mantelpiece

英 [ˈmæntlpiːs]

美 [ˈmæntlpiːs]

n.  壁炉台

复数：mantelpieces　

TEM8

BNC.12976 / COCA.23730

牛津词典

noun

• 壁炉台
  a shelf above a fireplace

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 壁炉架;壁炉台
  Amantelpieceis a wood or stone shelf which is the top part of a border round a fireplace.
  1. On the mantelpiece are a pair of bronze Ming vases.
     壁炉台上是一对明代的青铜花瓶。

英英释义

noun

• shelf that projects from wall above fireplace
  1. in Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece
  Synonym:mantelmantlemantlepiecechimneypiece

双语例句

• I went and leaned against the mantelpiece, just across from Marguerite, and watched her dance.
  我背靠在壁炉上，正好面对着玛格丽特，我看着她跳舞。
• You even liked Nana to say that this was just the mantelpiece over here, and that the Neverland was all make-believe.
  你甚至很愿意听娜娜说，这只是壁炉罢了，永无乡不过是他们想像出来的。
• The cheques are on the mantelpiece.
  支票就在壁炉架上。
• A series of photographs on their mantelpiece show their daughter's progression from babyhood to adolescence.
  壁炉台上放着他们的女儿从婴孩期成长到青春期的一系列照片。
• Only the photographs on the mantelpiece really showed how much time had passed.
  只有壁炉台上的照片显示出流逝了多少时光。
• She had on the mantelpiece a vase of dried flowers and grasses.
  她在壁炉台上放了一花瓶各式干花草。
• It was placed on the mantelpiece, but slipped down behind the fireplace and was lost for over a decade.
  信寄到后，被顺手放在了壁炉台上，但却不小心滑到了壁炉后面。
• A great life lost so that someone far away can have a trinket on their mantelpiece.
  一个伟大的生命逝去了，远方某人的壁炉上可以多个饰品了。
• Estelle kept a photograph of her mother in a silver frame on the kitchen mantelpiece.
  埃丝特尔把母亲的一张镶银框的照片挂在厨房壁炉台上。
• There was a Chinese clay horse on the mantelpiece.
  壁炉台上有一匹中国陶制马。