inn: [OE] An inn was originally literally a place one lived or stayed ‘in’. It comes from a prehistoric Germanic *innam, which was a derivative of the ancestor of the modern English adverb in, and in Old English it meant simply ‘house where one lives, abode, home’. This sense survived into the 17th century (‘Queen Mary gave this House to Nicholas Heth, Archbishop of York, and his successors for ever, to be their Inne or Lodging for their Repair to London’, James Howell, Londinopolis 1657), and a memory of it remains in London’s Inns of Court, which originated as lodgings for lawyers.
The later sense ‘public house, tavern’ developed towards the end of the 14th century. => in
inn (n.)
Old English inn "lodging, dwelling, house," probably from inne (adv.) "inside, within" (see in). Meaning "public house with lodging" is perhaps by c. 1200, certainly by c. 1400. Meaning "lodging house or residence for students" is early 13c. in Anglo-Latin, obsolete except in names of buildings that were so used (such as Inns of Court, mid-15c.).
雙語例句
1. I always feel at home at Ye Olde Starre Inn.
在昨日星辰客棧，我總有種賓至如歸的感覺。
來自柯林斯例句
2. The inn gift shop stocks quality Indian crafts and sundries.
旅館的禮品店里備有上好的印度手工藝品和其他一些特色禮品。
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3. A shuttle bus runs frequently between the Inn and the Country Club.
一輛區間公交車頻繁地往返于這家旅館和那個鄉村俱樂部。
來自柯林斯例句
4. The Tides Inn is both comfortable and unpretentious.
泰得斯小酒店舒適而又簡潔。
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5. She washed her face at the pump in front of the inn.