Rafter

(noun.) one of several parallel sloping beams that support a roof.

(verb.) provide (a ceiling) with rafters.

编辑:雷金纳德

• Tower after tower crashed down, with blazing roof and rafter; and the combatants were driven from the court-yard. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Having placed our studding in position and secured them by a plate running around the top we are ready for the rafters. 威廉K.戴维. 智者、化学家和伟大医生的秘密.
• I abode until roof and rafters crackled and crashed around me. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There is a good room under the roof of the stables--with sloping rafters. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• But I don't know how long the rafters may hold. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• The thought of the rafters stirred her. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.
• He has found a red grave among the blazing rafters of his own castle and I alone am escaped to tell you. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• The constant vapour which this occasioned, had polished the rafters and beams of the low-browed hall, by encrusting them with a black varnish of soot. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• There were rafters from the torn-down floor above, lying loose on the ground--but they were too light. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• It was a large room, with a rough splintery floor, unplastered rafters overhead, and two bedsteads on opposite sides. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• It was a dim, mouldy, melancholy old room, with a low, raftered ceiling. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.

校对:塞尔玛