gal‧le‧ry W3 / ɡæləri / 名词 ( 复数形式 galleries ) [可数名词]
1
a) a large building where people can see famous pieces of art :
an exhibition of African art at the Hayward Gallery
b) a small privately owned shop or studio where you can see and buy pieces of art
2
a) an upper floor or balcony built on an inner wall of a hall, theatre, or church, from which people can watch a performance, discussion etc :
the public gallery in Congress
in the gallery
We could only afford seats up in the gallery.
b) the gallery the people sitting in a gallery
3 play to the gallery to do or say something just because you think it will please people and make you popular
4 a level passage under the ground in a mine or cave
→ press gallery , shooting gallery
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ADJECTIVES/NOUN + gallery
an art gallery a guide to the city’s museums and art galleries
a picture/portrait gallery The picture gallery is full of treasures.
a private gallery (= owned by a private person ) The portrait was to be sold to a private gallery in the United States.
the national gallery (= owned by the country ) Edinburgh has three national galleries.
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visit/go to a gallery The children visited the gallery on a school trip.
a painting hangs in a gallery Many of her pictures hang in the National Gallery of Canada.
a gallery is showing/exhibiting something The gallery is showing a series of watercolour works.
exhibit something in/at a gallery It was the first time that the paintings had been exhibited in a gallery.
gallery + NOUN
gallery space (= area for displaying art ) She exhibited her work in the gallery space of the Institute of Art and Technology.