Floor
[flɔː] or [flɔr]
解释:
(noun.) the inside lower horizontal surface (as of a room, hallway, tent, or other structure); 'they needed rugs to cover the bare floors'; 'we spread our sleeping bags on the dry floor of the tent'.
(noun.) a structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scale; 'what level is the office on?'.
(noun.) a large room in a exchange where the trading is done; 'he is a floor trader'.
(noun.) the legislative hall where members debate and vote and conduct other business; 'there was a motion from the floor'.
(noun.) the parliamentary right to address an assembly; 'the chairman granted him the floor'.
(noun.) a lower limit; 'the government established a wage floor'.
(noun.) the occupants of a floor; 'the whole floor complained about the lack of heat'.
(noun.) the bottom surface of any lake or other body of water.
(noun.) the ground on which people and animals move about; 'the fire spared the forest floor'.
(noun.) the lower inside surface of any hollow structure; 'the floor of the pelvis'; 'the floor of the cave'.
校对:莱利亚--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) The bottom or lower part of any room; the part upon which we stand and upon which the movables in the room are supported.
(n.) The structure formed of beams, girders, etc., with proper covering, which divides a building horizontally into stories. Floor in sense 1 is, then, the upper surface of floor in sense 2.
(n.) The surface, or the platform, of a structure on which we walk or travel; as, the floor of a bridge.
(n.) A story of a building. See Story.
(n.) The part of the house assigned to the members.
(n.) The right to speak.
(n.) That part of the bottom of a vessel on each side of the keelson which is most nearly horizontal.
(n.) The rock underlying a stratified or nearly horizontal deposit.
(n.) A horizontal, flat ore body.
(v. t.) To cover with a floor; to furnish with a floor; as, to floor a house with pine boards.
(v. t.) To strike down or lay level with the floor; to knock down; hence, to silence by a conclusive answer or retort; as, to floor an opponent.
(v. t.) To finish or make an end of; as, to floor a college examination.
编辑:卡蒂
同义词及近义词：
v. a. [1]. Cover with a floor, put a floor on.[2]. Overthrow, bring to the floor, knock down.[3]. Prevail over (in argument), get the better of.
手打:波莱特
解释:
n. the part of a room on which we stand: a platform: the rooms in a house on the same level a story: any levelled area.—v.t. to furnish with a floor: (coll.) to vanquish stump.—ns. Floor′cloth a covering for floors made of canvas oil-painted on both sides; Floor′er a knock-down blow; a decisive retort &c.: an examination question one cannot answer; Floor′ing material for floors: a platform.—n.pl. Floor′-tim′bers the timbers placed immediately across a ship's keel on which her bottom is framed.—ns. First′-floor the floor in a house above the ground-floor—in United States mostly identical with Ground-floor the floor of a house on a level with the ground.
编辑:梅森
例句:
- This he placed in the middle of the floor and, squatting down upon a stool in front of it, he threw back the lid. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- It threw a livid, unnatural circle upon the floor, while in the shadows beyond we saw the vague loom of two figures which crouched against the wall. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
- This was on the first floor. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Many varieties of coal produce a quantity of fine dust which settles in the roadways, on roof, and sides, and floor. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Beams crossed the opening down into the main floor where the hay-carts drove in when the hay was hauled in to be pitched up. 欧内斯特·海明威. 永别了,武器.
- The floor was of another material, very hard, and worn by much use to the smoothness of glass. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- The haggard head floated up the dark staircase, and softly descended nearer to the floor outside the outer door of the chambers. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- One early station in New York for arc lighting was an old soap-works whose well-soaked floors did not need much additional grease to render them choice fuel for the inevitable flames. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- Our rooms were large, comfortably furnished, and even had their floors clothed with soft, cheerful-tinted carpets. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The lofty gateways are graced with statues, and the broad floors are all laid in polished flags of marble. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The first floor is divided off into two large rooms--parlor and living-room--and the upper floors contain four large bedrooms, a roomy bath-room, and wide halls. 弗兰克·刘易斯·戴尔. 爱迪生的生平和发明.
- In the building of the Cooper Institute in New York City in 1857 he was the first to employ such beams with brick arches to support the floors. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- The floors of the entire plant are scrubbed at least once a week, with hot water and a strong solution of alkali, which removes the grease. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Tal Hajus arose, and I, half fearing, half anticipating his intentions, hurried to the winding runway which led to the floors below. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- Floored again! 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- The blossom is blighted, the leaf is withered, the god of day goes down upon the dreary scene, and--and in short you are for ever floored. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- The bottom is floored with maple and covered with a specially prepared pit mat, durable, yet soft, so as not to damage the balls and pins falling upon it. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- Sometimes my difficulties have--in short, have floored me. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- In his own expressive language he was 'floored. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
- A background and entourage and flooring of deepest crimson threw her out, white like alabaster--like silver: rather, be it said, like Death. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- For siding, sheathing, sub-flooring, shingles, window casings and frames, redwood is much used, because of its resistance to decay, both from contact with moisture or dry rot. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- The walls were carefully sounded, and were shown to be quite solid all round, and the flooring was also thoroughly examined, with the same result. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- The sense of walls, dry, thin, flimsy-seeming walls, and a flimsy flooring, pale with its artificial black edges, was neutralising to the mind. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
- The planing machine of Muir, of Glasgow, British patent No. 5,502, of 1827, was designed for making boards for flooring, and represented a considerable advance in the art. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Another step stamped on the flooring above and something fell; and there was silence. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
- Its work is to plane the surfaces of boards, and to cut the edges into tongues and groves, such as are required for flooring. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
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