Coping
['kəʊpɪŋ] or ['kopɪŋ]
解释:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Cope
(n.) The highest or covering course of masonry in a wall, often with sloping edges to carry off water; -- sometimes called capping.
整理:韦尔登
例句:
- We shall thus have a thin wall steadily growing upward but always crowned by a gigantic coping. 查尔斯·达尔文. 物种起源.
- As I did the same I felt the hand of the man behind me grab at my ankle, but I kicked myself free and scrambled over a grass-strewn coping. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- He stopped and laid his hand upon a piece of the coping of the burial-ground enclosure, as if he would have dislodged the stone. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- He is physically weak and not able to turn the strength which he possesses to coping with the physical environment. 约翰·杜威. 民主与教育.
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