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单词 terraced
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Definition of terraced in English:

terraced

adjective ˈtɛrəstˈtɛrəst
  • 1British (of a house) forming part of a continuous row.

    a two-bedroom terraced cottage
    Example sentencesExamples
    • I lived at No 30 Victoria Street, a two-storey Edwardian red-brick terraced house, from 1997 until late in 2003.
    • Other members said allowing the conversion would ‘free up’ a terraced house in the village which the applicant owned, thus providing a young couple or family with the chance to gain affordable housing.
    • It's a little terraced house, built in the early 19th century and remodelled during the first world war for W J Bassett-Lowke, the toymaker celebrated for his model ships.
    • Mrs Little said the average price of a two-bedroom terraced house in Swindon was now £110,000 and a three-bedroom house in the town centre was about £150,000.
    • But in 1999, he returned to Glasgow, moving into the top flat of what had been the family's home in Bank Street - a faded terraced house in the heart of the city's student area.
    • Firefighters had to don breathing apparatus when they went into the terraced house, where they finally found a fridge was leaking ammonia, a colourless gas with a pungent smell, which is also toxic, corrosive and explosive in air.
    • The riverside terraced house where Christopher Wren used to live is now neighbour to the Cardinal Wolsey pub (book your Christmas party here) and a traffic-clogged roundabout.
    • Tracy's partner, Daniel McDaid, 35, spent hours putting up around 300 lights on the front of the terraced house in Heys Lane, Blackburn, on Monday night.
    • About 100 terraced houses in Vincent Street, Hampshire Street and Wiltshire Street will be demolished and new football pitches, plus two floodlit artificial pitches, will be built on the site.
    • He said his extended family had been living together in a terraced house in Bradford since 1964 and they now wanted to move out of cramped living conditions and move into a more spacious home where their family could continue to grow.
    • From the proceeds of a year on Broadway as Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, he bought a riverside terraced house in Limehouse, within sight of both Canary Wharf and Tower Bridge.
    • It used to be a down-at-heel area in the city's eastern suburbs, but today its rows of Victorian terraced houses, once populated by working families with noisy children, are the exclusive preserve of the nouveau riche.
    • Dickie Best has lived in the same modest terraced house on the same working-class estate for the past 50 years.
    • Managers at the Victory Day Nursery want to relocate to a three-storey terraced house in Cambridge Road while their premises in Battersea Park Road undergoes redevelopment.
    • Planning consultant Peter Torrible, acting for Barratt and Wilcon, said the South Milford development would be a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced houses, and apartments.
    • Six of the houses would be affordable low-cost homes, with the remainder a mix of two and four-bedroom houses and semi-detached and terraced housing.
    • There is now a shortage of properties in Bolton, particularly two-bedroom terraced houses,’ he said.
    • One of the main problems is that many of these urban terraced houses only have access to the garden area through the house.
    • The comedian, who celebrated his 100th birthday at his home in Hollywood four weeks ago, was born in the terraced house in Craighton Road, Eltham, on May 29, 1903.
    • The school office would no longer be crammed into a neighbouring terraced house and the school day would change from a six-period, 8.30 am to 1.30 pm day to a more traditional timetable.
  • 2(of land) having been formed into terraces.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • He suggests reloading denuded slopes with soil and terraced cultivation to arrest soil erosion.
    • The terraced landscaping on the entrance from the Tullow Road detracts the eye from some poor rear boundaries to dwellings on this entrance.
    • Today the ancient terraced fields edged with black rock have been carefully restored.
    • Behind every green hill there's another hill, with eucalyptus groves and banana trees and terraced fields of sweet potato and manioc and corn.
    • A livelihood is eked out from terraced plots, but every available patch of land is farmed.
    • The pear-shaped island consists of lowlands and terraced limestone plains.
    • The terrain near Alicante is quite nice with terraced olive groves on the mountainsides and orange groves in the valleys.
    • A circular wall surrounding the terraced parking area may feature the municipal emblems of Baffin communities.
    • When I awake hours later, mercifully Chongqing has disappeared and the Yangtze is flowing through attractive, verdant hills dotted with banana plantations and yellow terraced fields.
    • This beautiful new resort has landscaping, which integrates terraced lawns, geometric pools and pavilions.
    • In Bhutan, cows and yaks graze, rice and wheat grow, and people live up and down terraced land that seems to kiss endless blue sky above and melt into pristine waters below.
    • The islands are mostly terraced right to the top; it looks gorgeous but it means that every bit of land is being farmed.
    • Pimalai's architecture is reminiscent of a Balinese hideaway with its pavilions, pools and terraced lawns stepping down towards the beachfront Rak Talay restaurant.
    • Where land is life, highlanders turn mountainsides into terraced fields.
    • He said the authority would ask the government for permission to redevelop an abandoned slope off the forecourt of the temple and turn it into a four-level terraced site.
    • Already, Glover has started clearing one of his hillsides and developing contoured fields similar to the terraced strips of land the Hmong worked in the mountains.
    • Waiting for the bus, he looked out across terraced fields, at men, alone or in groups, standing on embankments between fields of paddy.
    • The green terraced fields and the smoke coming from the kitchen chimneys of the cottages below look like a picturesque oil painting.
    • We passed farmers working their terraced fields of potatoes and hops.
    • This woody, hilly temperate land with occasionally steep, sometimes even terraced vineyards of limestone and clay is ideal for the production of relatively delicate, fruity white wines.
 
 

Definition of terraced in US English:

terraced

adjectiveˈterəstˈtɛrəst
  • 1(of land) having been formed into a number of level areas resembling a series of steps.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • When I awake hours later, mercifully Chongqing has disappeared and the Yangtze is flowing through attractive, verdant hills dotted with banana plantations and yellow terraced fields.
    • A circular wall surrounding the terraced parking area may feature the municipal emblems of Baffin communities.
    • Pimalai's architecture is reminiscent of a Balinese hideaway with its pavilions, pools and terraced lawns stepping down towards the beachfront Rak Talay restaurant.
    • This beautiful new resort has landscaping, which integrates terraced lawns, geometric pools and pavilions.
    • Where land is life, highlanders turn mountainsides into terraced fields.
    • Behind every green hill there's another hill, with eucalyptus groves and banana trees and terraced fields of sweet potato and manioc and corn.
    • We passed farmers working their terraced fields of potatoes and hops.
    • A livelihood is eked out from terraced plots, but every available patch of land is farmed.
    • He suggests reloading denuded slopes with soil and terraced cultivation to arrest soil erosion.
    • This woody, hilly temperate land with occasionally steep, sometimes even terraced vineyards of limestone and clay is ideal for the production of relatively delicate, fruity white wines.
    • The islands are mostly terraced right to the top; it looks gorgeous but it means that every bit of land is being farmed.
    • The terrain near Alicante is quite nice with terraced olive groves on the mountainsides and orange groves in the valleys.
    • In Bhutan, cows and yaks graze, rice and wheat grow, and people live up and down terraced land that seems to kiss endless blue sky above and melt into pristine waters below.
    • Today the ancient terraced fields edged with black rock have been carefully restored.
    • The terraced landscaping on the entrance from the Tullow Road detracts the eye from some poor rear boundaries to dwellings on this entrance.
    • Already, Glover has started clearing one of his hillsides and developing contoured fields similar to the terraced strips of land the Hmong worked in the mountains.
    • The pear-shaped island consists of lowlands and terraced limestone plains.
    • The green terraced fields and the smoke coming from the kitchen chimneys of the cottages below look like a picturesque oil painting.
    • Waiting for the bus, he looked out across terraced fields, at men, alone or in groups, standing on embankments between fields of paddy.
    • He said the authority would ask the government for permission to redevelop an abandoned slope off the forecourt of the temple and turn it into a four-level terraced site.
  • 2British (of a house) in the style of a row house.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • About 100 terraced houses in Vincent Street, Hampshire Street and Wiltshire Street will be demolished and new football pitches, plus two floodlit artificial pitches, will be built on the site.
    • I lived at No 30 Victoria Street, a two-storey Edwardian red-brick terraced house, from 1997 until late in 2003.
    • Six of the houses would be affordable low-cost homes, with the remainder a mix of two and four-bedroom houses and semi-detached and terraced housing.
    • The riverside terraced house where Christopher Wren used to live is now neighbour to the Cardinal Wolsey pub (book your Christmas party here) and a traffic-clogged roundabout.
    • One of the main problems is that many of these urban terraced houses only have access to the garden area through the house.
    • Tracy's partner, Daniel McDaid, 35, spent hours putting up around 300 lights on the front of the terraced house in Heys Lane, Blackburn, on Monday night.
    • Other members said allowing the conversion would ‘free up’ a terraced house in the village which the applicant owned, thus providing a young couple or family with the chance to gain affordable housing.
    • It's a little terraced house, built in the early 19th century and remodelled during the first world war for W J Bassett-Lowke, the toymaker celebrated for his model ships.
    • There is now a shortage of properties in Bolton, particularly two-bedroom terraced houses,’ he said.
    • It used to be a down-at-heel area in the city's eastern suburbs, but today its rows of Victorian terraced houses, once populated by working families with noisy children, are the exclusive preserve of the nouveau riche.
    • From the proceeds of a year on Broadway as Salieri in Peter Shaffer's Amadeus, he bought a riverside terraced house in Limehouse, within sight of both Canary Wharf and Tower Bridge.
    • Managers at the Victory Day Nursery want to relocate to a three-storey terraced house in Cambridge Road while their premises in Battersea Park Road undergoes redevelopment.
    • He said his extended family had been living together in a terraced house in Bradford since 1964 and they now wanted to move out of cramped living conditions and move into a more spacious home where their family could continue to grow.
    • Mrs Little said the average price of a two-bedroom terraced house in Swindon was now £110,000 and a three-bedroom house in the town centre was about £150,000.
    • Dickie Best has lived in the same modest terraced house on the same working-class estate for the past 50 years.
    • Planning consultant Peter Torrible, acting for Barratt and Wilcon, said the South Milford development would be a mix of detached, semi-detached and terraced houses, and apartments.
    • The comedian, who celebrated his 100th birthday at his home in Hollywood four weeks ago, was born in the terraced house in Craighton Road, Eltham, on May 29, 1903.
    • But in 1999, he returned to Glasgow, moving into the top flat of what had been the family's home in Bank Street - a faded terraced house in the heart of the city's student area.
    • Firefighters had to don breathing apparatus when they went into the terraced house, where they finally found a fridge was leaking ammonia, a colourless gas with a pungent smell, which is also toxic, corrosive and explosive in air.
    • The school office would no longer be crammed into a neighbouring terraced house and the school day would change from a six-period, 8.30 am to 1.30 pm day to a more traditional timetable.
 
 
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