a small area of a room that is separated off by curtains or by thin or low walls (大房间分隔出的)小房间,隔间 a shower cubicle 淋浴小单间 - (British English)
a changing cubicle (= for example at a public swimming pool) 更衣室隔间 - (especially North American English)
an office cubicle 办公室的隔间 I don’t even know my colleague in the next cubicle. 我连隔壁小隔间的同事都不认识。
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- little
- small
- tiny
- …
- curtain
- door
- wall
- …
- occupy
- enter
- leave
- …
- in a/the cubicle
Word Originlate Middle English (in the sense ‘bedroom’): from Latin cubiculum, from cubare ‘lie down’.