engine compartment• It detonated directly beneath U-494's engine compartment.• He'd opened the smashedengine compartment, and was pointing to where the battery wasn't.• Start off by cleaning down all the oily and greasybits - the engine compartment, undercarriage and control surfacehinges.• Two large side panels, which are removed by undoing two knots, cover each side of the engine compartment.• For example, closed circuittelevision gives the helmsman a view of the engine compartment and of the aftdeck of the boat.• The engine compartment is completely wax protected and the whole car has three layers of paint rather than two.
first-class compartment• He boarded the train for the overnightjourney and entered a first-class compartment with his first-classticket.• As it was early afternoon there were no maddingcrowds, and she secured a first-class compartment to herself.• He found an emptyfirst-class compartment, and she reached it by way of the corridor after the train had pulled out.• He always sat at the end of the second coach, in the small, first-class compartment with redplushseats.
Origincompartment
(1500-1600)Frenchcompartiment, from Italian, from compartire“to mark out into parts”
1section of a train火車車廂ADJECTIVE | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤first-class, second-class頭等/二等隔間▸➤non-smoking, smoking無煙/吸煙隔間▸➤baggage, luggage (especially BrE) 行李隔間➤driver's, passenger駕駛間;乘客隔間➤sleeping卧鋪隔間PREPOSITION➤in a/the compartment在隔間裏compartment
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2section of a container, etc.容器ADJECTIVE | VERB + COMPARTMENT | PREPOSITIONADJECTIVE➤separate獨立的隔層▸➤hidden, secret隱藏的隔層;暗隔▸➤battery, freezer, glove, storage電池箱;冷凍室;(汽車儀表板上放小物件的)貯物箱;貯藏間◇Your sunglasses are in the glove compartment.你的太陽鏡在貯物箱裏。➤overhead頭頂上方的行李箱➤watertight防水的隔層VERB + COMPARTMENT➤be divided into分成隔層◇The case is divided into four separate compartments.這個箱子分 4 個隔層。PREPOSITION➤in a/the compartment在隔層裏