Wicket

(noun.) small opening (like a window in a door) through which business can be transacted.

(noun.) small gate or door (especially one that is part of a larger door).

(noun.) a small arch used as croquet equipment.

(noun.) cricket equipment consisting of a set of three stumps topped by crosspieces; used in playing cricket.

编辑:珀尔

• A small green court was the whole of its demesne in front; and a neat wicket gate admitted them into it. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Looking back as I turned into the front garden, I saw Mr. Murdstone leaning against the wicket of the churchyard, and Mr. Quinion talking to him. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Mr. Luffey retired a few paces behind the wicket of the passive Podder, and applied the ball to his right eye for several seconds. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• She skirted the bank and went round to the wicket before the house, where she stood motionless, looking at the scene. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• Both he and I had our backs towards the path leading up the field to the wicket. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The satellite removed his arm and opened the wicket, and Mr Julius Handford went out. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 我们共同的朋友.
• Again a whitish object gleamed before me: it was a gate--a wicket; it moved on its hinges as I touched it. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Caroline looked at the wicket-gate, beside which holly-oaks spired up tall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• The turnkey laughed, and gave us good day, and stood laughing at us over the spikes of the wicket when we descended the steps into the street. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• Whatever his jailers considered that he needed was conveyed to his cell by night through a wicket. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• I looked back, and saw that she had closed the door before I had opened the wicket by the side of the carriage gates. 威尔基·柯林斯. 白衣女人.
• He had already withdrawn his eye from the Peri, and was looking at a humble tuft of daisies which grew by the wicket. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• On the contrary, it seemed rather a piquant thing to us to chevy him about the playground and hit him over the shins with a wicket. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• Down came the wicket again; and Dobbin started up. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• The ghosts that vanished when the wicket closed. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 双城记.
• The umpires were stationed behind the wickets; the scorers were prepared to notch the runs; a breathless silence ensued. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• It was not far to Longmeadow, but the tent was pitched and the wickets down by the time they arrived. 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• The wickets were pitched, and so were a couple of marquees for the rest and refreshment of the contending parties. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.

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