amenity

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /əˈmiːnəti/    美 /əˈmɛnəti/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Pleasantness. countable,uncountable
    — We especially enjoyed the amenity of the climate on our last holiday.
  2. A thing or circumstance that is welcome and makes life a little easier or more pleasant; a public facility. countable,uncountable
    — All the little amenities the hotel provided made our stay very enjoyable.
  3. Convenience. countable,uncountable
  4. A unit pertaining to the infrastructure of a community, such as a public toilet, a postbox, a library, etc. countable,uncountable
    — Suburbia was the prescribed antidote to the dreariness of the hypertrophied industrial city—and most American cities had never been anything but that. They were short on amenity, overcrowded, and artless. Americans were sick of them and saw no way to improve them.

词形变化

amenities plural amœnity alternative,archaic

词汇关系

衍生词
amenities amenity block amenity fee amenity tree civic amenity site communal amenity disamenity public amenity
相关词
amene

词源

Inherited from Middle English amenite, amenyte, partly from Middle French amenité and partly from its etymon, Latin amoenitās (“pleasantness, delightfulness”), from amoenus (“pleasant, delightful”), of unknown origin.
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