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doorway

/dawr-wey, dohr-/US // ˈdɔrˌweɪ, ˈdoʊr- //UK // (ˈdɔːˌweɪ) //

门洞,门洞洞,门洞里,门洞里的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the passage or opening into a building, room, etc., commonly closed and opened by a door; portal.
    • : a means of access: a doorway to success.

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Examples

  • To do a door-frame row, which targets your arms and back, stand in front of an open doorway.

  • This suggests that a dirty doorway keeps hornets from trespassing on the hive.

  • Now they bring visions of congressional staffers huddling under a table, angry men tossing a journalist over a barrier and a police officer crying out in pain as a chaotic crowd crushes him in a doorway.

  • The photographer said he thought the image was taken in a doorway near the northwest corner of the Capitol.

  • He couldn’t resist talking to a neighbor at his doorway when the building went off pandemic lockdown a few weeks ago.

  • Black and purple bunting went up over the doorway at the 84th Precinct stationhouse where Ramos and Liu had been assigned.

  • The man pleaded with them while his wife stood in the doorway of the bus holding their baby.

  • Looking for a place to get a salad, we pass a gift shop with a rack of dresses near the doorway.

  • He pushed past a female curate and raced towards the exit, but Father Andrew Cain got to the doorway first.

  • He is standing in a doorway looking at his wife, who is sitting in front of a computer wearing a telephone headset.

  • He returned shortly, to meet his mother standing in the doorway, with pale, affrighted face.

  • Father Gaspara was about to ask another question, when Ramona appeared in the doorway, flushed with running.

  • Then a fat, untidy old man appeared in the doorway of a cubicle within the shop, and Edwin Clayhanger blushed.

  • Goodell paused in the doorway and emitted a whistle of surprise at sight of a horse in one of the stalls.

  • And saying a hasty good afternoon, he popped through his doorway and vanished at Billy Woodchuck's feet.