thatch
thatch 英 [θætʃ] 美 [θætʃ]
n. 茅草，杂草；浓密的头发；茅草屋顶 vt. 用茅草覆盖屋顶
进行时:thatching 过去式:thatched 过去分词:thatched 第三人称单数:thatches 名词复数:thatches
- When straw or other dried grasses are used to cover a roof, it's called thatch. People have used thatch to keep the rain out for at least 300 years.
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- n. 茅草，杂草；浓密的头发；茅草屋顶
- vt. 用茅草覆盖屋顶
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1. Acrid fumes of still-burning thatch — hours earlier the rooftops of orderly houses — assaulted my eyes and nose as I stepped out onto a bed of ashes in a smoldering rice field.
几个小时前还秩序井然的房屋，现在它们的屋顶都成了燃烧着的茅草。 我走出飞机踩到一片还未燃尽的稻田的灰烬上，刺鼻的烟味刺激着我的鼻子和眼睛。
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2. The two nuns in their dazzling white habits -- the beautiful-boned young nun and the warm-faced old -- would glide to the open cane-and-thatch schoolroom in darkness, and start the children singing.
两位修女，身穿耀眼的白色道服――年轻的修女身材姣好，年长的那位慈眉善目――会在夜色中悄然来到开着门的用藤条茅草搭建的教室里，让孩子们唱歌。
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3. Tess, being left alone with the younger children, went first to the outhouse with the fortune-telling book, and stuffed it into the thatch.
苔丝一个人留下来，同弟弟和妹妹呆在一起，就先拿着那本算命的书走到屋外，把它塞进茅草屋顶里。
- thatch (n.) Old English þæc "roof, thatch, cover of a building," from Proto-Germanic *thakam (source also of Old Norse þak, Old Frisian thek, Swedish tak, Danish tag, Middle Dutch, Dutch dak "roof," Old High German dah "covering, cover," German Dach "roof"), from PIE root *(s)teg- "to cover."
- thatch (v.) late 14c., thecchen, from Old English þeccan "to cover, cover over, conceal," in late Old English specifically "cover the roof of a house," related to þæc "roof, thatching material," from Proto-Germanic *thakjan (source also of Old Saxon thekkian, Old Norse þekja, Old Frisian thekka, Middle Dutch decken, Dutch dekken, Old High German decchen, German decken "to cover"), from PIE root *(s)teg- "to cover."
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