bungalow: [17] Etymologically, bungalow means simply ‘Bengali’. Banglā is the Hind word for ‘of Bengal’ (as in Bangladesh), and English borrowed it (probably in the Gujarati version bangalo) in the sense ‘house in the Bengal style’. Originally this signified any simple, lightly-built, usually temporary structure, which by definition had only one storey, but it is the one-storeyedness that has come to be the identifying characteristic.
bungalow (n.)
1670s, from Gujarati bangalo, from Hindi bangla "low, thatched house," literally "Bengalese," used elliptically for "house in the Bengal style" (see Bengal). Related: Bungaloid.
雙語(yǔ)例句
1. He had lent the bungalow to the Conrads for a couple of weeks.
他把那間平房借給康拉德一家住了兩三個(gè)星期。
來自柯林斯例句
2. It was replica of the bungalow she had left.
房子仍是她離開時(shí)的模樣.
來自辭典例句
3. A bungalow is / Bungalowsare a type of house.
小平房是房子中的一種類型.
來自辭典例句
4. It turned out that his " country cottage " was an enormous bungalow.