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shoebox

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++shoe·box /ˈʃuːbɒks $ -bɑːks/ noun [countable]  1. a cardboard box that shoes are sold in 鞋盒2 British English informal a very small room, house etc 非常小的房间[房子] I was living in a shoebox in Clapham. 我住在克拉珀姆一所非常小的房子里。
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shoeboxShe kept her cash in a shoebox under the bed.We hazard a guess that they're lurking in a shoebox or, worse still, the ubiquitous carrier bag!She hid them in a shoebox in her closet.Letters Mike had written to his brothers, packed into a shoebox, sat at the end nearest us.Enclosed in plastic casing of muddy beige, it was slightly bigger than a shoebox on end, about fourteen inches high.His office -- smaller than his players' shoeboxes -- is in the same North Gym fieldhouse where Tarkanian played guard.In some of the envelopes in Boy's shoebox were photographs.Madame's letter, and her books, were put into Boy's shoebox to join his collection of letters and photographs.
shoe·box nounChineseSyllable
a are in sold Corpus that box cardboard shoes


shoebox
shoebox /ˈʃuːbɒks $ -bɑːks/ noun [countable]
1. a cardboard box that shoes are sold in
2. British English informal a very small room, house etc:
    I was living in a shoebox in Clapham.


shoe·boxBrE /ˈʃuːbɒks/ 🔊NAmE /ˈʃuːbɑːks/ 🔊 nouna box in which you take a pair of new shoes home from a shop 鞋盒(disapproving) a very small house with a square shape and no interesting features, especially one that is very similar to all the ones around it (尤指千篇一律的)小平房,鞋盒式住房