houseguest的中文解释是‘在家过夜或暂住的来客’,在英美地区还有’在家过夜或暂住的来客’的意思,发音音标为[‘hɑjs^est],houseguest常被用作名词,在《中小学生词典》中,共找到33个与houseguest相关的释义和例句。
1.在家过夜或暂住的来客
例句:i find this place as fascinating as you do, but waking up with a dead dog as a houseguest makes me think perhaps it’s time to go.
翻译:我和你一样都觉得这地方不错 但醒来时有一头死狗成了访客 我想也该是时间走吧!。
来源:荷林斯高阶英汉词典
houseguest一般作为名词使用,在常见短语或俚语中出现较多。
1. Yeah, he’s been a houseguest of ours a few times. Shouldn’t be hard to get an address on him.
翻译:那家伙以前可是我们的常客 应该不难找。
2. in fact, i have my very first houseguest right here.
翻译:其实 我这里有一位重要访客 也是你的一位故人。
3. Do be a polite houseguest and go wash up, please, won’t you?
翻译:做个有礼貌的客人, 赶紧去洗洗吧,行吗?。
4. i’ll contact Shaw for back-up, but first i need to look in on our houseguest.
翻译:我联系肖来帮忙 不过我得先去看看我们的客人。
5. Something tells me people have a lot of questions about our houseguest.
翻译:大家对这位不速之客 想必都很好奇。
6. i have an… unexpected houseguest.
翻译:我有个 不速之客。
7. There must be somebody else who can use a houseguest.
翻译:肯定有什么其他人需要个客人。
8. So at dinner that night, our houseguest proceeds to stretch his arms up over his head, and say, “You know, Deb, now you’re really going to learn what’s important.
翻译:所以在那天的晚餐上, 我们的客人开始伸展他的双臂, 并且说,“你知道吗,黛布, 你现在真的要去学习什么是重要的。 。
9. So about a week after my surgery, we had a houseguest.
翻译:大约在我做完手术一个星期后, 家里来了一位客人。 。
10. The Baining people of Papua New Guinea speak of “awumbuk,” a feeling of lethargy that descends when a houseguest finally leaves.
翻译:新几内亚岛的拜宁人 会说 awumbuk 一种代表你家里的客人终于离开后 会逐渐减弱的没精打采的情绪 。
11. i know i’m not exactly a welcome houseguest these days, but we shouldn’t let our recent history overshadow our past.
翻译:我知道最近我不是个受欢迎的客人 但是不能让最近的阴影遮住我们的过去。
12. – My houseguest, Senator Fuller.
翻译:-到我家做客的,弗勒参议员。
13. You know my problem. We have this houseguest.
翻译:你知道我这边的问题,家里来了个贵客啊。
14. Dateline Los Angeles. Howard Hughes has a new houseguest.
翻译:霍华?休斯家来了一位不速之客。
15. And he is a houseguest living here rent free on a very generous grant from the Eduardo Saverin Foundation.
翻译:而他只是个免租房客 由爱德华多. 萨佛林基金慷慨赞助的房子。