Vault

(noun.) the act of jumping over an obstacle.

(noun.) an arched brick or stone ceiling or roof.

(noun.) a burial chamber (usually underground).

(noun.) a strongroom or compartment (often made of steel) for safekeeping of valuables.

(verb.) bound vigorously.

(verb.) jump across or leap over (an obstacle).

编辑:菲利普

• But how many generations of the women who had gone to her making had descended bandaged to the family vault? 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.
• The vault above became obscured, lightning flashed from the heavy masses, followed instantaneously by crashing thunder; then the big rain fell. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I say the best prison is that which is made by the sexton--no dungeon like a church-vault! 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• I am not at all obliged to it for making me Guy Fawkes in the vault and a Sneak in the area both at once,' said Eugene. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• The pale moonlight streamed through a shattered fanlight over the door; the air was unwholesome and chilly, like that of a vault. 哈丽叶特·比切·斯托. 汤姆叔叔的小屋.
• The vault had been lately opened to place our Alfred therein. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• It was like sitting in a vault strewn with dead bodies--the cap, the noose, the pinioned arms, the faces that he knew, even beneath that hideous veil. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 雾都孤儿.
• I saw her laid low in her kindred vaults, And her immortal part with angels lives. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• There's doors under the church in the Square--black doors, leading into black vaults. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Now I was led to examine the cause and progress of this decay, and forced to spend days and nights in vaults and charnel houses. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• In the ivory storage vaults of one large company, there is held from $150,000 to $300,000 worth of ivory, ranging from the tusk up to the finished product. 佚名. 神奇的知识之书.
• He entered the churches, and foretold to the congregations their speedy removal to the vaults below. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I see, said he, thou dreamest already that our men-at-arms are in thy refectory and thy ale-vaults. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The delicate little skeletons were lying in broken vaults and had their household gods and kitchen utensils with them. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I vaulted to the ground below and ran swiftly toward the advancing party. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• And of the vaulted chamber, whispered Locksley. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Some fell dead, many wounded, and the yells of the discomfited assailants vibrated under the vaulted roof of the tunnel, as they retired in disorder. 弗格斯·休姆. 奇幻岛.
• Methought I heard a noise, a step in the far chapel, which was re-echoed by its vaulted roof, and borne to me through the hollow passages. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• I vaulted over, and finding myself in a field, kept across it steadily with my back to the road. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• I was girded, walled in, vaulted over, by seven-fold barriers of loneliness. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• The king's kitchen is indeed a noble building, vaulted at top, and about six hundred feet high. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The bare vaulting of trees along the Mall was ceiled with lapis lazuli, and arched above snow that shone like splintered crystals. 伊迪丝·华顿. 纯真年代.

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