objects that can be moved, such as tables, chairs and beds, that are put into a house or an office to make it suitable for living or working in （可移动的）家具 garden/office furniture 花园／办公室家具 a dealer in antique furniture 古董家具经销商 a piece of furniture 一件家具 We need to buy some new furniture. 我们需要买一些新家具。
Extra ExamplesTopics Houses and homesa2, Shoppinga2All the original furniture and fittings will be reinstated. 所有原来的家具及配件都将恢复原样。 The room would look bigger if we rearranged the furniture. 如果我们把家具重新摆放，房间会显得大些。 The wood is used for making fine furniture. 这些木材是用来制作高档家具的。 an 18th-century town house, complete with period furniture 配有全套当时特色家具的 18 世纪联排房屋
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- antique
- period
- contemporary
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- item
- piece
- arrange
- move
- move around
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- furniture and fittings
Word Originearly 16th cent. (denoting ‘the action of furnishing’): from French fourniture, from fournir, from Old French furnir ‘to furnish’.
Idioms
part of the furniture
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a person or thing that you are so used to seeing that you no longer notice them 见惯了的人（或东西）；存在已久故不为人注意的人（或事物）
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