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mantel

/man-tl/US // ˈmæn tl //UK // (ˈmæntəl) //

壁炉,钵盂,钵体,衣钵

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a construction framing the opening of a fireplace and usually covering part of the chimney breast in a more or less decorative manner.
    • : Also called mantelshelf. a shelf above a fireplace opening.

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Examples

  • Her mantel is adorned with a taper candle in a clay wine bottle alongside pillars and food-shaped candles on each side.

  • If you opt for a caricature, make room on the fireplace mantel for a cartoonish rendering of your masked face.

  • Matthew would fly to our mantel, pick up in his talons a small soapstone bear, fly over Sam and drop it on her head.

  • However, before you make room on the mantel for a framed image of your Vietnamese pangolin or Tasmanian devil, some research is required.

  • Some rest flush against a mantel, while others are made by graduating the ribbon, loop by loop, to make very large bows.

  • In her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, Mantel writes of her own childhood encounters with the paranormal.

  • Mantel did live in Saudi Arabia with her husband for nearly a decade, and this piece was originally published as memoir.

  • Author Hilary Mantel is under fire for writing a story about killing Margaret Thatcher.

  • His mantel is chock full of Oscars and Grammys (three of each).

  • Nick Lord, 25, wins commission to paint Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel for a portrait which will hang in the British Library.

  • When he was gone, Isaacson stood by the mantel-piece for nearly five minutes, thinking and motionless.

  • The lady of the roses went to the mirror over the untidy mantel piece, and looked at herself, as she answered.

  • Over the mantel in our parlor we have a picture of the lion's den, and it is one of the choicest of our family treasures.

  • We don't even have real big prizes—just a dinky little spoon sitting up on the mantel-piece to excite us as if it was a tiara.

  • Moodily he stood there, one hand on the high mantel shelf, one foot upon an andiron, his eyes upon the flames.