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词汇 kiosk
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Definition of kiosk in English:

kiosk

noun ˈkiːɒskˈkiˌɑsk
  • 1A small open-fronted hut or cubicle from which newspapers, refreshments, tickets, etc. are sold.

    小亭(如报刊亭、售货亭及售票亭等)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The anticorruption campaign proved most successful in the districts with the highest concentration of newspaper kiosks.
    • In Greece, couples are offered a range of incentives to have more than one child, including tax relief and licences for taxis and newspaper kiosks.
    • Starbucks plan to roll out coffee kiosks at airports and supermarkets to meet this ambitious target.
    • These are admission tickets, which means there is no need to queue at the ticket kiosk and there will be no price increase after booking.
    • A refreshment kiosk is already on the site which is leased out as an annual franchise by the council.
    • In the event, he left the magazine at home and the kiosk had sold out so he had to buy the Times and fold it to the size of the Listener.
    • The venue will be part of a small tented complex including toilets and kiosks for sweets and refreshments.
    • A kiosk sold magazines and public transport tickets beside the turnstile for the Powell-Mason Cable car.
    • Here's a tip for you - don't follow the herds of tourists queueing to buy tickets at the kiosk near the garden entrance.
    • I asked the lady in the kiosk for two adult tickets and she said: ‘Where are your children?’
    • The popularisation of orange juice, sold at a kiosk at Flinders Street Station, was one of his novelties.
    • Most resorts have amenities such as a restaurant, shop, kiosk, swimming pool and filling station.
    • Fans could bet on the numbers in bars, barber shops, newspaper kiosks, and other neighborhood outlets.
    • Villages appear more frequently, and with them sheaves of corn hanging from verandas, chillies drying in the sun and small kiosks selling random goods.
    • We've got a kiosk in reception that sells items you might need for a reasonable price.
    • We bought bus tickets at a nearby kiosk before getting on board.
    • The last surviving assassin, Tito still deals in luck and fate, selling lottery tickets from a kiosk.
    • For example, Unilever sells soap through street vendors and Coca-Cola is sold through kiosks.
    • All along the middle of these blocks are kiosks selling various wares of t-shirts and handbags and jewellery etc.
    • Its newspaper La Vérité was sold publicly in newspaper kiosks and had a wide readership.
    Synonyms
    booth, stand, stall, counter, refreshments kiosk, news stand, bookstall, telephone kiosk
    box, compartment, cubicle, cabin, hut, enclosure
    1. 1.1 A small structure in a public area used for providing information or displaying advertisements, often incorporating an interactive display screen or screens.
      公共信息亭
      Example sentencesExamples
      • He is in the process of rolling out kiosks, which the company has tested at trade shows.
      • Internet kiosks will soon become mandatory for developers of areas of public convenience, like shopping centers.
      • Like its roughly 160 smaller kiosks, customers will be able to touch gadgets but cannot physically leave with them.
      • The kiosk is linked to a database of information, and to the website of Temple Bar Properties by a broadband connection.
      • There are kiosks all over the place that no one uses: kiosks at the mall for shopping, kiosks for community information, kiosks for job listings.
      • Contact the specialty leasing agent at the mall where you want to locate your cart / kiosk.
      • Instead of attempting to sell ad space on kiosks to executives with no marketing budgets, he adopted a no-pressure approach to meetings.
      • Kiosks within the special pavilion will offer visitors a range of opportunities from information gathering to making on-line transactions for products and services.
      • The airline hopes to install 38 kiosks, beginning next April.
      • Today, the information is available in Kannada, the local language, through 200 government-owned computer kiosks in administrative offices across the state.
      • New movies could be downloaded at airport or mall kiosks.
      • For example, our Endless Aisle program enables shoppers to purchase hard-to-find items using Internet-based in-store kiosks.
      • Domestic passengers can use the touch-screen kiosks to receive a boarding pass if they have an electronic ticket.
      • All of the kiosks in the branch are designed to aid in the transition to online banking.
      • On the home front, the company has started selling at shopping mall kiosks to extend its reach beyond the party circuit.
      • Customers will be able to avoid lines by using an ATM-like kiosk to receive refills.
      • Within two years there will be a tremendous matrix of data along with a rating system to support these kiosks.
      • Microsoft is rolling out 50 multimedia kiosks at college career centers, offering students access to video archives from the past four years.
      • The kiosks are in 45 stores in Seattle and Austin, Tex., and are rolling out nationally.
      • Electronic search engines located in kiosks outside the streetscape will direct attendees to the products serving their industry segments.
  • 2British A public telephone booth.

    〈英〉公用电话亭

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Mrs Sharp said she called for an ambulance from the telephone kiosk.
    • He said that after Corless saw her victim inside the store she went outside and hid in a telephone kiosk until the pensioner left the shop.
    • The Committee had previously noted that discussions were ongoing to ensure that the location of telephone kiosks protected the city's historic environment and townscape views.
    • He went into the telephone kiosk in the station to make a call.
    • The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan.
  • 3archaic (in Turkey and Iran) a light open pavilion or summer house.

    〈古〉(土耳其,伊朗)凉亭,亭子

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Aynalikavak Pavilion and several other kiosks were built between 18th-19th centuries, and the complex was known by the people as the Shipyard Palaces.
    • This take on the classic glass pavilion is no demonstration model for a transparent Utopia, nor is it an attempt to ‘frame’ the natural surroundings. It is a less formal design for a kiosk in the park beside Riesbach Harbour in Zürich.
    Synonyms
    gazebo, pavilion, belvedere, arbour, bower, pergola

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense 'pavilion'): from French kiosque, from Turkish köşk 'pavilion', from Persian kuš.

Definition of kiosk in US English:

kiosk

nounˈkiˌɑskˈkēˌäsk
  • 1A small open-fronted hut or cubicle from which newspapers, refreshments, tickets, etc., are sold.

    小亭(如报刊亭、售货亭及售票亭等)

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Here's a tip for you - don't follow the herds of tourists queueing to buy tickets at the kiosk near the garden entrance.
    • I asked the lady in the kiosk for two adult tickets and she said: ‘Where are your children?’
    • We've got a kiosk in reception that sells items you might need for a reasonable price.
    • These are admission tickets, which means there is no need to queue at the ticket kiosk and there will be no price increase after booking.
    • Fans could bet on the numbers in bars, barber shops, newspaper kiosks, and other neighborhood outlets.
    • The anticorruption campaign proved most successful in the districts with the highest concentration of newspaper kiosks.
    • Most resorts have amenities such as a restaurant, shop, kiosk, swimming pool and filling station.
    • Its newspaper La Vérité was sold publicly in newspaper kiosks and had a wide readership.
    • The last surviving assassin, Tito still deals in luck and fate, selling lottery tickets from a kiosk.
    • In Greece, couples are offered a range of incentives to have more than one child, including tax relief and licences for taxis and newspaper kiosks.
    • For example, Unilever sells soap through street vendors and Coca-Cola is sold through kiosks.
    • A refreshment kiosk is already on the site which is leased out as an annual franchise by the council.
    • The venue will be part of a small tented complex including toilets and kiosks for sweets and refreshments.
    • We bought bus tickets at a nearby kiosk before getting on board.
    • Starbucks plan to roll out coffee kiosks at airports and supermarkets to meet this ambitious target.
    • Villages appear more frequently, and with them sheaves of corn hanging from verandas, chillies drying in the sun and small kiosks selling random goods.
    • A kiosk sold magazines and public transport tickets beside the turnstile for the Powell-Mason Cable car.
    • In the event, he left the magazine at home and the kiosk had sold out so he had to buy the Times and fold it to the size of the Listener.
    • The popularisation of orange juice, sold at a kiosk at Flinders Street Station, was one of his novelties.
    • All along the middle of these blocks are kiosks selling various wares of t-shirts and handbags and jewellery etc.
    Synonyms
    booth, stand, stall, counter, refreshments kiosk, news stand, bookstall, telephone kiosk
    1. 1.1 A small structure in a public area used for providing information or displaying advertisements, often incorporating an interactive display screen or screens.
      公共信息亭
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Like its roughly 160 smaller kiosks, customers will be able to touch gadgets but cannot physically leave with them.
      • Instead of attempting to sell ad space on kiosks to executives with no marketing budgets, he adopted a no-pressure approach to meetings.
      • He is in the process of rolling out kiosks, which the company has tested at trade shows.
      • Today, the information is available in Kannada, the local language, through 200 government-owned computer kiosks in administrative offices across the state.
      • Within two years there will be a tremendous matrix of data along with a rating system to support these kiosks.
      • Internet kiosks will soon become mandatory for developers of areas of public convenience, like shopping centers.
      • The kiosk is linked to a database of information, and to the website of Temple Bar Properties by a broadband connection.
      • Customers will be able to avoid lines by using an ATM-like kiosk to receive refills.
      • There are kiosks all over the place that no one uses: kiosks at the mall for shopping, kiosks for community information, kiosks for job listings.
      • Domestic passengers can use the touch-screen kiosks to receive a boarding pass if they have an electronic ticket.
      • The kiosks are in 45 stores in Seattle and Austin, Tex., and are rolling out nationally.
      • Contact the specialty leasing agent at the mall where you want to locate your cart / kiosk.
      • Kiosks within the special pavilion will offer visitors a range of opportunities from information gathering to making on-line transactions for products and services.
      • Electronic search engines located in kiosks outside the streetscape will direct attendees to the products serving their industry segments.
      • For example, our Endless Aisle program enables shoppers to purchase hard-to-find items using Internet-based in-store kiosks.
      • Microsoft is rolling out 50 multimedia kiosks at college career centers, offering students access to video archives from the past four years.
      • The airline hopes to install 38 kiosks, beginning next April.
      • All of the kiosks in the branch are designed to aid in the transition to online banking.
      • On the home front, the company has started selling at shopping mall kiosks to extend its reach beyond the party circuit.
      • New movies could be downloaded at airport or mall kiosks.
    2. 1.2British A telephone booth.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The Committee had previously noted that discussions were ongoing to ensure that the location of telephone kiosks protected the city's historic environment and townscape views.
      • He said that after Corless saw her victim inside the store she went outside and hid in a telephone kiosk until the pensioner left the shop.
      • The charms included a pair of riding boots, a pair of rugby boots signifying when their son played his first game, a little church, a telephone kiosk and a gypsy caravan.
      • He went into the telephone kiosk in the station to make a call.
      • Mrs Sharp said she called for an ambulance from the telephone kiosk.
    3. 1.3archaic (in Turkey and Iran) a light open pavilion or summerhouse.
      〈古〉(土耳其,伊朗)凉亭,亭子
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Aynalikavak Pavilion and several other kiosks were built between 18th-19th centuries, and the complex was known by the people as the Shipyard Palaces.
      • This take on the classic glass pavilion is no demonstration model for a transparent Utopia, nor is it an attempt to ‘frame’ the natural surroundings. It is a less formal design for a kiosk in the park beside Riesbach Harbour in Zürich.
      Synonyms
      gazebo, pavilion, belvedere, arbour, bower, pergola

Origin

Early 17th century (in the sense ‘pavilion’): from French kiosque, from Turkish köşk ‘pavilion’, from Persian kuš.

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