Recess
[rɪ'ses;'riːses] or ['risɛs]
解释:
(noun.) an enclosure that is set back or indented.
(noun.) a small concavity.
(verb.) make a recess in; 'recess the piece of wood'.
(verb.) put into a recess; 'recess lights'.
詹尼弗编辑--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) A withdrawing or retiring; a moving back; retreat; as, the recess of the tides.
(n.) The state of being withdrawn; seclusion; privacy.
(n.) Remission or suspension of business or procedure; intermission, as of a legislative body, court, or school.
(n.) Part of a room formed by the receding of the wall, as an alcove, niche, etc.
(n.) A place of retirement, retreat, secrecy, or seclusion.
(n.) Secret or abstruse part; as, the difficulties and recesses of science.
(n.) A sinus.
(v. t.) To make a recess in; as, to recess a wall.
(n.) A decree of the imperial diet of the old German empire.
编辑:梅根
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Retreat, nook, corner, niche, place of retirement.[2]. Intermission, respite, remission of labor, suspension of business.
克拉丽斯编辑
同义词及反义词：
SYN:Cavity, nook, withdrawal, retirement, retreat, seclusion, privacy, vacation,holiday
ANT:Promontory, protrusion, projection, publicity, worktime
手打:米米
解释:
n. a going back or withdrawing: retirement: seclusion: a period of remission of business: part of a room formed by a receding of the wall: a retired spot: a nook: a sinus or depressed par.—v.t. to make a recess in: to put into a recess.—adj. Recessed′ having a recess.—Recessed arch one arch within another.
录入:梅林达
例句:
- A harp, and other matters of a very uncanonical appearance, were also visible when this dark recess was opened. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The recess beneath the counter in which his flock mattress was thrust, looked like a grave. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- I remained in a recess of the rock, gazing on this wonderful and stupendous scene. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- The fifteen minutes seemed an hour, but they came to an end at last, and the word 'Recess! 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
- And even if she were not, the sound of the bell would penetrate every recess of her tiny apartment, and rouse her to answer her friend's call. 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- He proposed in the recess--in the room that used to be a picture-gallery--that Sir Monckton converted into it saloon? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
- A dull light placed in the deep recess of the window, made little impression on the arched room. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
- I found Sherlock Holmes alone, however, half asleep, with his long, thin form curled up in the recesses of his armchair. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯历险记.
- Mr. Tulkinghorn rises with his hands in his pockets and walks into one of the window recesses. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
- She was too self-engrossed to penetrate the recesses of his shyness, and besides, why should she care to give herself the trouble? 伊迪丝·华顿. 快乐之家.
- Probably early men did not go deeply into the caves, because they had no means of lighting their recesses. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
- The middle ages carefully repressed the minds of men, and hid away in dark recesses the instruments of learning. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
- They penetrate into the recesses of nature, and shew how she works in her hiding places. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- Yet more was amiss with him than Miss Peecher's simply arranged little work-box of thoughts, fitted with no gloomy and dark recesses, could hold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- She went and curled herself up on the window-seat in the small, deeply-recessed window. 伊丽莎白·盖斯凯尔. 南方与北方.
校对:迈克尔