〈旧〉 客厅,起居室。
a room in a public building for receiving guests
会客室;接待室
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the mayor's parlor. 市长接待室。
a room in a monastery or convent that is set aside for conversation
(修道院的)谈话室。
[usu. with modifier]
〈主北美〉 店堂
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an ice-cream parlor 冷饮店
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a funeral parlor. 殡仪馆。
(亦作
挤牛奶的房间。
〈旧,贬〉 空有激进政治观点的;空谈而无行动的
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the so-called radicalism of the new ‘parlor communists’. 新“空谈共产主义者”的所谓激进主义。
"Middle English: from Anglo-Norman French