Rafter
['rɑːftə] or ['ræftɚ]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.
(verb.) provide (a ceiling) with rafters.
編輯:雷金纳德--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A raftsman.
(n.) Originally, any rough and somewhat heavy piece of timber. Now, commonly, one of the timbers of a roof which are put on sloping, according to the inclination of the roof. See Illust. of Queen-post.
(v. t.) To make into rafters, as timber.
(v. t.) To furnish with rafters, as a house.
(v. t.) To plow so as to turn the grass side of each furrow upon an unplowed ridge; to ridge.
編輯:梅尔维尔
解釋/意思:
n. an inclined beam supporting the roof of a house.—v.t. to furnish with rafters.—n. Raft′er-bird the spotted fly-catcher.—Principal rafter a main timber in supporting the weight of a roof.
錄入:伦纳德
例句/造句/用法:
- Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the court-yard. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- Having placed our studding in position and secured them by a plate running around the top we are ready for the rafters. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- I abode until roof and rafters crackled and crashed around me. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There is a good room under the roof of the stables--with sloping rafters. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- But I don't know how long the rafters may hold. 查理斯·狄更斯. 遠大前程.
- The thought of the rafters stirred her. 大衛·赫伯特·勞倫斯. 戀愛中的女人.
- He has found a red grave among the blazing rafters of his own castle and I alone am escaped to tell you. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot. 沃爾特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
- There were rafters from the torn-down floor above, lying loose on the ground--but they were too light. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
- It was a large room, with a rough splintery floor, unplastered rafters overhead, and two bedsteads on opposite sides. 查理斯·狄更斯. 小杜麗.
- It was a dim, mouldy, melancholy old room, with a low, raftered ceiling. 威爾基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
校對:塞尔玛