Rotunda
[rə(ʊ)'tʌndə] or [ro'tʌndə]
解释:
(noun.) a large circular room.
(noun.) a building having a circular plan and a dome.
录入:玛莎--From WordNet
解释:
(a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
录入:里基
例句:
- The great feature of the Mosque of Omar is the prodigious rock in the centre of its rotunda. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The Baptistery, which is a few years older than the Leaning Tower, is a stately rotunda, of huge dimensions, and was a costly structure. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- The dome is 135 feet 5 inches in diameter at the base, and the open space of the rotunda within is 96 feet in diameter and 180 feet high. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世纪发明进展.
- Entering the great Rotunda, we stand before the most sacred locality in Christendom--the grave of Jesus. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- Before he devoted all his time to his invention Morse had been anxious to paint a large historical picture for one of the panels in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
整理:贾丝廷