英语释义

• a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top

片语

screw螺旋；螺丝钉；吝啬鬼

minaret尖塔

Lower Spire镇守冰冠城塞下层区

Chicago Spire芝加哥螺旋塔

Crystal Spire水晶塔

Golden SpireEngland, Lancashire, 1850

Stardust Spire星尘尖塔

octagonal spire八角尖塔

Spire Hostel斯皮尔旅馆

Freedom Spire自由尖塔

Black Spire黑尖顶

英汉例句

• a black iron cock sits on the spire of the town church.

  一只黑色的铁公鸡坐在村里教堂的塔尖上.

• on the return leg of car trips, st. augustine’s spire appearing on the horizon told me we were almost home.

  在开车回家的路上，每当圣奥古斯汀大教堂的塔尖出现在视野里，我就知道快到家了。

• at the end of the last century, marvelous spire was added, which makes it soar up slenderly into the german skies.

  上世纪末期，它又被加上了完美的塔尖，俏丽地矗立在德国的天空。

• there, residents can choose to live in victorian terraced houses, drink in pubs and marry in a church whose spire rises over cobblestone lanes.

  在那里，居民可以住在有维多利亚式平台的房子里，在酒馆里喝酒，还可以在铺有鹅卵石小道的尖顶教堂里结婚。

• no one would dream of straightening out the knobbly spire at empingham church.

  谁都无法将埃姆平汉教堂疙瘩嶙峋的尖顶弄直。

• a brick church without a spire was built last year, and the first shops in the town’s history have opened in tin shacks.

  去年，他们用砖头建造了一座没有尖顶的教堂。 该市历史上第一个商店在锡制的棚屋里开张。

• looking east from west broadway, i see a faded advertisement for handkerchiefs on a wall rising above a single-story wooden house with a bulky warehouse and the spire of the woolworth building beyond.

  在西百老汇大街往东看，我首先看到一个单层木屋耸起的墻上有褪色的纸巾广告，然后是一个大仓库，然后是伍尔沃斯大厦的尖顶。

• its spire is formed from the entwined tails of three dragons.

  它的塔尖乃是三只互相缠绕的龙尾巴.

• in the distance, the golden spire of the leifeng pagoda, a stunning 10th-century landmark rebuilt only eight years ago, emerges out of the greenery.

  在远处，雷锋塔的尖顶显现在绿色的丛林之上。 这座壮观的地标建筑始建于10世纪，刚刚在八年前改建完毕。

• his daily commute to work involved him taking five lifts to the 160th floor, climbing through a further seven tiers on vertical ladders, then squeezing into the 6ft wide spire and out of a hatch.

  35岁的mick接受了这个任务，于是，他每天就往返于塔尖和住处。 （如上图）上到塔尖，需要先分别搭乘5部电梯到达160层，然后再爬7层的垂直的梯子，再然后从仅仅6英尺宽的塔尖里爬到外面。

• the church spire is visible from miles away, and the parish operates an adjoining school.

  教堂塔尖几英里之外就可见到，它有一个附属学校。

• critics quipped that iit’s only church spire was the chimney of its power plant.

  评论家们打趣说，就连教堂的塔尖看上去也和发电站的烟囱一样。

• when they came to build the southern spire the foundations began to sink.

  他们建南边的塔尖时，地基就开始下沉了。

• witnesses told of watching the spire of the iconic christchurch cathedral come crashing down during an aftershock.

  有人亲眼看见克日斯特彻奇教堂的人像尖顶在一次余震中倒塌。

• we looked at the tower the spire of which was golden.

  我们望着塔尖是金黄色的那座塔.

• the glittering spire atop the tower of the daytime through my window, would no longer be visible now in the early morning haze.

  白天透过窗子能够看到北京展览馆那金光闪闪的高塔的尖顶，此时当然看不到了。

• the urologist at edinburgh「s private spire hospital would not do it either.

  而爱丁堡私立spire医院的泌尿科医生也拒绝做此项手术。

• the curious yet majestic-looking spire ahead tops the oldest stock exchange in europe.

  前方有欧洲最古老的证券交易中心，上面的塔尖奇特而又宏伟。

• the church spire is reckoned remarkably handsome.

  人们都说教堂的那个尖顶很漂亮.

• with the city’s infrastructure weakened then, and during the run of aftershocks since, many of its newer buildings toppled this time—as did the spire of christchurch’s iconic anglican cathedral.

  那次地震城中基础设施业已受损，又历经其后连续余震，在本次地震中许多新建筑也倒塌了——包括了该市标志性建筑圣公会教堂的塔顶。

• a small turret or spire on a roof or buttress.

  有以百叶窗遮蔽的钟塔和尖顶的教堂;装了绿色百叶窗的小别墅.

• the city still exhibits many remnants of its historic prosperity, but the most striking has to be its cathedral, whose 528ft high spire is said to be the world」s tallest.

  历史上的繁荣给这座城市留下许多胜迹，其中最令人惊奇的要算大教堂了，它高达528英尺的尖顶据说是世界上最高的。

• one office building housing 200 workers had collapsed, while christchurch cathedral「s spire tumbled.

  不光基督大教堂的塔楼倒塌了，一座有200名员工的办公楼也坍塌了。

• the church spire was struck by lightning.

  教堂的尖顶遭到了雷击.

• the spire of the tower dominates the foreground.

  塔尖在前景中占了主要地位.

• many of its newer buildings toppled this time, along with the spire of the anglican cathedral, crushing visitors.

  然而此次却有不少新建筑倒塌，单单圣公会教堂的塔尖就压死了不少游客。

• the spire on st paul」s cathedral, has been given a fruity new look, after the spire was created from roundels of carrot, yellow and green courgette and baby leeks.

  圣保罗大教堂的尖顶也换上了「水果装」，使用的材料包括胡萝卜的圆盘、黄色和绿色小胡瓜以及嫩韭菜。