詞彙精選：inn的用法和辨析

一、詳細釋義：

n.

小飯店，小酒館；小旅館，客棧

例句：

He tied up the horse and went into the inn.

他繫住馬，走進了小酒店。

例句：

He stopped at a village inn.

他在村裏的一家旅店休息。

v.

住旅館 [I]

二、詞義辨析：

hotel,inn,motel

這些名詞都有“旅館，客店”之意。hotel指開設於城鎮，有一定設備，可提供食宿的旅館。inn多指開設於鄉間、路邊，設備簡陋的小旅店。motel系motor hotel的混合縮寫詞，指美國開設於公路旁，專供駕駛汽車的旅客往宿和有停車場的旅店。

三、相關短語：

motor inn

汽車飯店

四、參考例句：

He keeps an inn there.

他在那裏開了個小旅館。

Every inn had a picturesque name — the Black Locust Inn, the Blueberry Inn.

每個旅館都有一個別致的名字，如“洋槐樹旅館”、“藍莓旅館”。

The inn has a garden of semi-tropical vegetation.

這家小旅館裏有一個亞熱帶植物園。

There was a small and not very sanitary inn nearby.

附近有一家不那麼衛生的小客棧

We stayed at the inn as transient guests.

我們在小酒館中只作短暫停留。

The Tides Inn is both comfortable and unpretentious.

泰得斯小酒店舒適而又簡潔。

The desk clerk at the Watemill suggested your inn.

Watemill inn櫃檯職員推薦你們旅館。

I shall room at the inn for two nights.

我要在這家小店住兩個晚上。

I know a nice little inn quite close to here.

我知道離這兒不遠有一家不錯的小酒館。

Upon inquiry, he learnt that the inn was near an inlet.

在詢問之後，他知道了客棧在一個水灣附近。