Billy advanced and drew away the drapery which screened the alcove of the bow window.
比利上前拉开遮住弓形窗壁龛的窗帘。
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Shortly afterwards the outer door closed, her bonnet passed the bow window, and we knew that we were alone in the lower floor of the house.
不久后外门关上, 她的帽子越过弓形窗, 我们知道我们独自一人在房子的下层。
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The next morning when I awoke and looked out of the bow window of the big old-fashioned bedroom, I saw under a gray sky a country that was still all mystery.
This strange, languid creature spent his waking hours in the bow window of a St. James's Street club and was the receiving-station as well as the transmitter for all the gossip of the metropolis.
He ventured to differ, however, about the Corinthian columns which were to cling like leeches to the frames of the bow windows, saying that, for his part, he liked to relieve the facade by a bit of decoration.
A bow window or compass window is a curved bay window. Bow windows are designed to create space by projecting beyond the exterior wall of a building, and to provide a wider view of the garden or street outside and typically combine four or more casement windows, which join together to form an arch.
近义、反义、联想词
近义词
n.
window
英英词典
bow window n.
a window that sticks out from the outside wall of a house