interior

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1 [countableC usually singular]IN/INSIDE the inner part or inside of something 内部；里面 OPP exterior

The interior of the church was dark.

教堂里很暗。

the car’s warm interior

车里很暖和

2 the interior SGthe part of a country that is farthest away from the coast 内地，腹地

The interior of the country is mainly desert.

这个国家的内陆地带主要是沙漠。

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the interior• Nearly 100 forest fires continued in the vast interior of Alaska.

3. Minister/Department of the Interior PGthe government minister or department that deals with matters within a country rather than abroad 内政部长/内政部

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Minister/Department of the Interior• Former officers at the camp were arrested after the revelations and the Deputy Minister of the Interior, Col.-Gen.• He had accused the Minister of the Interior and police chiefs of taking bribes from drug traffickers.• The Department of the Interior and many other federal and state natural resource agencies are moving toward this broader approach to conservation.

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interior• Aiming your light down into it, you can see right through the membrane to the cell interior.• My eyes gradually became accustomed to the gloomy interior of the store.• the car's leather interior• Almost no engine noise enters the car's interior.• Heat is trapped in the Earth's interior.• The rest of the interior had been very much altered over the years and little original work of consequence remained visible.• Mantle compositions that could yield both mare basalts and highland rocks are consistent with the constraints on the interior outlined earlier.• Worshippers will travel through the interior of the hill for an experience of rebirth out of the Goddess's belly.• The interior is now artificially lit and the appearance is impressive.• The interior was cozy but unheated.

interior2 adjectiveadj [only before noun]

IN/INSIDEinside or indoors 内部的；里面的；室内的 OPP exterior

The interior walls are all painted white.

室内墙壁都粉刷成了白色。

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interior• As an interior decorator, Paula Curry was a real professional.• In addition, he thought that the basic decor and interior space needed little change.• When my wife and I chose our Peugeot 405 it was for its comfort, performance and interior space.• The interior spaces were divided by peristyles bearing classical statuary, while other statues stood in the round-arched window spaces.• In brick churches the whole construction was of this material, though interior wall facings, capitals and columns were of marble.• The long, low church is decorated by paintings all over the exterior and interior walls, openings and window frames.

Origin interior2

(1400-1500) French intérieur, from Latin interior, probably from an unrecorded Latin interus “on the inside”