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eaves

US // (iːvz) //

屋檐,檐下,檐口,屋檐下

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Definitions

  1. 1
    • : the edge of a roof that projects beyond the wall

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • Every roof includes long eaves to protect peasants from the frequent rains.

  • All the writing is done at home, in my bedroom, up under the eaves of the house.

  • Eaves, who has been a cruise passenger in the past, says it is his “duty to the future” to be a catalyst for change.

  • Your old homestead is the loveliest place around, with its deep eaves and dormer-windows and vines.

  • Husky crows awake in the pine trees, and doves under the temple eaves.

  • They climbed a ladder and found the barn-swallow's nest plastered under the eaves of the barn.

  • So still was the place that the caged cricket hanging from the eaves of Um's distant room beat time like an elfin metronome.

  • The gallery above is an open eaves gallery like those in north Italy.