Bower
['baʊə] or ['baʊɚ]
解釋/意思:
(v. & n.) One who bows or bends.
(v. & n.) An anchor carried at the bow of a ship.
(v. & n.) A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm.
(n.) One of the two highest cards in the pack commonly used in the game of euchre.
(n.) Anciently, a chamber; a lodging room; esp., a lady's private apartment.
(n.) A rustic cottage or abode; poetically, an attractive abode or retreat.
(n.) A shelter or covered place in a garden, made with boughs of trees or vines, etc., twined together; an arbor; a shady recess.
(v. t.) To embower; to inclose.
(v. i.) To lodge.
(n.) A young hawk, when it begins to leave the nest.
編輯:沃伦
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Arbor, shady recess, shady retreat.
校對:莱斯利
同義詞及反義詞：
SYN:Shady_recess, arbor, retreat, alcove
ANT:Open_place
手打:西格蒙德
解釋/意思:
n. a shady enclosure or recess in a garden an arbour: an inner apartment esp. the private room of a lady a boudoir.—n. Bow′er-bird an Australian bird of the Starling family remarkable for its habit of making bower-like erections ornamented with gay feathers shells &c.—adj. Bow′ery containing bowers: shady.
n. the name in euchre for the two highest cards the knave of trumps and the other knave of the same colour the right and left bower respectively.
編輯:罗比
娱乐性解釋/意思：
A shady retreat, in general.
达斯汀錄入
例句/造句/用法:
- When they had finished their breakfast Tarzan went to her bower and recovered his knife. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- This is a charming spot, is the Bower, but you must get to apprechiate it by degrees. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- He had again been gathering fruit and this he laid at the entrance of her bower. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- He removed his hunting knife from its sheath and handed it to her hilt first, again motioning her into the bower. 愛德格·賴斯·巴勒斯. 人猿泰山.
- Oh, won't you, won't you, won't you, won't you, come to the Bower? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Boffin's Bower is the name Mrs Boffin christened it when we come into it as a property. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There are no fish of the shark tribe in the Bower waters? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It is quite a bower in the summer-time. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- I am banished to the Bower, to be found in it like a piece of furniture whenever wanted. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- Wouldn't you like to see the Bower, and know a retired literary man of the name of Wegg that lives there--WITH a wooden leg? 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- It should be strewn with roses; it should lie through bowers, where there was no spring, autumn, nor winter, but perpetual summer. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Bowers, saw what he took to be a man seated on the ground and leaning against the stump, listening to the conversation between Meade and myself. 尤利西斯·格蘭特. U．S．格蘭特的個人回憶錄.
- The best known of the latter type is the Bowers hydraulic dredge, covered by many patents, of which Nos. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
整理:理查德