Parapet
['pærəpɪt]
解释:
(noun.) fortification consisting of a low wall.
(noun.) a low wall along the edge of a roof or balcony.
手打:谢莉--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A low wall, especially one serving to protect the edge of a platform, roof, bridge, or the like.
(n.) A wall, rampart, or elevation of earth, for covering soldiers from an enemy's fire; a breastwork. See Illust. of Casemate.
整理:莱昂内尔
同义词及近义词：
n. (Fort.) Breastwork (on a rampart).[2]. Breast wall (as on a bridge).
加德纳整理
解释:
n. a rampart breast-high to protect soldiers on a wall from the fire of an enemy: a breast-high wall on a bridge house-roof a platform &c. to prevent persons from falling over.—adj. Par′apeted having a parapet.
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例句:
- Some of his men had snatched a flag from the parapet of the fort, and others had taken a horse from the inside of the stockade. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The Governor of North Carolina called for everybody who could stand behind a parapet and shoot a gun, to join them. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Mr. Guppy, refolding his arms, resettles himself against the parapet, as resuming a conversation of interest. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- When I arrived there I rode my horse over the parapet just as Wright's three thousand prisoners were coming out. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- She crouches on the parapet outside for hours and hours. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- But his men struggled on until some of them got up to the very parapet covering the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- From the portico, from the eaves, from the parapet, from every ledge and post and pillar, drips the thawed snow. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- That is, he had lain down where the ground fell sharply away below the triple belt of wire and shouted up at the rock and earth parapet. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- I mean the endurance of bombardments, the necessity to attack, the life of the parapet. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
- Somebody was leaning out of my bedroom window, refreshing his forehead against the cool stone of the parapet, and feeling the air upon his face. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
- It was begun in 1857 and finished in 1864, with the exception of the parapet walls of the roadway, which were added in 1872-3. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- I got on his back, with my cudgel in my mouth, seized the parapet with both hands, and was instantly on the roof. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- Mr. Guppy and Mr. Weevle are the possessors of those eyes, and they have been leaning in conversation against the low stone parapet under the trees. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- Burnside, on the left, had advanced up east of the salient to the very parapet of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- Staggering as if struck by lightning, he lost his balance and tumbled over the parapet. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- Both listened to the thunder, which was loud, and to the rain, as it washed off the roof, and pattered on the parapets of the arches. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
- To give additional protection sand bags, bullet-proof, were placed along the tops of the parapets far enough apart to make loop-holes for musketry. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- All the streets leading from it were swept by artillery, cannon being intrenched behind temporary parapets. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- It was dusk when our troops under Sheridan went over the parapets of the enemy. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- At points on the San Cosme road parapets were thrown across, with an embrasure for a single piece of artillery in each. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
- The house-tops near the plaza were converted into infantry fortifications by the use of sand-bags for parapets. 尤利西斯·格兰特. U．S．格兰特的个人回忆录.
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