steeple
steeple 英 [ˈsti:pl] 美 [ˈstipəl]
n. 尖塔；尖顶 vt. 把…建成尖塔
名词复数:steeples
- A steeple is a very tall tower that gets smaller and smaller as it goes up. Many churches have steeples. Steeples are really tall so people can find the church from anywhere in town.
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- n. 尖塔；尖顶
- vt. 把…建成尖塔
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1. Golan said steeple Hill was also trying to shed the preachy tone of some Christian fiction.
戈兰指出，“尖塔山”从书也试图摆脱某些基督教小说的说教气息。
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2. It was a hope rooted in Winthrop’s Christian faith, and no doubt he imagined his city on a hill with a steeple in the center.
这种希望源于温思罗普的基督教信仰；毫无疑问，在他的想象中，这座山顶之城的中央将矗立着一座教堂的尖塔。
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3. One witness called it “the most frightening thing of my entire life,” And television footage showed a person clinging to a window in the cathedral’s steeple.
一位目击者说这是他有生以来遇到的最恐怖事件。 电视录像显示一人此时紧贴在尖塔的窗户上。
- steeple (n.) Old English stepel (Mercian), stiepel (West Saxon) "high tower," related to steap "high, lofty," from Proto-Germanic *staupilaz (see steep (adj.)). Also the name of a lofty style of women's head-dress from the 14th century. Steeple-house (1640s) was the old Quaker way of referring to "a church edifice," to avoid in that sense using church, which had with them a more restricted meaning.
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