hearth
hearth 英 [hɑ:θ] 美 [hɑrθ]
n. 灶台；炉边；炉床；壁炉地面
名词复数:hearths
- If you are warming yourself by the fireplace, you are sitting by the hearth. The noun hearth refers to a fireplace and the area around it.
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- n. 灶台；炉边；炉床；壁炉地面
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1. The house door was ajar, too; light entered from its unclosed windows; Hindley had come out, and stood on the kitchen hearth, haggard and drowsy.
大厅的门也还是半开，从那没有关上的窗户那儿进来了光亮。 辛德雷已经出来了，站在厨房炉边，憔悴而懒塌塌的。
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2. His two companions seemed quite unsettled by this story, and as the flames crackled in the hearth they each took a copious mouthful of the brandy that was readily available nearby.
另外两个人听了他的故事都显得很不安，壁炉炉膛�传出劈劈啪啪的木柴燃烧的声音，他们都拿起身边的白兰地，大大地吞了一口。
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3. She returned to the hearth, and frankly extended her hand.
她又回到炉边，坦率地伸出她的手。
- hearth (n.) Old English heorð "hearth, fireplace, part of a floor on which a fire is made," also in transferred use "house, home, fireside," from Proto-Germanic *hertho- "burning place" (source also of Old Saxon and Old Frisian herth, Middle Dutch hert, Dutch haard, German Herd "floor, ground, fireplace"), from PIE *kerta-, from root *ker- (3) "heat, fire." Hearth-rug is from 1824. Hearth-stone is from early 14c.
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