Aisle
[aɪl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) passageway between seating areas as in an auditorium or passenger vehicle or between areas of shelves of goods as in stores.
(noun.) part of a church divided laterally from the nave proper by rows of pillars or columns.
(noun.) a long narrow passage (as in a cave or woods).
校對:鲁珀特--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A lateral division of a building, separated from the middle part, called the nave, by a row of columns or piers, which support the roof or an upper wall containing windows, called the clearstory wall.
(n.) Improperly used also for the have; -- as in the phrases, a church with three aisles, the middle aisle.
(n.) Also (perhaps from confusion with alley), a passage into which the pews of a church open.
伊恩校對
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Passage, walk.
編輯:尼特
解釋/意思:
n. any lateral division of any part of a church whether of nave choir or transept. The word is often erroneously applied to the passage in a church between the pews or seats.—adj. Aisled (īld) having aisles.
乔斯林編輯
例句/造句/用法:
- At the foot of the throne these two parties separated and halted, facing each other at opposite sides of the aisle. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星公主.
- His pattering steps and mine alone were heard, when we entered the magnificent extent of nave and aisle of St. Peter's. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- After a time there walked towards us, down the aisle of the church, a man and a woman, coming to be married. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- I look at a boy in the aisle, and he makes faces at me. 查理斯·狄更斯. 大衛·科波菲爾.
- In twos we entered the chamber and marched down the broad Aisle of Hope, as it is called, to the platform in the centre of the hall. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- I lounged up the side aisle like any other idler who has dropped into a church. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- And with a haughty sneer for Zat Arras upon his handsome lips, he turned and strode to the throne steps and up the Aisle of Hope. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 火星戰神.
- There was a grass-grown track descending the forest aisle between hoar and knotty shafts and under branched arches. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- There were Blue shops and Buff shops, Blue inns and Buff inns--there was a Blue aisle and a Buff aisle in the very church itself. 查理斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外傳.
- No wonder that letters addressed to people here had never received an answer: as well despatch epistles to a vault in a church aisle. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- In vain I would then have turned from this scene, to darkened aisle or lofty dome, echoing with melodious praise. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- She and Birkin went unwillingly down the narrow aisle between the rusty wares. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- She held out her hand as the train resumed its level rush, and they stood exchanging a few words in the aisle. 伊蒂絲·華頓. 快樂之家.
- Five generations of my race sleep under the aisles of Briarfield Church. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- To make the matter worse, the church door had reopened, and the aisles were filling: patter, patter, patter, a hundred little feet trotted in. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Here are no aisles, no arches, no inscriptions, no banners. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
校對:帕蒂