steeple

pronunciation

UK [ˈsti:pl]word uk audio image

US [ˈstipəl] word us audio image

  • n.
    (教堂的)尖塔,尖顶
    (女用)尖塔形头巾

Word Origin

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。

Example

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。

more: >如何使用 "steeple" 造句