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tent

/tent/US // tɛnt //UK // (tɛnt) //

帐篷,帐蓬,帐幕,帐篷里

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a portable shelter of skins, canvas, plastic, or the like, supported by one or more poles or a frame and often secured by ropes fastened to pegs in the ground.
    • : something that resembles a tent.
    • : tent dress.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to lodge in tents.
    • : to cover with or as if with a tent: In winter the tennis courts are tented in plastic.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to live in a tent; encamp.

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Examples

  • Finally, the future arrives in the Andes, at the ranch Hacienda El Porvenir, which translates as “the future,” where you’ll spend 24 hours venturing no more than 30 feet from a tent, alone, with a journal.

  • Over the course of 16 days, it’s what kept my key items—a sleeping bag, pillow, tent, cell phone, and journal—dry.

  • Maghsoodnia notes that having separate buildings, tents or dorms to quarantine sick students is a big challenge for universities.

  • Investing thousands of dollars in tents, fans and evaporative cooling equipment, they’ve managed to hide from the sun, keep social distancing and maintain business.

  • Give people a peek inside of the tent who think they know but don’t know.

  • Wedged between two marble buildings at the lavishly designed Lincoln Center, sits a single white tent.

  • While quarantined, she was seemingly powerless to challenge her banishment to a tent in Newark.

  • But there remains an underlying air of stress, from the media tent to the concession stands.

  • Santorum embraced a more pragmatic big-tent approach to these candidates.

  • The smaller “Flood Wall Street” eschewed the big-tent approach and focused on radical politics and aggressive activism.

  • The Duchess had also a tent for their sick men; so that we had a small town of our own here, and every body employed.

  • Two young lovers were exchanging their hearts' yearnings beneath the children's tent, which they had found unoccupied.

  • The children possessed themselves of the tent, and Mrs. Pontellier went over to join them.

  • It was a sad day for Ramona and Alessandro when the kindly Hyers pulled up their tent-stakes and left the valley.

  • They lived at first in a tent; no time to build a house, till the wheat and vegetables were planted.