n. (教堂的)尖塔,尖顶;(女用)尖塔形头巾 复数: steeples 易混淆的单词: Steeple
中文词源
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。
steeple 用法和例句
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。
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。
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。
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 .