Vault
[vɔːlt] or [vɔlt]
解释:
(noun.) the act of jumping over an obstacle.
(noun.) an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.
(noun.) a burial chamber (usually underground).
(noun.) a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables.
(verb.) bound vigorously.
(verb.) jump across or leap over (an obstacle).
编辑:菲利普--From WordNet
解释:
(n.) An arched structure of masonry, forming a ceiling or canopy.
(n.) An arched apartment; especially, a subterranean room, use for storing articles, for a prison, for interment, or the like; a cell; a cellar.
(n.) The canopy of heaven; the sky.
(n.) A leap or bound.
(n.) The bound or leap of a horse; a curvet.
(n.) A leap by aid of the hands, or of a pole, springboard, or the like.
(v. t.) To form with a vault, or to cover with a vault; to give the shape of an arch to; to arch; as, vault a roof; to vault a passage to a court.
(v. i.) To leap over; esp., to leap over by aid of the hands or a pole; as, to vault a fence.
(n.) To leap; to bound; to jump; to spring.
(n.) To exhibit feats of tumbling or leaping; to tumble.
录入:纳丁
同义词及近义词：
n. [1]. Arched ceiling, arched roof, continued arch.[2]. Cell, cellar, cavity.[3]. Tomb, crypt, catacomb.[4]. Leap, bound, jump.
v. a. Arch, cover with an arch, arch over.
v. n. Leap, bound, jump, spring, CAPER.
乔校对
解释:
n. an arched roof: a chamber with an arched roof esp. one underground: a cellar: anything vault-like: a leap or spring by means of a pole or by resting the hands on something: the bound of a horse: a jump.—v.t. to shape as a vault: to arch: to roof with an arch: to form vaults in.—v.i. to curvet or leap as a horse: to leap: to exhibit feats of leaping or tumbling.—n. Vaul′tage (Shak.) an arched cellar: vaulted work.—adj. Vaul′ted arched: concave overhead: covered with an arch or vault.—ns. Vaul′ter one who vaults or leaps; Vaul′ting (archit.) vaulted work; Vaul′ting-horse a wooden horse used in gymnasiums for vaulting over.—adj. Vaul′ty (Shak.) arched concave.
编辑:威拉
娱乐性解释：
To dream of a vault, denotes bereavement and other misfortune. To see a vault for valuables, signifies your fortune will surprise many, as your circumstances will appear to be meagre. To see the doors of a vault open, implies loss and treachery of people whom you trust.
桃瑞丝整理
例句:
- But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
- The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I say the best prison is that which is made by the sexton--no dungeon like a church-vault! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
- The vault had been lately opened to place our Alfred therein. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- It was like sitting in a vault strewn with dead bodies--the cap, the noose, the pinioned arms, the faces that he knew, even beneath that hideous veil. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
- I saw her laid low in her kindred vaults, And her immortal part with angels lives. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
- There's doors under the church in the Square--black doors, leading into black vaults. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
- Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
- In the ivory storage vaults of one large company, there is held from $150,000 to $300,000 worth of ivory, ranging from the tusk up to the finished product. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
- He entered the churches, and foretold to the congregations their speedy removal to the vaults below. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I see, said he, thou dreamest already that our men-at-arms are in thy refectory and thy ale-vaults. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The delicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults and had their household gods and kitchen utensils with them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
- I vaulted to the ground below and ran swiftly toward the advancing party. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
- And of the vaulted chamber, whispered Locksley. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Some fell dead, many wounded, and the yells of the discomfited assailants vibrated under the vaulted roof of the tunnel, as they retired in disorder. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
- Methought I heard a noise, a step in the far chapel, which was re-echoed by its vaulted roof, and borne to me through the hollow passages. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- I vaulted over, and finding myself in a field, kept across it steadily with my back to the road. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I was girded, walled in, vaulted over, by seven-fold barriers of loneliness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
- The king's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred feet high. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
- The bare vaulting of trees along the Mall was ceiled with lapis lazuli, and arched above snow that shone like splintered crystals. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
录入:萨姆纳