Alcove
['ælkəʊv] or ['ælkov]
解釋/意思:
(n.) A recessed portion of a room, or a small room opening into a larger one; especially, a recess to contain a bed; a lateral recess in a library.
(n.) A small ornamental building with seats, or an arched seat, in a pleasure ground; a garden bower.
(n.) Any natural recess analogous to an alcove or recess in an apartment.
錄入:温德尔
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Recess.
整理:默尔
解釋/意思:
n. a recess in a room: any recess: a shady retreat.
艾伯纳錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- Instantly, silently, before my eyes, it vanished; so did the curtain and alcove: all that end of the garret became black as night. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- After the lovers again joined me, we supped together in the alcove. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- I found this vision of beauty in Perdita's alcove, in earnest conversation with its inmate. 瑪麗·雪萊. 最後一個人.
- As one is about to pass out of the library attention is arrested by an incongruity in the form of a cot, which stands in an alcove near the door. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- So plainly it shonethat it revealed the deep alcove with a portion of the tarnished scarlet curtain drawn over it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- My bed stood in a little alcove; on turning my face to the wall, the room with its bewildering accompaniments became excluded. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 維萊特.
- It was shady enough in the alcove, but I declare I quite dreaded the coming home again. 簡·奧斯丁. 曼斯費爾德莊園.
- It issued from the alcove, and thither Fanny hastened, a note in her hand, which she delivered to fingers that hardly seemed to have nerve to hold it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Around the sides of the room, bounding this open space, run two tiers of gallery, divided, as is the main floor beneath them; into alcoves of liberal dimensions. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
編輯:桑德拉