Chimney
['tʃɪmnɪ] or ['tʃɪmni]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a vertical flue that provides a path through which smoke from a fire is carried away through the wall or roof of a building.
校對:伍德罗--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A fireplace or hearth.
(n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft.
(n.) A tube usually of glass, placed around a flame, as of a lamp, to create a draft, and promote combustion.
(n.) A body of ore, usually of elongated form, extending downward in a vein.
阿方斯校對
解釋/意思:
n. a passage for the escape of smoke or heated air from a furnace: in houses that part of the passage which is built above the roof: anything of a like shape.—ns. Chim′ney-can or -pot a cylindrical pipe of earthenware or other material placed at the top of a chimney to increase the draught; Chim′ney-cor′ner in old chimneys the space between the fire and the wall forming the sides of the fireplace: fireside commonly spoken of as the place for the aged and infirm; Chim′ney-piece a shelf over the fireplace; Chim′ney-shaft the stalk of a chimney which rises above the building; Chim′ney-Stack a group of chimneys carried up together; Chim′ney-stalk a very tall chimney; Chim′ney-swall′ow the Hirundo rustica a very common swallow: the chimney-swift; Chim′ney-sweep Chim′ney-sweep′er one who sweeps or cleans chimneys; Chim′ney-top the top of a chimney.—Chimney-pot hat a familiar name for the ordinary cylindrical hat of gentlemen.
乔整理
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To dream of seeing chimneys, denotes a very displeasing incident will occur in your life. Hasty intelligence of sickness will be borne you. A tumble down chimney, denotes sorrow and likely death in your family. To see one overgrown with ivy or other vines, foretells that happiness will result from sorrow or loss of relatives. To see a fire burning in a chimney, denotes much good is approaching you. To hide in a chimney corner, denotes distress and doubt will assail you. Business will appear gloomy. For a young woman to dream that she is going down a chimney, foretells she will be guilty of some impropriety which will cause consternation among her associates. To ascend a chimney, shows that she will escape trouble which will be planned for her.
錄入:洛根
例句/造句/用法:
- The boiler was tubular, and the exhaust steam was carried into the chimney by a pipe in front of the smoke stack as shown. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- When I left, Estella was yet standing by the great chimney-piece, just as she had stood throughout. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- I design to secrete it in the wall of the chimney, where I have slowly and laboriously made a place of concealment for it. 查理斯·狄更斯. 雙城記.
- My eye had been caught by a gun with a brass-bound stock over the chimney-piece, and his eye had followed mine. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- At those times he glanced in the chimney-glass to see what note the old man took of him. 查理斯·狄更斯. 我們共同的朋友.
- There was hair upon the end, which blazed and shrunk into a light cinder, and, caught by the air, whirled up the chimney. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- As evening drew in, the storm grew higher and louder, and the wind cried and sobbed like a child in the chimney. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- Is there a chimney on fire? 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Phil announcing it, Mr. George knocks the ashes out of his pipe on the hob, stands his pipe itself in the chimney corner, and sits down to the meal. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He has been standing on the hearthstone with his back to the smoked chimney-piece, and now turns round with his glasses to his eyes. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- Sophie is my nurse; she came with me over the sea in a great ship with a chimney that smoked--how it did smoke! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 簡·愛.
- But this table, which is present to me, and the chimney, may and do exist separately. 大衛·休謨. 人性論.
- The burning logs gave warmth to the cabin and served as a primitive cooking agent; and the smoke which usually accompanies burning bodies was carried away by means of the chimney. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- There are two ways of contracting a chimney; one by contracting the opening _before_ the fire, the other by contracting the funnel _above_ the fire. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- Across the road at the sawmill smoke was coming out of the chimney and Anselmo could smell it blown toward him through the snow. 歐尼斯特·海明威. 喪鐘為誰而鳴.
- Young boys have been smothered in chimneys before now,' said another gentleman. 查理斯·狄更斯. 霧都孤兒.
- The fourth side was the house, a quaint, low-roofed, old-fashioned place, with deep diamond-paned lattices, and stacks of curiously-twisted chimneys. 福爾斯·休姆. 奇幻島.
- Why, he sees those chimneys--the tallest ones! 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- So strange to turn from the chimneys to the birds. 查理斯·狄更斯. 艱難時事.
- How could you think of writing to me about chimneys and fires in such weather as this! 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- The climate is mild; they never have snow or ice, and I saw no chimneys in the town. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The drawn blinds and the smokeless chimneys, however, gave it a stricken look, as though the weight of this horror still lay heavy upon it. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯歷險記.
- The illumination from a shaded oil lamp is soft and agreeable, but the trimming of the wicks, the refilling of bowls, and the cleaning of chimneys require time and labor. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- In this blue clay or Kimberlite in these chimneys, is found nature’s most wonderful creation, the diamond crystallized from pure carbon, in intense heat, and under titanic pressure. 佚名. 神奇的知識之書.
- You could see a high gable, then a long front, then a low gable, then a thick, lofty stack of chimneys. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- This is seen in narrow stove chimneys, when a _sacheverell_ or blower is used, which still more contracts the narrow opening. 本傑明·佛蘭克林. 佛蘭克林自傳.
- During his rounds in the night Swanson would find time to collect from the chimneys the soot that the lamps gave. 弗蘭克·路易斯·戴爾. 愛迪生的生平和發明.
- There are no windows to a Syrian hut, and no chimneys. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- There were the piles of city roofs and chimneys, more free from smoke than on week-days; and there were the distant masts and steeples. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- From a grove upon our left I could already see the high chimneys and the flag-staff which marked the squire's dwelling. 亞瑟·柯南·道爾. 福爾摩斯回憶錄.
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