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escritoire

/es-kri-twahr/US // ˌɛs krɪˈtwɑr //UK // (ˌɛskrɪˈtwɑː) //

书写,写作,写字,撰写

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : writing desk.

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Examples

  • At one side of the room stood an escritoire, and from a lower drawer therein he took out a small box tightly nailed down.

  • He kept them in an escritoire he had brought from Spain, but there were always a few of them lying about in his sitting-room.

  • Oliver found him seated at his escritoire, with books and papers spread out before him.

  • He tore open the escritoire, and feeling blindly within it, found the key of the chest.

  • There are correspondences within this escritoire, worth all the wisdom of all the ministers of earth.