n.[C]

1. 向军人提供住宿处的书面命令
   The townspeople received billets ordering them to lodge the regiment overnight.

   镇民接到命令，要为一团官兵提供一夜住宿。

2. （军营以外的）士兵住宿处
   The old mansion served as the soldiers' billet for a week.

   士兵在那所古宅里住了一个星期。

3. 给海员指定的睡铺
4. 职位，工作，地位
   He landed a lucrative billet with a publishing house.

   他在一家出版社里谋到一个报酬很高的职位。

5. 【古】短简，便条

vt.

1. 分配（士兵等）住宿地[（+on）]
   The captain billeted his soldiers on old Mrs. Smith.

   那上尉分派士兵住在史密斯老太太的房子里。

2. 把提供住宿处的命令送交
3. 委派，任命

vi.

1. 投宿；驻扎

n.[C]

1. 作燃料用的小木条
2. 木棒；木棍
3. 【冶】钢坯；坯料
4. 短金属条
5. 【建】错齿式粉刷线脚
6. （马鞍）皮带的扣环部分

n.

v.

n.

1. a thick piece of wood.
   ▸a small bar of metal for further processing.
2. Architecture  each of a series of short cylindrical pieces inserted at intervals in Norman decorative mouldings.
3. Heraldry  a rectangle placed vertically as a charge.