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n. 大厦, 宅邸



    mansion
    [ noun ]
    1. (astrology) one of 12 equal areas into which the zodiac is divided

    2. <noun.location>
    3. a large and imposing house

    4. <noun.artifact>


    Mansion \Man"sion\, v. i.
    To dwell; to reside. [Obs.] --Mede.


    Mansion \Man"sion\, n. [OF. mansion, F. maison, fr. L. mansio a
    staying, remaining, a dwelling, habitation, fr. manere,
    mansum, to stay, dwell; akin to Gr. ?. Cf. {Manse}, {Manor},
    {Menagerie}, {Menial}, {Permanent}.]
    1. A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or
    other shelter. [Obs.]

    In my Father's house are many mansions. --John xiv.
    2.

    These poets near our princes sleep,
    And in one grave their mansions keep. --Den?am.

    2. The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence:
    Any house of considerable size or pretension.

    3. (Astrol.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st
    {House}, 8. --Chaucer.

    4. The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in
    its monthly revolution. [Obs.]

    The eight and twenty mansions
    That longen to the moon. --Chaucer.

    {Mansion house}, the house in which one resides;
    specifically, in London and some other cities, the
    official residence of the Lord Mayor. --Blackstone.

    1. Johnson split with Taylor months ago, and his fighters last week advanced to within a mile of the presidential mansion.
    2. Instead of the farm, his home is a plush mansion outside the capital.
    3. Mr. Kassar, who owns 56% stake in Carolco, lives in a heavily guarded Beverly Hills mansion, gets a salary of $1.5 million and travels the world in a Carolco jet.
    4. On Wednesday, the rival rebel forces of Taylor and Prince Johnson waged bruising street battles in Monrovia with each other and with forces loyal to Doe, who remains holed up in his mansion in Monrovia.
    5. Martin dubbed her Mary Reilly, had her learn to read and write at a school financed by Jekyll's largesse and set her to keeping a diary of the goings-on at the well-appointed mansion.
    6. SDBO and other institutions are said to have a FFr79m mortgage on Mr Tapie's Paris mansion, which he admitted this summer was now worth only FFr30m.
    7. The Hotel de Cavoye, his luxurious mansion in Paris, could soon be on sale, with some valuations putting its worth at FFr100m-FFr160m.
    8. She was widely criticized for building a mansion on a Soweto hill, which she said was for Mandela when he left prison.
    9. Johnson said his men narrowly missed assassinating Doe on Thursday when they ambushed his car less than a mile from the mansion, the report said.
    10. Pickfair, the fabled mansion where Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks held court for early Hollywood stars, is about to be transformed into a Renaissance-style Venetian palazzo by Pia Zadora and her husband.
    11. At a mansion one day, the husband's alone with the agent and it sounds as if he's going to give Jodi away: "We're not really from Dallas," he says.
    12. Ms. Richards, in turn, asked how White could "move from a government salary to a $1.3 million mansion in Houston right after leaving the governor's office?"
    13. Mr Charles Haughey seems to have modelled his conduct on that of Governor Huey Long of Louisiana, who won an election by promising to cut taxes and promptly raised them as soon as he was back in the governor's mansion.
    14. Pop singer Kenny Loggins and his wife, Eva, have held a fund-raiser at their hilltop mansion to benefit a local program to help people with AIDS get medical care and emotional support.
    15. The two-story mansion, built in 1919, was bought for $750,000 by Lennon and Ono in 1980, shortly before the former Beatle was slain in New York City.
    16. Immediately after his death gambling was approved for the Bahamas and the largest casino of all was built on the site of his mansion.
    17. I'm still in love." _ Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson, about his feelings following a weekend rampage that left glass strewn around his Bernardsville, N.J., mansion.
    18. Jessica Hahn turned up in the pages of Playboy, and in the mansion of Hugh Hefner.
    19. Lehder was arrested and extradited to the United States last year after a gunbattle at his mansion in Medellin.
    20. It lacks only a laird's mansion, although a six-bedroom farmhouse is available.
    21. Want to buy a million-dollar mansion with hardwood floors, chandeliers and a spiral staircase?
    22. Kept for years in a Paris warehouse, the collection came to its current location, a mansion donated by a local government agency, in 1972.
    23. Lehder was extradited to the United States last year following a firefight and his arrest by the Colombian army at a Medellin mansion.
    24. For the movie, it will become "Fort Mitchell." City officials threw a reception for the film crew Saturday night at a restored antebellum mansion.
    25. "A caucus site in the governor's mansion does not appear to be proper," he said.
    26. Then last year, a series of reports in the New York Post detailed allegations that the Helmsleys had charged millions of dollars in renovations of their Connecticut mansion to their business.
    27. A popular Phillips tradition since the 1940s has been the Sunday afternoon series of free recitals by promising young professional musicians, held in a long hall that was added to the mansion in 1907.
    28. Magaldi was involved in the case of von Bulow, who was acquitted in a second trial in 1985 of twice trying to murder his heiress wife with insulin injections at their Newport mansion.
    29. The four-seater Aerospatiale Twin Squirrel, registration G-RMGN, with the Mirror Group Newspapers lion growling on its side, lowered itself onto the grass in front of Headington Hill Hall, a 30-room Edwardian mansion.
    30. It gives people a feeling they're part of it." Guests mingled about the main floor of the 15-room mansion carrying plates of food and cups of cider or punch, while the Cowpers and Lt.
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