fireside

英 [ˈfaɪəsaɪd]

美 [ˈfaɪərsaɪd]

n.  炉边

复数：firesides　

TEM8

BNC.19556 / COCA.22071

牛津词典

noun

• 炉边
  the part of a room beside the fire
  1. sitting by the fireside
     坐在炉边

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 炉边;炉火旁
  If you sit bythefiresidein a room, you sit near the fire.
  1. ...winter evenings by the fireside.
     在炉火旁度过的那些冬夜
  2. ...cosy fireside chats.
     围炉畅聊

英英释义

noun

• home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
  1. driven from hearth and home
  2. fighting in defense of their firesides
  Synonym:hearth
• an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
  1. they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire
  Synonym:hearth

双语例句

• There's nothing I like more than curling up by the fireside with a good book.
  没有什么比拿本好书团坐在火炉边更令我快乐的了。
• It must have been two years afterwards, and I was almost fourteen, when one dreadful night my godmother and I sat at the fireside.
  大约过了两年，我快满十四岁了，在一个可怕的夜晚，我和教母坐在壁炉旁边。
• Criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
  她几乎和印第安人一样，以不屑的态度批评牧师的丝带，法官的黑袍，颈手枷，绞刑架，家庭或教会。
• What would she think if she found him sitting there with the air of intimacy implied by waiting alone in the dusk at a lady's fireside?
  他想，他的未婚妻有可能来这儿看望她的表姐，倘若她发现他坐在这儿，只身在一位夫人炉边的昏暗中等待着，对这种亲密的样子她会怎样想呢？
• At the city gate and by your fireside I have seen you prostrate yourself and worship your own freedom
  在城门边，在炉火旁，我曾看到你们五体投地，膜拜自己的自由
• Meantime the Rat, warm and comfortable, dozed by his fireside.
  与此同时，感到温暖适意的老鼠，正坐在火炉边打盹。
• In England they became fireside favourites.
  在美国，它们成了人们爱不释手的家庭读物。
• He sat by the fireside drinking his cocoa.
  他坐在炉边喝著他的可可亚。
• You can knit a sweater by the fireside. Sunday mornings, go for a ride.
  你可以在温暖的火炉旁织毛衣，或在星期天早上，骑车出游。
• GA uses successful, local entrepreneurs to teach many of the classes, but also brings in heavy-hitters such as Sequoia Capital partner roelof botha for "fireside chats" and workshops.
  GA许多课程的老师都是本地的成功企业家，有时也会请来一些重量级的“大人物”进行“炉边谈话”或专题研讨会，比如红杉资本（SequoiaCapital）合伙人鲁洛夫•博塔。