hall

詳細解釋：

hall

n.（名詞）
A corridor or passageway in a building.
過道，走廊：一個建築物中的過道或走廊
A large entrance room or vestibule in a building; a lobby.
大廳，前廳：一個建築物中大的門廳；前廳

A building for public gatherings or entertainments.
娛樂中心：用於公眾集會或娛樂的建築物
The large room in which such events are held.
用於此類活動的大的房間
A building used for the meetings, entertainments, or living quarters of a fraternity, sorority, church, or other social or religious organization.
會所：用於集會、娛樂或為大學的兄弟會、姊妹會、教堂、別的社會或宗教組織提供住處的建築

A building belonging to a school, college, or university that provides classroom, dormitory, or dining facilities.
講堂，教室，宿舍，餐廳：學校、學院或大學中提供教室、宿舍或飲食便利的建築物
A large room in such a building.
大房間：這樣的建築物中的一間大房子
The group of students using such a building:
學生：一群正在使用這樣一所建築的學生：
例句：
The entire hall stayed up late studying.
整所房子裡的學生熬到很晚還在學習

Chiefly British A meal served in such a building.
【多用於英國】 公共食堂中的一餐：在這樣的建築物中的一頓飯
The main house on a landed estate.
府第：住宅區中的主房

The castle or house of a medieval monarch or noble.
宅邸：中世紀王公、貴族的城堡或房宇
The principal room in such a castle or house, used for dining, entertaining, and sleeping.
主廳，會客廳：這樣的城堡、樓宇中的用於宴會、娛樂、睡眠的主要房間

來源：
Middle English halle [large residence]
中古英文 halle [大的住宅]
from Old English heall * see kel-
源自 古英文 heall *參見 kel-

<注釋>Thehalls of academe and city hall remind us that what we commonly mean by the wordhall, .a passageway, an entrance room,. represents a shrunken version of whathall once commonly designated. Going back to the Indo-European rootkel- , .to cover,. the Old English wordheall, ancestor of our hall, referred to .a large place covered by a roof, whether a royal residence, an official building, or a large private residence, or a large room in a residencewhere the public life of the household is carried on..These senses and related ones are still in use,as is attested bytown hall and halls of academe. Our common use of the termhall for a vestibule or a corridor harks back to medieval times when the hall was the main public room of a residenceand people lived much less privately than now.As private rooms in houses took on the importance they have today,the hall lost its function.Hall also had come to mean any large room, and the vestibule was at one time one of the main sitting rooms in a house,but this sort of room has largely disappeared also,andhall has become the designation for the small vestibule of today as well as for an entrance passage or any passageway.
halls of academe 以及 city hall 提醒我們注意： 我們通常把hall 這個詞定義為.走廊，門廳.， 反映出hall 這詞當初設定時的通常含義的種種痕跡。 追溯到該詞的印歐語詞根kel- ， 意思是.去覆蓋.， 我們hall 這個詞的來源是古英文中 heall 這個詞， 它指的是.一個有屋頂覆蓋的大地方或者屬於皇室住宅、政府建築或是一座大的私人府第或者是一所住宅中的大房子，主人在其中進行社交活動.。這些概念或與之相關的意思直到今天還有，比如說town hall 和 halls of academe 。 我們現在一般所用的，把hall 當作門廳或走廊的用法可以追溯到中世紀， 那時大廳是居住者的最主要的起居室，人們生活還沒有今天這么隱私化，於今日個人房間在生活中占主要地位，大廳失去了它當年的功用。Hall 還曾意味著大房間， 而門廳在過去一段時間內曾是房屋中主要的一處起居室，但這樣的房子大部分也都消失了，而hall 的意思已經變成指那些當今小的走廊， 或者是進出口處的走廊，或者是隨便哪個走廊