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单词 stokehole
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stokehole

/ˈstəʊkhəʊl /
noun
A space in front of a furnace in which a stoker works.As he indicates, her ‘whole personality’ is ‘crushed’ in the stokehole....
  • Despite Mildred's claims of sincerity, her aunt scornfully refers to her as ‘artificial’ in her social concern and a ‘poser’ in her expressed desire to find a ‘new thrill’ and ‘touch life’ by visiting the stokehole.
  • The play's opening scene presents life in the cramped stokehole, where ‘the ceiling crushes down on the men's heads’ and the attitudes of the stooping, proto-simian workers suggest beasts in a cage, ‘imprisoned by white steel.’
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