Rotunda
[rə(ʊ)'tʌndə] or [ro'tʌndə]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a large circular room.
(noun.) a building having a circular plan and a dome.
錄入:玛莎--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(a.) A round building; especially, one that is round both on the outside and inside, like the Pantheon at Rome. Less properly, but very commonly, used for a large round room; as, the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington.
錄入:里基
例句/造句/用法:
- The great feature of the Mosque of Omar is the prodigious rock in the centre of its rotunda. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The Baptistery, which is a few years older than the Leaning Tower, is a stately rotunda, of huge dimensions, and was a costly structure. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- The dome is 135 feet 5 inches in diameter at the base, and the open space of the rotunda within is 96 feet in diameter and 180 feet high. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- Entering the great Rotunda, we stand before the most sacred locality in Christendom--the grave of Jesus. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- Before he devoted all his time to his invention Morse had been anxious to paint a large historical picture for one of the panels in the rotunda of the Capitol at Washington. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
整理:贾丝廷