noun [集合/集体] 集体宿舍；<美>（学院或大学的）学生宿舍楼；<英>（为在附近城市里工作的人提供的）住宅城，郊外居住区
A dormitory is a large bedroom where several people sleep, for example, in a boarding school. 宿舍 • ...the boys' dormitory. …男生宿舍。
adjective [原级] <英>（供在另一个城市工作的人）住宅的
If you refer to a place as a dormitory community or suburb, you mean that most of the people who live there travel to work in a city or another. (指通勤者居住的) 卧室社区
dorm(睡眠) + it + ory(表地点， 名词后缀) → 睡觉的地方 → 宿舍
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- They raced back to the dormitory before the nine o'clock curfew. 他们在9点熄灯之前拼命跑回了宿舍。
- She lived in a college dormitory. 她住在一幢大学宿舍楼里。
- ...the boys' dormitory. …男生宿舍。