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chamber的音标和读音：
DJ音标发音： [ˈtʃeimbə]
KK音标发音： [ˈtʃembɚ]

chamber的词性：
n.（名词）

1. A room in a house, especially a bedroom.
室，卧室：房子里一房间，尤指一卧室

2. A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.
会客室：高级官员或权威显要人物的接见室

3. chambers A room in which a judge may consult privately with attorneys or hear cases not taken into court.
chambers 内庭：法官与检察官私下讨论或听取不必在法庭上审讯的案件的房间

4. chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.
chambers 【多用于英国】 律师的办公室：一套房间，尤指律师所用的

5. A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.
议事厅：议院或其他立法机关的会议厅

6. A legislative or judicial body.
立法院，司法机构

7. A board or council.
董事会或理事会

8. A place where municipal or state funds are received and held; a treasury.
金库：市或州的资金收取存放的地方；财库

9. An enclosed space or compartment:
封闭的空间，密闭的分隔间：

the chamber of a pump; a compression chamber.
泵房；压缩室

10. An enclosed space in the body of an organism; a cavity:
腔，室：有机物体内封闭的腔；室：

the four chambers of the heart.
心脏的四个心室

11. A compartment in a firearm, as in the breech of a rifle or the cylinder of a revolver, that holds the cartridge in readiness for firing.
弹腔、药室：武器的弹腔，如步枪的弹腔或左轮手枪的旋转弹腔，内装子弹以备射击

12. An enclosed space in the bore of a gun that holds the charge.
药室：枪炮的内腔装弹药的封闭空间

chamber的词性：
v.tr.（及物动词）

13. To put in or as if in a chamber; enclose or confine.
限制，幽禁：把…关在房间里；封闭或限制

14. To furnish with a chamber.
使备有房间

chamber的词源：

15. Middle English chaumbre
中古英语 chaumbre

16. from Old French chambre
源自 古法语 chambre

17. from Late Latin camera [chamber]
源自 后期拉丁语 camera [房间]

18. from Latin [vault]
源自 拉丁语 [储藏室，金库]

19. from Greek kamara
源自 希腊语 kamara