furniture
noun /ˈfɜːnɪtʃə(r)/
/ˈfɜːrnɪtʃər/
[uncountable]Idioms - objects that can be moved, such as tables, chairs and beds, that are put into a house or an office to make it suitable for living or working in
（可移动的）家具 - garden/office furniture
花园／办公室家具 - a dealer in antique furniture
古董家具经销商 - a piece of furniture
一件家具 - We need to buy some new furniture.
我们需要买一些新家具。
Topics Houses and homesa2, Shoppinga2- All the original furniture and fittings will be reinstated.
所有原来的家具及配件都将恢复原样。 - The room would look bigger if we rearranged the furniture.
如果我们把家具重新摆放，房间会显得大些。 - The wood is used for making fine furniture.
这些木材是用来制作高档家具的。 - an 18th-century town house, complete with period furniture
配有全套当时特色家具的 18 世纪联排房屋
Collocations Dictionaryadjective- antique
- period
- contemporary
- …
- item
- piece
- arrange
- move
- move around
- …
- item
- piece
- dealer
- …
- furniture and fittings
词源early 16th cent. (denoting ‘the action of furnishing’): from French fourniture, from fournir, from Old French furnir ‘to furnish’. - garden/office furniture
Idioms
part of the furniture
- (informal) a person or thing that you are so used to seeing that you no longer notice them
见惯了的人（或东西）；存在已久故不为人注意的人（或事物） - I worked there so long that I became part of the furniture.
我在那里工作得太久，都不为人注意了。
- I worked there so long that I became part of the furniture.
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