Steeple

(noun.) a tall tower that forms the superstructure of a building (usually a church or temple) and that tapers to a point at the top.

整理:史黛丝

• I eagerly traced the windings of the land, and hailed a steeple which I at length saw issuing from behind a small promontory. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• His supposition was tested on a chur ch steeple at Paris, and, later, on the Puy de D?me, a mountain in Au vergne. 李贝. 西洋科学史.
• By means of a lens one can easily get on a visiting card a picture of a distant church steeple. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• I had known many of the grown people before and almost all the children, but now the very steeple began to wear a familiar and affectionate look. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• He told Master Hans about this, and the optician fixed two lenses in a tube, and looking at the weathercock on a neighboring steeple saw that it seemed much nearer and to be upside down. 鲁伯特·萨金特·荷兰. 历史性发明.
• He appeared as tall as an ordinary spire steeple, and took about ten yards at every stride, as near as I could guess. 乔纳森·斯威夫特. 格列佛游记.
• The building is five hundred feet long by one hundred and eighty wide, and the principal steeple is in the neighborhood of four hundred feet high. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• At length we saw the numerous steeples of London, St. Paul's towering above all, and the Tower famed in English history. 玛丽·雪莱. 弗兰肯斯坦.
• And sure enough, afloat on the placid sea a league away, lay a great city, with its towers and domes and steeples drowsing in a golden mist of sunset. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• There were the piles of city roofs and chimneys, more free from smoke than on week-days; and there were the distant masts and steeples. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.

校对:鲁珀特