gable
gable 英 [ˈgeɪbl] 美 ['ɡeɪbl]
n. 山形墙；三角形饰物 vt. 在…上砌三角墙；在…安装三角形饰物 vi. 形成三角墙；形成三角形饰物
名词复数:gables
- A gable is the triangular part of a house's exterior wall that supports a pointed or peaked roof. Gothic-style houses are well known for their many gables. Now that you know this word, you can picture Nathaniel Hawthorne's "House of the Seven Gables."
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- n. 山形墙；三角形饰物
- vt. 在…上砌三角墙；在…安装三角形饰物
- vi. 形成三角墙；形成三角形饰物
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1. Deficiencies in research design have held back progress in identifying HIV prevention interventions, say Stephen W. Lagakos and Alicia R. gable in the New England Journal of Medicine.
Stephen W. Lagakos和Alicia R. Gable在最新一期《新英格兰医学杂志》上撰文指出，在研究设计方面的弱点妨碍了在发现预防艾滋病战略方面取得进展。
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2. He checked in at the old Chateau Élysée, on Franklin Avenue. Clark gable and Katharine Hepburn had once stayed there, but when Haggis arrived it was a run-down church retreat called the Manor Hotel.
他住进富兰克林大道上的老爱丽舍宫，克拉克盖博和凯瑟琳赫本曾经有一次住过那儿，但是当哈吉斯到那儿时，它已经是一个破败的教会收容所，名叫庄园酒店。
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3. In 1999, the American Film Institute named gable seventh among the greatest male stars of all time.
1999年，美国电影协会第七次将盖博称为史上最伟大的男影星之一。
- gable (n.) "end of a ridged roof cut off in a vertical plane, together with the wall from the level of the eaves to the apex," mid-14c., "a gable of a building; a facade," from Old French gable "facade, front, gable," from Old Norse gafl "gable, gable-end" (in north of England, the word probably is directly from Norse), according to Watkins, probably from Proto-Germanic *gablaz "top of a pitched roof" (source also of Middle Dutch ghevel, Dutch gevel, Old High German gibil, German Giebel, Gothic gibla "gable"). This is traced to a PIE *ghebh-el- "head," which seems to have yielded words meaning both "fork" (such as Old English gafol, geafel, Old Saxon gafala, Dutch gaffel, Old High German gabala "pitchfork," German Gabel "fork;" Old Irish gabul "forked twig") and "head" (such as Old High German gibilla, Old Saxon gibillia "skull"). See cephalo-.
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