steeple
发音
英 [ˈsti:pl]
美 [ˈstipəl]
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- n.
- （教堂的）尖塔，尖顶
- （女用）尖塔形头巾
单词词源
steeple 教堂的尖塔
来自古英语 stepel,高塔，词源同 steep,高耸的，-el,小词后缀。引申词义教堂的尖塔。
双语例句
- 1. Again and again he dwells on the fact that the thing in the steeple knows where to find him .
- 就这样一次又一次，他越来越确信，尖塔中的恶魔已然对他的所在了如指掌。
- 2. In one corner of the cobwebbed chamber a ladder was built into the wall , leading up to the closed trap door of the windowless steeple above .
- 蛛网遍布的房间角落的墙中开了一段梯子，连着一道活板门，直通不见天日的尖塔之中。
- 3. A church bell usually resides in a steeple and the exercise involved has to do with repeatedly pulling on a rope .
- 教堂的钟通常放在一个尖顶中，需要做的劳动就是要重复不停的拉绳子。
- 4. The night of our birth , a thunderstorm had cracked a tree in the courtyard of the new church , setting the building afire until it was no more than a charred sliver of steeple and smoking pews .
- 我们出生的那个晚上，雷暴劈倒了新教堂大院里的一棵树，整个建筑着了火，最后只剩下了烧焦了的尖塔裂片和冒着烟的教堂板凳。