英文单字日进032 amenity

Amenity /əˈmɛnɪti/

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n.设备；服务设施(常用复数形)

The hotel is expensive,but it offers the best amenities in town.

这间饭店很昂贵，但它提供城里的最棒的设施。

助记:

amenity指的通常是"使生活愉快之设施"。事实上，amenity一字也有"(性情等的)愉快"或"(环境等的)舒适"之意。

联facility n.设备；设施

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Thomas Lange, G.M., Courthouse Doubletree By Hilton:

And then we will go, as a hotel, and get these things and prepare the rooms, and, matter of fact, especially in London, this is a very common amenity that hotels provide.

希尔顿法院大楼双树旅馆总经理汤玛斯·朗格：

然后我们就会按照对方需求佈置房间。实际上，这是饭店常见的服务，在伦敦尤其如此。

英英解析:

Like built-in GPS, seat warmers and four-wheel drive, an amenity is a feature that contributes to comfort or value. Or in another sense, it's the overall pleasantness that results from all those cool features.

Declared the American novelist Edith Wharton, “I despair of the Republic! Such dreariness, such whining sallow women, such utter absence of the amenities, such crass food, crass manners, crass landscape! What a horror it is for a whole nation to be developing without the sense of beauty, and eating bananas for breakfast.” As you can see, people throughout time have gotten cranky when they’ve felt their amenities to be lacking.(vocabulary.com)