Vault
[ vɔlt ]
第3级
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n. 拱顶，穹窿;地下室;撑物跳;墓穴;
vt. 进行撑竿跳;做成圆拱形;成穹状;（以手撑物或撑竿）跳过;
vi. 跳跃;成穹状弯曲;
📝 例句
The dark vault surrounded the terrestrial globe as if to crush it.
阴森森的天空罩在地球上，好象要把它压扁似的。
This underground vault is theftproof.
这所地下保管库是防盗的。
It was a vault, a steel chapel where loafting and laughter were raw sin.
这里象是一个钢板小教堂，放荡和闹笑都是大逆不道的罪孽。
The second unforgettable moment came five hours later at the pole vault pit.
第二次令人难忘的时刻发生在五个小时之后的撑杆跳场地上。
She put her jewels in a vault at the bank.
她将珠宝放在银行的金库里。
🌱 联想助记
【记】※ vault-拱顶,fault-缺点:拱顶有缺点,会塌下来砸死人
※ vault-金库拱顶,vaunt-炫耀:因为家里有金库,所以值得炫耀
✅ 同义词
🔤 词根
-volv-表示“卷”
常见变体有-volut-
📖 牛津释义
vault
n
1 arched roof; series of arches forming a roof 拱券; 拱顶
fan vaulting, ie vaults wherethe arches have ribs, like a fan 扇形拱券. =>illus at App 1见附录1插图, page viii.
2
(a) cellar or underground room used for storing things at a cool temperature 地窖; 地下室
`wine-vaults 酒窖.
(b) similar room beneath a church or in a cemetery, used for burials （教堂或坟场的）地下墓室
in the family vault 在家族的地下墓室中.
3 similar room, esp in a bank and protected by locks, alarms, thick walls, etc, used for keeping valuables safe （设於地下的）金库, 保险库（尤指银行的）.
4 covering like an arched roof 拱券状覆盖物
(rhet 修辞) the vault of heaven, ie the sky 苍穹（天空）.
vault v [I, Ipr]
~ (over sth) jump in asingle movement over or onto an object with the hand(s) resting on it or with the help of a pole （用手或竿支撑）跳跃
vault (over) a fence 用手支撑跳过篱笆墙
The jockey vaulted lightly into the saddle. 那骑师用手一按马背轻身跃上了马鞍.
(fig fml 比喻, 文) vaulting (ie boundless, overreaching) ambition 奢想. vault, n jump made in this way 撑物跳跃; 撑竿跳.
🔁 扩展释义
*[vɒ:lt]n. 拱顶, 窖, 地下室, 撑竿跳, 穹窿vt. 做成圆拱形, 撑竿跳过vi. 成穹状弯曲, 跳跃【医】 穹隆【经】 (银行等的)保管库
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The killing of the bison changed the whole wildlife of the plains. With fewer bison, grass shoots were not eaten, so grass did not grow as strongly.
屠宰野牛改变了平原的全部野生生物。野牛少了，嫩草没有牛来吃了，草就长得不粗壮。
Fred Pearson was walking through the university town of Oxford one morning in 1961.
1961年的某个早上，弗雷德·皮尔逊正步行通过牛津大学城。
New Zealand wine is of high quality and is sold all over the world.
新西兰的葡萄酒质量很高，销往世界各地。