🇬🇧🇨🇳 motel - 汽车旅馆 : English Lesson

Meaning of "motel" ("汽车旅馆"), detailed definition, and a short video lesson below.

A motel is a small, simple hotel beside a road or highway where people who are traveling by car can stop, park nearby, sleep for the night, and then keep driving the next day.

Watch and listen to this English flashcard to understand the word in more detail, with an easy example sentence.

I knew it was a cheap motel when the sign said, "Free air included in every room!"

The motel breakfast was cereal, toast, and a mysterious muffin that looked older than the building.

The motel curtains were so thin that the sunrise held a surprise 5 a.m. wake-up party in my eyeballs.

At the desert motel, the only room service was a lizard staring in through the window like a tiny security guard.

We picked a motel with a big neon sign that flashed so much I felt like I was sleeping inside a disco ball.

Night rain, two tired drivers pull off the highway and see a blue neon motel sign. The motel room smells like coffee and warm sheets. They drop wet bags, laugh at the small motel TV, lock the door, and sit on the bed. Outside, the motel light blinks; inside, the motel quiet holds; they breathe and sleep.

This word is at the C2 level, which means it represents the highest mastery of English. It’s often used in specialized or highly formal contexts and helps you communicate with precision and subtlety, much like a native speaker.

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