chamber
n
1 [C] (formerly) room, esp a bedroom (舊時)房間, (尤指)寢室.
2 chambers [pl]
(a) judge's room for hearing cases that do not need to be taken into court 法官的辦公室(用以審理不需要提出訴訟的案件).
(b) (Brit) set of rooms in a larger building, esp the offices in the Inns of Court used by barristers for interviewing clients, etc 大建筑物中的成套房間; (尤指法律協會的)辦公室(訟務律師用以接待委托人等的).
3 [C, CGp] (hall used by an) administrative or legislative assembly, eg one of the houses of a parliament 行政或立法機構(用的大廳)(如議會的會議廳)
The members left the council chamber. 議員們離開了會議廳.
the Upper/Lower Chamber, eg (in Britain) the House of Lords/Commons 上[下]議院(如英國的上[下]議院).
4 [C]
(a) enclosed space or cavity in the body of an animal, in a plant or in some kinds of machinery (動植物體內或某些機器中封閉的)洞穴, 腔, 室
the chambers of the heart, ie the auricle and the ventricle 心腔(心房與心室)
a combustion chamber 燃燒室. =>illus at piston 見piston之插圖.
(b) enclosed space under the ground 地下的封閉空間; 洞穴
The cavers discovered a vast underground chamber. 探穴人發現了一個地下大洞穴.
5 [C] part of a gun that holds the bullets 槍膛; 炮膛.