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shoji

/shoh-zhee, -jee/US // ˈʃoʊ ʒi, -dʒi //UK // (ˈʃəʊʒiː, -dʒiː) //

寿司,庄吉,庄家,庄严

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural sho·ji, sho·jis.

    • : a light screen consisting of a framework of wood covered with paper or other translucent material, used originally in Japanese homes as one of a series of sliding panels between the interior and exterior or between two interior spaces.

Examples

  • The local people open their homes to show off their treasures inside: artworks, Shoji screens, their homes.

  • Meister, like Shoji, is a designer who consistently dresses plus-size stars.

  • Shoji next are opened, disclosing often the dull green mosquito net hung from corner to corner of the low-ceiled sleeping rooms.

  • Two of the four walls of the guest-room were of shoji, a lattice covered with translucent rice-paper.

  • With very cautious fingers she began now to separate the shoji that opened on the garden side.

  • In the deep, following silence each knew that old Mata's ear felt, like a hand, at the crevice of the shoji.

  • Um-ko in her room forgot her sewing, and leaned a delicate ear closer to the shoji.