booth

booth /buːð $ buːθ/ noun [countableC]

1 DTBa small partly enclosed place where one person can do something privately, such as use the telephone or vote 〔供一人打电话、投票等的隔开的〕小间

a voting booth

投票间

2 DLOa small partly enclosed structure where you can buy things, play games, or get information, usually at a market or a fair 〔市场或游乐场上的〕售货棚，摊位，摊档

a crafts booth

手工艺品摊位

3. DFTBa partly enclosed place in a restaurant, with a table between two long seats 〔餐馆内的〕雅座，火车座

Examples from the Corpus

booth• The election commission has therefore countermanded voting in several seats and ordered a re-poll in more than 1,000 booths.• C., which seemed to express the feelings of the entire booth.• They would frequently receive strange glances from those in other booths but she just ignored it.• a phone booth• But, in the privacy of the polling booth, cooler and more hard-headed calculations came into play.• Mulcahey pushed his way to a small booth in the rear.• He walked back toward the telephone booth through knots of drinking blacks.• It took three minutes for a plain-clothes policeman to reach the booths, but all were empty.• a ticket booth• The guy in the ticket booth had snake tattoos all over his arms and glasses held together with toothpicks and tape.

Origin booth

(1100-1200) From a Scandinavian language

Chinese

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