名詞 chamber:

1. a natural or artificial enclosed space
2. an enclosed volume in the body
3. a room where a judge transacts business
4. a deliberative or legislative or administrative or judicial assembly
5. a room used primarily for sleeping
   同義詞：bedroom, sleeping room, bedchamber

動詞 chamber:

1. place in a chamber

1. Hie (thee) to thy chamber.
   你撒開丫子回屋去吧。
2. The heart has four chambers.
   心臟有兩房兩室。
3. In Britain the upper Chamber is the House of Lords, and the lower the House of Commons.
   英國上院即貴族院，下院即眾議院。
4. The judge met the two lawyers in his chambers.
   法官在他的辦公室里會見了兩位律師。

cham.ber

n.（名詞）
A room in a house, especially a bedroom.
室，臥室：房子里一房間，尤指一臥室
A room where a person of authority, rank, or importance receives visitors.
會客室：高級官員或權(quán)威顯要人物的接見室
chambers A room in which a judge may consult privately with attorneys or hear cases not taken into court.
chambers 內(nèi)庭：法官與檢察官私下討論或聽取不必在法庭上審訊的案件的房間
chambers Chiefly British A suite of rooms, especially one used by lawyers.
chambers 【多用于英國】 律師的辦公室：一套房間，尤指律師所用的
A hall for the meetings of a legislative or other assembly.
議事廳：議院或其他立法機關(guān)的會議廳
A legislative or judicial body.
立法院，司法機構(gòu)
A board or council.
董事會或理事會
A place where municipal or state funds are received and held; a treasury.
金庫：市或州的資金收取存放的地方；財庫

An enclosed space or compartment:
封閉的空間，密閉的分隔間：
例句：
the chamber of a pump; a compression chamber.
泵房；壓縮室

An enclosed space in the body of an organism; a cavity:
腔，室：有機物體內(nèi)封閉的腔；室：
例句：
the four chambers of the heart.
心臟的四個心室

A compartment in a firearm, as in the breech of a rifle or the cylinder of a revolver, that holds the cartridge in readiness for firing.
彈腔、藥室：武器的彈腔，如步槍的彈腔或左輪手槍的旋轉(zhuǎn)彈腔，內(nèi)裝子彈以備射擊
An enclosed space in the bore of a gun that holds the charge.
藥室：槍炮的內(nèi)腔裝彈藥的封閉空間
v.tr.（及物動詞）
cham.bered,cham.ber.ing,cham.bers
To put in or as if in a chamber; enclose or confine.
限制，幽禁：把…關(guān)在房間里；封閉或限制
To furnish with a chamber.
使備有房間

來源：
Middle English chaumbre
中古英語 chaumbre
from Old French chambre
源自 古法語 chambre
from Late Latin camera [chamber]
源自 后期拉丁語 camera [房間]
from Latin [vault]
源自 拉丁語 [儲藏室，金庫]
from Greek kamara
源自 希臘語 kamara