chimney
美音:
[´tʃımnı
]英音:
[´tʃımnı
]n.烟囱,灯罩
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chimney
/'tʃɪmnɪ; `tʃɪmnɪ/
n
1 structure through which smoke or steam is carried away from a fire, furnace, etc and through the roof or wall of a building 烟囱
*a blocked chimney 堵塞的烟囱
* factory chimneys 工厂的烟囱. =>illus at App
1 见附录1之插图, page vii.
2 glass tube that protects the flame of an oil-lamp from draughts (油灯的)玻璃灯罩.
3 (in mountaineering) narrow opening in a rock or cliff up which a person may climb (登山中)(岩石或峭壁中的)狭孔(可供人攀登的). =>illus at mountain 见mountain之插图.
chimney
n[C]chimney,
gutter[
Date: 1200-1300;
Language: Old French;Origin: cheminée, from
Late Latin caminata, from
Latin caminus
'fireplace', from
Greek kaminos]
a vertical pipe that allows smoke from a fire to pass out of a building up into the air, or the part of this pipe that is above the roof
We can't light a fire because the chimney hasn't been swept.a tall vertical structure containing a chimney
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smokestack a factory chimneytechnical a narrow opening in tall rocks or cliffs that you can climb up
smoke like a chimneyif someone smokes like a chimney, they smoke a lot of cigarettes or tobacco - used humorously
1. They came upon a hole in the chimney. 他们偶然发现烟囱里面有一个洞。
2. They located the right chimney by tapping at the walls and listening for the man´s cries. 他们通过叫击烟囱倾叫声而确定传出声音的那个烟囱。
3. The sorry-looking, blackened figure that emerged, admitted at once that he had tried to break into the shop during the night but had got stuck in the chimney. 那个看来满脸沮丧、浑身漆黑的家伙从烟囱里一出来,就承认头天夜里他企图到店里行窍,但让烟囱卡住了。
4. A chimney blocked by an accretion of soot 被聚积的煤烟子所堵塞的烟囱.
5. After chipping through a wall which was eighteen inches thick, they found that a man had been trapped in the chimney. 他们凿透了18英寸厚的墙壁,发现有个人卡在烟囱里。
6. Sparks from the fire were flying up the chimney. 火星沿著烟囱向上飘.
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