cornice
cornice 英 [ˈkɔ:nɪs] 美 [ˈkɔrnɪs]
n. 檐口，飞檐 vt. 装檐口
进行时:cornicing 过去式:corniced 过去分词:corniced 第三人称单数:cornices 名词复数:cornices
- If your friend wants you to help repair the cornice on his house, you’d better bring a ladder. The cornice is the decorative molding that stretches horizontally along the top of some buildings.
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- n. 檐口，飞檐
- vt. 装檐口
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1. Though it rained yesterday, the cornice is still dripping water.
尽管昨天下雨，檐口现在仍在滴水。
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2. cornice:a horizontal molded projection that crowns or completes a building or wall.
檐口：顶盖或结束某建筑或墙的一种水平的铸造的凸出物。
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3. This man seemed to me to lean over the cornice, and timidly whisper his half truth to the rude occupants who really knew it better than he.
在我看来，这位建筑师仿佛俯身在飞檐上，羞涩地向那粗鲁的住户私语着他的似是而非的真理，实际上住户比他还知道得更多。
- cornice (n.) 1560s, "a molded projection which crowns the part to which it is affixed," from Middle French corniche (16c.) or directly from Italian cornice "ornamental molding along a wall," perhaps from Latin coronis "curved line, flourish in writing," from Greek koronis "curved object" (see crown). Perhaps influenced by (or even from) Latin cornicem, accusative of cornix "crow" (compare corbel). Sense of "ornamental molding running round the walls of a room just below the ceiling" is from 1660s.
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