house-raising / ˈhaʊsˌreɪ zɪŋ /

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house-raising 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a gathering of persons in a rural community to help one of its members build a house.

更多house-raising例句

  1. This Congress will welcome more women than ever before at 19 percent of the House and 20 percent of the Senate.
  2. Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
  3. The benefits of incumbency are quite potent, especially in the all-important area of raising campaign funds.
  4. He then provides some insight into his psyche - complete with Animal House reference.
  5. Even the arguably more democratic House is only at 10 percent black members.
  6. It was a decayed house of superb proportions, but of a fashion long passed away.
  7. A Yankee, whose face had been mauled in a pot-house brawl, assured General Jackson that he had received his scars in battle.
  8. On the thirteenth of the same month they bound to the stake, in order to burn alive, a man who had two religious in his house.
  9. Old Mrs. Wurzel and the buxom but not too well-favoured heiress of the house of Grains were at the head of the table.
  10. It goes without saying that Ferns of all kinds are interesting plants to grow in the garden and house.