chancel

• n. 高坛
• n. (Chancel)人名；(英)钱斯尔；(法)尚塞尔

来自拉丁词cancellus, 斜栅，词源同cancel, chancery. 原指教堂用斜栅围起来的圣地。

chancel (n.)

c. 1300, "part of the church around the altar," from Old French chancel, from Late Latin cancellus "lattice," from Latin cancelli (plural) "grating, bars" (see cancel); sense extended in Late Latin from the lattice-work that separated the choir from the nave in a church to the space itself.

1. Just give me the chancel right now the news is dead.

只要给我这个机会就成!

来自互联网

2. The part of the chancel a cruciform church that is occupied by this company of singers.

教堂里唱诗班所占的席位;是圣台中位于圣坛和中央中间的那一部分.

来自互联网