cabin
/ˈkæbɪn/ (bre, ipa) · /ˈkæbɪn/ (ame, ipa) · /ˈka-bən/ (ame, mw)
cabin — 名詞
1. a small one-room or two-room house, often built from logs or wooden boards, that
小木屋
鄉間度假或居住的小型木造房屋
a small one-room or two-room house, often built from logs or wooden boards, that people use as a holiday home or a basic place to live in the countryside.
Marcus built a tiny log cabin beside the lake using pine trees from his land.
Marcus 用自家土地上的松樹，在湖邊蓋了一間小小的原木小木屋。
noun phrase: log cabin
The Watanabe family rented a wooden cabin in the mountains for the winter holiday.
Watanabe 一家人在寒假期間租了山上的一間木造小木屋。
collocation: rent a cabin
Smoke rose from the chimney of a small cabin hidden among the tall fir trees.
高大的杉木林裡藏著一間小木屋，煙囪正冒著炊煙。
Maya unpacked her sleeping bag in cabin number seven on her first night at summer camp.
Maya 來到夏令營的第一晚，就在七號小木屋裡打開她的睡袋。
Lina warmed her hands by the wood stove inside the old hunting cabin.
Lina 在那間舊獵人小木屋裡，靠著柴爐取暖。
文法句型
a cabin in/on [place]
log cabin
用法筆記
Usually paired with a wood-related modifier (log, wooden, timber) or a setting modifier (mountain, lakeside, hunting). Suggests a rustic or holiday context, not a normal urban home.
常見錯誤
2. a private bedroom built into a ship, usually below the main deck, where one pass
船艙
船上供人睡覺的私人小房間
a private bedroom built into a ship, usually below the main deck, where one passenger or crew member can sleep, change clothes, and store luggage during the voyage.
Sarah shared a tiny cabin with two narrow beds on the ferry to Hokkaido.
Sarah 在前往北海道的渡輪上，與人共用一間有兩張窄床的小船艙。
pattern: share a cabin with [someone]
Carlos paid an extra two hundred dollars a night for a cabin with a sea view on the cruise.
為了搭那艘郵輪，Carlos 每晚多付兩百美元，換到一間有海景的船艙。
collocation: cabin with a sea view
Carlos stored his suitcase under the bed in his cabin before heading to the deck.
Carlos 把行李箱塞進船艙的床底下，才上甲板。
The captain's cabin had a desk, a bookshelf, and a round window above the bed.
船長的船艙裡有一張書桌、一個小書架，床的上方還有一扇圓窗。
文法句型
a cabin on [a ship/boat]
share a cabin with [someone]
用法筆記
Common collocations: outside cabin (with a window), inside cabin (no window), first-class cabin. The preposition 'on' is used for the ship as a whole; 'in' is used for inside the cabin itself.
常見錯誤
3. the enclosed seating area inside a plane where passengers travel during a flight
客艙
飛機內供乘客乘坐的封閉空間
the enclosed seating area inside a plane where passengers travel during a flight; the same word is sometimes used for the equivalent space in a spacecraft or large vehicle.
The flight attendants asked everyone in the cabin to fasten their seat belts before takeoff.
起飛前，空服員請客艙裡的所有人繫好安全帶。
preposition: in the cabin
Lights in the cabin were dimmed so passengers could sleep on the flight to London.
客艙的燈光調暗了，好讓乘客在飛往倫敦的長途班機上睡覺。
Sarah walked through the business-class cabin and found her wide seat near the window.
Sarah 走過商務艙的客艙，找到她那張靠窗的寬敞座椅。
Dr. Tanaka glanced toward the back of the cabin when a baby started crying in row 32.
當 32 排有個嬰兒開始哭時，Dr. Tanaka 朝客艙後方望了一眼。
Cabin pressure dropped suddenly, and yellow oxygen masks fell from the ceiling above each seat.
客艙氣壓突然下降，黃色的氧氣面罩從每個座位上方的天花板掉了下來。
- compartment
more general; can also mean a small section inside the cabin
- passenger area
descriptive phrase rather than a single noun; clearer for non-aviation contexts
- cockpit
the front section where the pilot controls the plane
文法句型
the cabin of [a plane]
in the cabin
用法筆記
Frequently used in fixed compounds: cabin crew, cabin pressure, cabin baggage, cabin class. Distinguish from sense 2 (ship): the plane sense covers the whole passenger area, not a private bedroom.
常見錯誤
4. a small partitioned booth, often glass-walled, placed inside a workplace such as
小隔間；崗亭
大空間裡供單人辦公或值勤的小隔間
a small partitioned booth, often glass-walled, placed inside a workplace such as a factory, station, or warehouse, where one staff member sits to check people in, sell tickets, or do paperwork.
The security guard waved Marcus through from a glass cabin near the factory gate.
警衛在工廠大門旁的玻璃崗亭裡，揮手讓 Marcus 通過。
collocation: glass cabin / security cabin
Each ticket seller works in a tiny cabin beside the platform at the bus station.
公車站每位售票員都在月台旁的小隔間裡工作。
Lina knocked on the supervisor's cabin window to ask for a new shift schedule.
Lina 敲了敲主管小隔間的窗戶，想換新的班表。
A wooden cabin in the corner of the warehouse served as the foreman's office.
倉庫角落裡有一間木造小隔間，當作領班的辦公室。
文法句型
a cabin in/inside [a building]
用法筆記
More common in British English; American English often prefers 'booth', 'cubicle', or 'office'. Subject inside a cabin is usually a single role-holder (guard, clerk, supervisor), not a team.
常見錯誤
cabin — 動詞
1. to keep a person or animal in a tight, closed-in space so that they cannot move
困住；侷限
將人或事物關在狹小空間或範圍內
to keep a person or animal in a tight, closed-in space so that they cannot move freely; often used in writing to describe forced limits on freedom.
For three weeks the prisoners were cabined inside a windowless basement beneath the courthouse.
那些囚犯被關在法院地下一間沒有窗戶的房間裡，整整三個星期。
passive: be cabined inside [place]
A blizzard cabined Marcus and his dog in their pickup truck overnight on the mountain road.
一場暴風雪把 Marcus 和他的狗困在山路上的小貨車裡，整整一個晚上。
active: [force] cabin [someone] in [place]
Aunt Rosa hated being cabined up in the back seat between the children's car seats.
Aunt Rosa 討厭被擠在後座、夾在小孩的安全座椅之間。
The Supreme Court cabined the new privacy law within a narrow set of medical cases.
最高法院把這項新隱私法的適用範圍，侷限在少數幾類醫療案件上。
文法句型
be cabined in [a place]
cabin [someone] up
用法筆記
Almost always passive in modern usage. Often appears with 'in', 'up', or 'within'. In legal and political writing it can also mean to limit a power or rule, not just a person — for example, 'the ruling cabins executive authority'.