Steeple
['stiːp(ə)l] or ['stipl]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.
整理:史黛丝--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A spire; also, the tower and spire taken together; the whole of a structure if the roof is of spire form. See Spire.
丹尼整理
同義詞及近義詞：
n. Spire, tower, turret.
欧文校對
解釋/意思:
n. a tower of a church or building ending in a point: the high head-dress of the 14th century.—adj. Steep′led furnished with a steeple: adorned with or as with steeples or towers.—ns. Steep′le-hat a high and narrow-crowned hat; Steep′le-house an old Quaker name for the building in which believers meet for worship; Steep′lejack one who climbs steeples and chimney-stalks to make repairs.
手打:马吉
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see a steeple rising from a church, is a harbinger of sickness and reverses. A broken one, points to death in your circle, or friends. To climb a steeple, foretells that you will have serious difficulties, but will surmount them. To fall from one, denotes losses in trade and ill health.
編輯:西娅
例句/造句/用法:
- I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- His supposition was tested on a chur ch steeple at Paris, and, later, on the Puy de D?me, a mountain in Au vergne. 李貝. 西洋科學史.
- By means of a lens one can easily get on a visiting card a picture of a distant church steeple. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- I had known many of the grown people before and almost all the children, but now the very steeple began to wear a familiar and affectionate look. 查理斯·狄更斯. 荒涼山莊.
- He told Master Hans about this, and the optician fixed two lenses in a tube, and looking at the weathercock on a neighboring steeple saw that it seemed much nearer and to be upside down. 魯伯特·薩金特·荷蘭. 歷史性發明.
- He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess. 喬納森·斯威夫特. 格列佛遊記.
- The building is five hundred feet long by one hundred and eighty wide, and the principal steeple is in the neighborhood of four hundred feet high. 馬克·吐溫. 傻子出國記.
- At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. 瑪麗·雪萊. 弗蘭肯斯坦.
- And sure enough, afloat on the placid sea a league away, lay a great city, with its towers and domes and steeples drowsing in a golden mist of sunset. 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.
校對:鲁珀特