loft
noun /lɒft/
/lɔːft/
- (especially British English) a space just below the roof of a house, often used for storing things and sometimes made into a room
阁楼，顶楼（常用以贮物，间或作房间） - a loft conversion (= one that has been made into a room or rooms for living in)
用阁楼改装的居室
- a loft conversion (= one that has been made into a room or rooms for living in)
- an upper level in a church, or a farm or factory building
（教堂的）楼厢；（农场的）厩楼；（工厂的）上层楼面 - the organ loft
教堂内的管风琴台
- the organ loft
- a flat in a former factory, etc., that has been made suitable for living in
（由工厂等改建的）套房，公寓 - They lived in a SoHo loft.
他们居住在索霍区改建的公寓里。
- They lived in a SoHo loft.
- (North American English) a part of a room that is on a higher level than the rest
（房间的）跃层 - The children slept in a loft in the upstairs bedroom.
孩子们睡在楼上卧室里的跃层上。
- The children slept in a loft in the upstairs bedroom.
词源late Old English, from Old Norse lopt ‘air, sky, upper room’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch lucht and German Luft.