Gothic
['ɡɔθik]
解释:
(noun.) a style of architecture developed in northern France that spread throughout Europe between the 12th and 16th centuries; characterized by slender vertical piers and counterbalancing buttresses and by vaulting and pointed arches.
(noun.) a heavy typeface in use from 15th to 18th centuries.
(noun.) extinct East Germanic language of the ancient Goths; the only surviving record being fragments of a 4th-century translation of the Bible by Bishop Ulfilas.
(adj.) characterized by gloom and mystery and the grotesque; 'gothic novels like `Frankenstein'' .
(adj.) of or relating to the Goths; 'Gothic migrations' .
(adj.) of or relating to the language of the ancient Goths; 'the Gothic Bible translation' .
(adj.) characteristic of the style of type commonly used for printing German .
班尼特手打--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) Pertaining to the Goths; as, Gothic customs; also, rude; barbarous.
(a.) Of or pertaining to a style of architecture with pointed arches, steep roofs, windows large in proportion to the wall spaces, and, generally, great height in proportion to the other dimensions -- prevalent in Western Europe from about 1200 to 1475 a. d. See Illust. of Abacus, and Capital.
(n.) The language of the Goths; especially, the language of that part of the Visigoths who settled in Moesia in the 4th century. See Goth.
(n.) A kind of square-cut type, with no hair lines.
(n.) The style described in Gothic, a., 2.
吉尔伯特校对
同义词及近义词:
a. Rude, barbaric, barbarous.
n. Gothic language.
编辑:弗吉尼亚
例句:
- All are fundamentally Gothic and Nordic peoples. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The flag with the inscription SLEARY'S HORSE-RIDING was there; and the Gothic niche was there; but Mr. Sleary was not there. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- Sleary himself, a stout modern statue with a money-box at its elbow, in an ecclesiastical niche of early Gothic architecture, took the money. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- A Gothic arched door led to a worn stone staircase. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯归来记.
- After that, he fell to gardening, and I saw him from my gothic window pretending to employ the Aged, and nodding at him in a most devoted manner. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
- To the east of the Gothic kingdom the emperors of Constantinople ruled definitely. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- We recognized the brown old Gothic pile in a moment; it was like the pictures. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
手打:珀西瓦尔