英和和英

名詞

audience hall (複数形 audience halls)

1. A room in which a ruler or religious official holds audience (i.e. a formal meeting with a dignitary).
   • 1913 July, Katharine A. Carl, “A Personal Estimate of teh Character of the Late Empress Dowager Tze-Hsi”, in The Journal of International Relations, volume 4, page 64:

     The audience hall was in another building , for the Chinese palaces, instead of being one great building as in Europe, consist of a number of pavilions divided by courts and connected by covered archways.

   • 1998, Stefan Grundmann, Ulrich Fürst, The Architecture of Rome, page 346:

     In the audience hall Nervi's typical reinterpretation of reinforced concrete leads to an astonishingly direct and symbolic implementation of the functional requirements.

   • 2016, The Palace Law of Ayutthaya and the Thammasat:

     When His Majesty the King proceeds to an audience hall or any royal building but has not yet arrived, others of royal lineage, luang mueang, khun, muen, hua phan, saber masters, and various officials attending on the royal foot may not exit beforehand.

   • 2016, Aniruddha Ray, Towns and Cities of Medieval India: A Brief Survey:

     The poet also described that he had crossed nine gates from the principal gateway of the palace to go to the audience hall.

2. (dated) An auditorium or large hall with a stage designed to seat an audience (i.e. a group of people watching a performance).
   • 1914, Report of the Chief of the Massachusetts District Police, page 83:

     Seats shall be not less than 2 feet 6 inches from back to back, measured horizontally, and no seat on the audience hall floor shall have more than 7 seats between it and an aisle.

   • 1916 January, “Report on Minimum Ventilation Requirements For Public and Semi-Public Buildings for Legislation Purposes”, in Transactions: American Society of Heating, Refrigerating and Air-Conditioning Engineers, volume 22, page 61:

     A minimum of 4 3/5 sq. ft. (must be at least 33 in. back to back of seats by at least 20 in. width of seat) of floor area as a seating space per occupant, exclusive of aisles and public passageways, shall be provided in the audience hall.

   • 1917 November 24, “Heating and Ventilating”, in The American Artisan, volume 74, number 3, page 35:

     A minimum of 90 cubic feet of air space, per occupant, shall be provided in the audience hall.