fireside

英 [ˈfaɪəsaɪd]

美 [ˈfaɪərsaɪd]

n.  炉边

复数：firesides　

TEM8

BNC.19556 / COCA.22071

牛津词典

noun

• 炉边
  the part of a room beside the fire
  1. sitting by the fireside
     坐在炉边

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 炉边;炉火旁
  If you sit bythefiresidein a room, you sit near the fire.
  1. ...winter evenings by the fireside.
     在炉火旁度过的那些冬夜
  2. ...cosy fireside chats.
     围炉畅聊

英英释义

noun

• home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
  1. driven from hearth and home
  2. fighting in defense of their firesides
  Synonym:hearth
• an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
  1. they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire
  Synonym:hearth

双语例句

• You can knit a sweater by the fireside. Sunday mornings, go for a ride.
  你可以在温暖的火炉旁织毛衣，或在星期天早上，骑车出游。
• The old world of fireside chats among G-7 leaders is gone.
  发展中国家的收入增加及经济增长意味着其影响力的加强。七国集团炉边谈话式的旧有世界格局已经不复存在。
• Sooner than sit by the fireside, he'd prefer to take a long talk.
  他宁愿去远途散步，也不愿在炉旁闲坐没事干。
• What would she think if she found him sitting there with the air of intimacy implied by waiting alone in the dusk at a lady's fireside?
  他想，他的未婚妻有可能来这儿看望她的表姐，倘若她发现他坐在这儿，只身在一位夫人炉边的昏暗中等待着，对这种亲密的样子她会怎样想呢？
• Or they often sat together by the fireside in the millhouse.
  或者时常一起坐在磨坊的火炉旁。
• Fire be good for the fireside.
  火在炉内尽其用。
• Criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
  她几乎和印第安人一样，以不屑的态度批评牧师的丝带，法官的黑袍，颈手枷，绞刑架，家庭或教会。
• We meet at the post-office, and at the sociable, and about the fireside every night;
  我们相会于邮局，于社交场所，每晚在炉火边；
• We will have a home and fireside of our own; and thou shalt sit upon his knee; and he will teach thee many things, and love thee dearly.
  我们会有我们的一个家和壁炉；你呢，将要坐在他的膝头；而他会教给你许多事情，会亲亲热热地爱你。
• I nodded at the old gentleman as Wemmick himself might have nodded, and we went in and sat down by the fireside.
  我就学温米克点头的样子对老先生连连点头。我们走到屋里，坐在火炉旁边。