organization.
会所：用于集会、娱乐或为大学的兄弟会、姊妹会、教堂、别的社会或宗教组织提供住处的建筑


A building belonging to a school, college, or university that provides classroom, dormitory, or dining facilities.
讲堂，教室，宿舍，餐厅：学校、学院或大学中提供教室、宿舍或饮食便利的建筑物
A large room in such a building.
大房间：这样的建筑物中的一间大房子
The group of students using such a building:
学生：一群正在使用这样一所建筑的学生：
例句：
The entire hall stayed up late studying.
整所房子里的学生熬到很晚还在学习

Chiefly British A meal served in such a building.
【多用于英国】 公共食堂中的一餐：在这样的建筑物中的一顿饭
The main house on a landed estate.
府第：住宅区中的主房


The castle or house of a medieval monarch or noble.
宅邸：中世纪王公、贵族的城堡或房宇
The principal room in such a castle or house, used for dining, entertaining, and sleeping.
主厅，会客厅：这样的城堡、楼宇中的用于宴会、娱乐、睡眠的主要房间

来源：
Middle English halle [large residence]
中古英语 halle [大的住宅]
from Old English heall * see kel-
源自 古英语 heall *参见 kel-

<注释>Thehalls of academe and city hall remind us that what we commonly mean by the wordhall, .a passageway, an entrance room,. represents a shrunken version of whathall once commonly designated. Going back to the Indo-European rootkel- , .to cover,. the Old English wordheall, ancestor of our hall, referred to .a large place covered by a roof, whether a royal residence, an official building, or a large private residence, or a large room in a residencewhere the public life of the household is carried on..These senses and related ones are still in use,as is attested bytown hall and halls of academe. Our common use of the termhall for a vestibule or a corridor harks back to medieval times when the hall was the main public room of a residenceand people lived much less privately than now.As private rooms in houses took on the importance they have today,the hall lost its function.Hall also had come to mean any large room, and the vestibule was at one time one of the main sitting rooms in a house,but this sort of room has largely disappeared also,andhall has become the designation for the small vestibule of today as well as for an entrance passage or any passageway.
halls of academe 以及 city hall 提醒我们注意： 我们通常把hall 这个词定义为.走廊，门厅.， 反映出hall 这词当初设定时的通常含义的种种痕迹。 追溯到该词的印欧语词根kel- ， 意思是.去覆盖.， 我们hall 这个词的来源是古英语中 heall 这个词， 它指的是.一个有屋顶覆盖的大地方或者属于皇室住宅、政府建筑或是一座大的私人府第或者是一所住宅中的大房子，主人在其中进行社交活动.。这些概念或与之相关的意思直到今天还有，比如说town hall 和 halls of academe 。 我们现在一般所用的，把hall 当作门厅或走廊的用法可以追溯到中世纪， 那时大厅是居住者的最主要的起居室，人们生活还没有今天这么隐私化，于今日个人房间在生活中占主要地位，大厅失去了它当年的功用。Hall 还曾意味着大房间， 而门厅在过去一段时间内曾是房屋中主要的一处起居室，但这样的房子大部分也都消失了，而hall 的意思已经变成指那些当今小的走廊， 或者是进出口处的走廊，或者是随便哪个走廊