fireside 英 [ˈfaɪəsaɪd]   美 [ˈfaɪərsaɪd]

fireside

fireside  英 [ˈfaɪəsaɪd] 美 [ˈfaɪərsaɪd]

n. 炉边;家庭  adj. 炉边的;非正式的 

名词复数:firesides 

What would she think if she found him sitting there with the air of intimacy implied by waiting alone in the dusk at a lady's fireside? 他想,他的未婚妻有可能来这儿看望她的表姐,倘若她发现他坐在这儿,只身在一位夫人炉边的昏暗中等待着,对这种亲密的样子她会怎样想呢?
Whether he could out-argue those clean-cut fireside frolics, with “real pleasure” dangling from his lower lip, he never knew. 他是否能够驳倒那些下嘴唇叼着“真正快乐”(的香烟)、潇洒的在火炉边嬉戏的人,他永远不会知道。

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  • n. 炉边;家庭
  • adj. 炉边的;非正式的
  • 1. What would she think if she found him sitting there with the air of intimacy implied by waiting alone in the dusk at a lady's fireside?

    他想,他的未婚妻有可能来这儿看望她的表姐,倘若她发现他坐在这儿,只身在一位夫人炉边的昏暗中等待着,对这种亲密的样子她会怎样想呢?

  • 2. Whether he could out-argue those clean-cut fireside frolics, with “real pleasure” dangling from his lower lip, he never knew.

    他是否能够驳倒那些下嘴唇叼着“真正快乐”(的香烟)、潇洒的在火炉边嬉戏的人,他永远不会知道。

  • 3. Night had come. He laboriously dragged a table and the old arm-chair to the fireside, and placed upon the table a pen, some ink and some paper.

    夜已来临,他很吃力地把一张桌子和一把旧扶手椅拖到壁炉边,在桌上放下笔、墨水和纸张。

  • fireside (n.) also fire-side, 1560s, from fire (n.) + side (n.). Symbolic of home life by 1848. As an adjective from 1740s; especially suggesting the intimately domestic.
fire·side / ˈfaɪəsaɪd ; NAmE ˈfaɪərsaɪd / noun [usually singular ] the part of a room beside the fire 炉边 sitting by the fireside 坐在炉边 fireside firesides fire·side / ˈfaɪəsaɪd ; NAmE ˈfaɪərsaɪd /
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