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

• Sooner than sit by the fireside, he'd prefer to take a long talk.
  他宁愿去远途散步，也不愿在炉旁闲坐没事干。
• Far away from home, the overseas student dreamt of returning to his own fireside.
  这位远离家乡的海外学生渴望着回家。
• 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。
• Reading a good book is like having a fireside chat with a close friend.
  在静静的空间里读一本好书，如同冬日里围坐一盆炭火和挚友谈心。
• He died quietly in his chair one October evening, seated by the fireside.
  在十月的一个晚上，他坐在炉边椅上宁静地死去了。
• 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。
• Fire be good for the fireside.
  火在炉内尽其用。
• In the beginning of composition analysis of fuel and fouling substance, formation and chemical removing mechanism of fireside fouling of condensed-oil-burning boiler were studied by means of burning chemistry and molten-salt chemistry.
  针对稠油热注炉的燃油和工况，根据燃烧化学和熔盐化学原理，分析了稠油锅炉烟垢的形成机理和清烟垢剂的化学作用。
• 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？
• 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。