2008年11月25日 星期二
Veranda
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–noun
1. Also verandah. Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. a large, open porch, usually roofed and partly enclosed, as by a railing (欄杆,扶手), often extending across the front and sides of a house; gallery.
2. piazza.
Already in the film, we have seen the ghost of Oscar more than once, morose, pensive, worried about his children. There is a touching scene where his mother wakes from a dream [on] the veranda of her summer [cottage] and has a loving conversation with him.
(If elements of "Hamlet" creep in, with the ghost of Alexander's father and his mother's hasty remarriage, they are not insisted on, and coil casually beneath the surface of the action.)
creep
1. to move slowly with the body close to the ground, as a reptile or an insect, or a person on hands and knees.
2. to approach slowly, imperceptibly, or stealthily (often fol. by up): We crept [up] and peeked over the wall.
shack
She discovers that Carl is shacked [up] with a beautiful
barrack
All the callers-in want to do is barrack him [about] his support, started decades earlier, for Hindley's parole.
billet
Howard Vernon plays Von Ebrennae, a cultured Nazi [officer] who is billeted in this [household].
bunker
a [coal] bunker.
to bunker an army's [defenses].
cubicle mural
attic
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