中英
sconced
  • 简明
  • 柯林斯
  • vt.(以不守规矩为由)惩罚;<旧>保护,庇护(sconce 的过去式和过去分词)
  • 英英释义
  • n.
    • 1

      a candlestick with a flat side to be hung on the wall

    • 2

      a forbidding stronghold

      同义词:redoubt

  • 权威例句
  • 1.

    Wednesday morning's London Times was still cool from its afternoon journey from Rhyl as Hopkins carried it to a sofa underneath a sconced gas retort.

    NPR: Excerpt: 'Exiles'

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