Grotto
['grɒtəʊ] or ['ɡrɑto]
解释:
(n.) A natural covered opening in the earth; a cave; also, an artificial recess, cave, or cavernlike apartment.
埃迪校对
同义词及近义词:
n. Grot, cave, cavern.
整理:米切尔
解释:
n. a cave: a place of shade for pleasure—also Grot:—pl. Grott′os—n. Grott′o-work a grotto-like structure.
录入:奥利维尔
娱乐性解释:
To see a grotto in your dreams, is a sign of incomplete and inconstant friendships. Change from comfortable and simple plenty will make showy poverty unbearable.
录入:莫拉
例句:
- We reached the grotto at about three in the afternoon, and proceeded at once to make the experiments. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- They even have in it a grotto wherein twenty thousand children were slaughtered by Herod when he was seeking the life of the infant Saviour. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- When the Virgin fled from Herod's wrath, she hid in a grotto in Bethlehem, and the same is there to this day. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The grotto was tricked out in the usual tasteless style observable in all the holy places of Palestine. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- You know the Grotto del Cane at Naples, Maurice, where a man can enter freely, but a dog dies? 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- I longed to see this grotto. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- We went to the Milk Grotto, of course--a cavern where Mary hid herself for a while before the flight into Egypt. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- It is an imposture--this grotto stuff--but it is one that all men ought to thank the Catholics for. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I doubt if any man can stand in the Grotto of the Annunciation and people with the phantom images of his mind its too tangible walls of stone. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The slaughter of the innocents in Bethlehem was done in a grotto; the Saviour was born in a grotto--both are shown to pilgrims yet. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- All under one roof, and all clean, spacious, comfortable grottoes. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- If they ever did, their grottoes are all gone, and I suppose we ought to wonder at the peculiar marvel of the preservation of these I speak of. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
录入:弗农