alcove
alcove 英 [ˈælkəʊv] 美 [ˈælkoʊv]
n. 凹室；壁龛
名词复数:alcoves
- Chapels in churches are often alcoves. Picture one set off to the side with a vaulted ceiling, separated by pillars and a small railing. See that and you see an alcove, defined.
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- n. 凹室；壁龛
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1. There’s an alcove with a small sink and mirror, and a door to the tiny, but private lavatory.
壁龛里有一个小小的洗脸盆和一面镜子，一扇门通往一个微型但私用的厕所间。
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2. Stepping into a darkened alcove, he shed his coat, revealing the blue blazer he wore underneath.
等进到一个昏暗的凹室，他脱下外套，显出了穿在里面的蓝色上衣。
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3. Allegedly, Henry secretly kept it in a heart-shaped casket in a church alcove in Suffolk, until it was rediscovered in 1836 and reburied underneath the church's organ.
据说亨利命人把安妮的心掏了出来，然后把它放在一个心型的盒子里并保存在萨克福马一座教堂的壁龛里。 人们在1836年发现了它，把它和原先安葬在教堂的遗骸一起安葬。
- alcove (n.) "vaulted recess," 1670s, from French alcôve (17c.), from Spanish alcoba, from Arabic al-qobbah "the vaulted chamber," from Semitic base q-b-b "to be bent, crooked, vaulted." The al- is the Arabic definite article, "the."
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