cabinet

英 ['kæbɪnɪt] 美['kæbɪnət]

英英释义考试真题实用场景例句

近义词advisory council administration ministry board assembly committee panel group brain trust

n. 内阁；橱柜；展览艺术品的小陈列室
adj. 内阁的；私下的，秘密的

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中文词源

cabinet 柜子，内阁

cabin, 小屋。-et, 小词后缀。引申义在小屋子里开会，内阁。

词态变化

复数: cabinets;

英文词源

cabinet (n.): 1540s, "secret storehouse, treasure chamber," from Middle French cabinet "small room" (16c.), diminutive of Old French cabane "cabin" (see cabin); perhaps influenced by (or rather, from) Italian gabbinetto, diminutive of gabbia, from Latin cavea "stall, stoop, cage, den for animals" (see cave (n.)).

Meaning "case for safe-keeping" (of papers, liquor, etc.) is from 1540s, gradually shading to mean a piece of furniture that does this. Sense of "private room where advisors meet" (c. 1600) led to modern political meaning (1640s); perhaps originally short for cabinet council (1630s); compare board (n.1) in its evolution from place where some group meets to the word for the group that meets there.

双语例句

1. This issue, more than any other, has divided her cabinet.: 主要是这一问题使她的内阁产生了分歧。

2. Cabinet Ministers are selfishly pursuing their own vested interests.: 内阁大臣们正在自私地追逐他们自己的既得利益。

3. The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.: 在唐宁街进行了长达3个小时的内阁会议后发布了这份公告。

4. He is one of the most hawkish members of the new cabinet.: 他是新内阁中鹰派色彩最浓的成员之一。

5. All together there are six new faces in the cabinet.: 内阁现在共有6张新面孔。

英英释意

1. a cupboard-like repository or piece of furniture with doors and shelves and drawers; for storage or display

2. persons appointed by a head of state to head executive departments of government and act as official advisers

3. a storage compartment for clothes and valuables; usually it has a lock

4. housing for electronic instruments, as radio or television

考试真题

There was a time when any personal information that was gathered about us was typed on a piece of paper and locked away in a file cabinet.

The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourists when in 1744 he described himself as being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which once gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relics.

Yet neither Barack Obama nor Mitt Romney promotes himself as tool-savvy (使用工具很在行的) presidential timber, in the mold of a Jimmy Carter, a skilled carpenter and cabinet maker.

He made a stupid decision at the cabinet meeting.

实用场景例句

kitchen cabinets: 橱柜

a medicine cabinet: 药柜

The china was displayed in a glass cabinet.: 瓷器陈列在玻璃柜里。

a cabinet meeting: 内阁会议

(British English)the shadow Cabinet (= the most important members of the opposition party): 影子内阁（反对党中最重要的成员）

(British English)a cabinet minister: 内阁阁员

The star of my medicine cabinet is the humble aspirin...: 我家药柜里的压箱宝要算是那不起眼的阿司匹林。

He looked at the display cabinet with its gleaming sets of glasses.: 他看着陈列柜,里面摆着几套晶莹剔透的玻璃杯。

The announcement came after a three-hour Cabinet meeting in Downing Street.: 在唐宁街进行了长达3个小时的内阁会议后发布了这份公告。

...a former Cabinet Minister.: 前内阁大臣

The minister appealed to the Cabinet not to target her comparatively tiny budget of ￡4 billion.: 那位部长呼吁内阁不要以她40亿英镑这样相对小额的预算为批评目标.

I keep my collection of old china in the cabinet.: 我把古瓷器收藏品存放在橱子里.

The Cabinet met to resolve the crisis.: 内阁开会,寻求解决危机的办法.

The prime minister reshuffled his Cabinet yesterday.: 昨天首相改组了内阁.

The sudden summoning of the Cabinet underlines the seriousness of the situation.: 内阁会议的突然召开,突出了局势的严重性.

He obtained a government position through interest with a cabinet minister.: 他靠内阁中一部长的力量而谋得一公职.

He handed in his resignation right after the cabinet meeting.: 内阁会议一开完,他就提出了辞呈.

The previous cabinet went out of power in 1989.: 前内阁在1989年下台.

The cabinet meets tomorrow to discuss this problem.: 内阁明天将举行会议讨论这个问题.

The cabinet are agreed by the Prime Minister.: 内阁成员和首相的意见一致.

The Prime Minister eventually decided against reshuffling the Cabinet.: 首相最终决定反对改组内阁。

This issue, more than any other, has divided her cabinet.: 主要是这一问题使她的内阁产生了分歧。

Sunscreen can lose its potency if left over winter in the bathroom cabinet.: 如果把防晒霜在盥洗室的壁橱里放一个冬天，就有可能失效。

All together there are six new faces in the cabinet.: 内阁现在共有6张新面孔。

He has carried out a partial cabinet reshuffle.: 他对内阁进行了部分改组。

Two cabinet ministers also got the push.: 两位内阁大臣也被撤职了。

The task force is comprised of congressional leaders, cabinet heads and administration officials.: 工作小组由国会领导人、内阁首脑和行政官员组成。

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