单词 | roof |
释义 | roof I. 1. a. (1) < the long interior … has a handsome open timber roof decorated in polychrome — American Guide Series: Connecticut > < its principal room is the Livery Hall, high ceilinged, with decorated roof, chandeliers, and tall marble pillars — Gerard Foy > (2) < finds herself without a roof over her head — H.M.Parshley > < placing … the most distressed families under roof — U.S. Code > b. < had his roof and taught physics in a boy's school — D.C.Peattie > < why not … share the same roof — Virginia Woolf > c. < the house has a slate roof > < slag or gravel roof > < coal tar, pitch, and felt roof > 2. a. (1) < in the desolate mountains at the roof of the … world — Newsweek > (2) < what the nation needed … was a floor under some prices and a roof over others — Time > < both wool and rubber … have gone through the roof — America > b. < agency to put a permanent roof over the temporary consolidation of the independent housing agencies — Time > c. < this majestic roof fretted with golden fire — Shakespeare > < beneath this small blue roof of vernal sky — S.T.Coleridge > d. (1) < from under shady arborous roof — John Milton > < some do rise above the jungle roof — C.H.Curran > (2) 3. a. b. c. < roof of the skull > < roof of a cavity > 4. a. (1) (2) (3) b. ![]() II. 1. a. < had the passage at the entrance of the house repaired and roofed — Thomas Carlyle > < the thatcher mounts his ladder … with his burden of straw, roofing the corn built to be its own storehouse — Adrian Bell > b. < originally roofed with handmade shingles — American Guide Series: Louisiana > 2. a. < maple trees roofed every street with gold — Janet Whitney > < the mountains which roof their mines — Christian Science Monitor > b. |
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