Niche
[niːʃ;nɪtʃ] or [niʃ]
解释:
(noun.) (ecology) the status of an organism within its environment and community (affecting its survival as a species).
(noun.) a position particularly well suited to the person who occupies it; 'he found his niche in the academic world'.
校对:莫利--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A cavity, hollow, or recess, generally within the thickness of a wall, for a statue, bust, or other erect ornament. hence, any similar position, literal or figurative.
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同义词及近义词：
n. Nook, recess.
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解释:
n. a recess in a wall for a statue vase &c.: a person's proper place or condition in life or public estimation one's appointed or appropriate place.—v.t. to place in a niche.—adj. Niched placed in a niche.
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例句:
- From the niche a single object protruded into the light from the candles on the table. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
- 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.
- She beckoned the Jew towards her, as she reached down the shrub-bottle from its niche, and whispered: 'Child, or woman? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- To-night the watering-pot might rest in its niche by the well: a small rain had been drizzling all the afternoon, and still it fell fast and quietly. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.
- We saw a new statue put in its niche yesterday, alongside of one which had been standing these four hundred years, they said. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Altogether a man who seems made for his niche, mamma; sagacious, and strong, as becomes a great tradesman. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
- With this prospect before him, we shall get Fred into the right niche somehow, and I hope I shall live to join your hands. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.
- Not far from here was a niche where they used to preserve a piece of the True Cross, but it is gone, now. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The angels that I know are creatures of unstable fancy--they will not fit in niches of substantial stone. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- But the niches that had contained the ashes of these renowned crusaders were empty. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
整理:蒂娜