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windowsill

/win-doh-sil/US // ˈwɪn doʊˌsɪl //UK // (ˈwɪndəʊˌsɪl) //

窗台,窗台上,窗户,窗口

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the sill under a window.

Examples

  • Part of the rollout also means doubling the number of community gardens by 2030, since growing vegetables on a windowsill or balcony can get cramped, and space on the island is at a premium.

  • Friends have simply tied the string to nails or hooks along a windowsill.

  • Inchlong cinders had piled on my windowsills like falling snow.

  • That morning, he sat in the windowsill and began his day like every other: reading the Bible passage that coincided with the date.

  • It was called Windowsill Daydreaming, Rochester, New York, from 1958, and, despite its corny name, it stopped me in my tracks.

  • A rusty, iron key to the past sits on a windowsill in my home.

  • Just behind the frame, on the windowsill, is a brass logo for the now defunct William Morris Agency.

  • On my kitchen windowsill (yes, I have a windowed kitchen, my first ever), are four orchid plants.

  • As he finished speaking, water began to pour over the windowsill, and soon the nursery floor was ankle deep.

  • Chattie jumped up on the windowsill, with her usual stealthy aplomb, and rubbed herself against the girl's face.

  • Her naked thigh pressed against the windowsill and her bare stomach touched the dirty pane.

  • The mark was put by Barker's bloodstained slipper upon the windowsill to suggest how the fugitive got away.

  • If I lay a piece of butcher's meat on the windowsill, she hastens up, works her will on it and retires.