英:[ˈgrɒtəʊ]
美:[ˈgrɑtoʊ]
英:[ˈgrɒtəʊ]
美:[ˈgrɑtoʊ]
grot·to
gra to
复数:grottoes或grottos
"picturesque cavern or cave," 1610s, 源自意大利语 grotta,早期为 cropta,是拉丁语 crypta “拱顶,洞穴”的变形,源自希腊语 krypte “隐藏的地方”(参见 crypt)。末尾的 -o 可能是因为在许多《神曲》的翻译中都是这样拼写的。
石窟
Italian grotta, grotto, from Latin crypta cavern, crypt
The first known use of grotto was in 1617
ground swellnoun
a broad deep ocean swell caused by a distant storm or earthquake
ground1 of 3noun
the bottom of a body of water
the boat struck ground
plural sediment sense 1, lees
basis, foundation
grounds for divorce
a surrounding area : background
a picture on a gray ground
the surface of the earth
an area used for a particular purpose fishing grounds
the parade ground
plural the area around and belonging to a building
soil entry 3 sense 1, earth
an area to be won or defended in or as if in battle
gaining ground on the other runners
an object that makes an electrical connection with the earth
a large conducting body (as the earth) used as a common return for an electric circuit
ground2 of 3verb
to bring to or place on the ground
to provide a reason for
to instruct in fundamentals
well grounded in mathematics
to connect electrically with a ground
to restrict to the ground
ground a pilot
to prohibit from taking part in some usual activities
grounded her for a week
to run aground
the ship grounded on a reef
to hit a ground ball
grounded to the shortstop
ground3 of 3
groundnutnoun
peanut sense 1
groundlessadjective
not justified : having no real basis
groundless fears
groundlessadjective
not justified : having no real basis
groundless fears
groundhognoun
woodchuck
groundernoun
ground ball
grouchnoun
a sudden outburst of bad temper
an irritable or complaining person
grottonoun
cave entry 1
an artificial structure made to resemble a natural cave
grottonoun
cave entry 1
an artificial structure made to resemble a natural cave
1 Ripe dessert fruits were offered up in grottoes of palm and fern.
2 They visit the grotto, the baths, the souvenir shops and various places of worship, all under the stern gaze of a middle-aged senior nun from a nursing order.
3 At the end, in what is a bit fancifully called a grotto, you discover an object that looks like melted mounds of mood candles, representing a woman’s G-spot.
4 Water trickles through an underground grotto.
水沿着地下岩洞流淌。
5 Dramatic stone outcroppings are everywhere, forming grottoes, misty waterfalls and, at one entrance, a canyon-like series of stacked stone walls that look like stowaways from a John Ford western.
6 Brian Sherman, 51, was visiting the park with his wife around 12:10 p.m. on Saturday when the pair went to take photos with Disney World characters at the grotto area of the Magic Kingdom.
7 A cantera stone statue of Our Lady of Guadalupe brought back from Mexico graces the top of the archway, nestled inside a limestone grotto.
8 The room rate was competitive, and best of all, the Fox touts an underground hot tub area designed to resemble a cavernous grotto complete with mood lighting a la Hugh Hefner’s Playboy Mansion.
9 Stroll the property’s 108 acres and get lost in romantic woodlands dotted with follies and grottos.
10 Well known grotto murals, tomb paintings, stone carvings, brick carvings and lacquer paintings were produced during that period.
这一时期的石窟壁画、墓室壁画、石刻、砖刻以及漆画等都已蔚然可观。
11 The grotto was discovered by accident in the 1830s and at times was thought to have been a smugglers’ tunnel, an elaborate hoax, a chalk pit and an ancient Roman temple.
12 She hears her snails in the grotto drag their bodies over the rocks.
13 Throw a Turkish tent, a crystal grotto, a gothic tower and the stunning Serpentine lake into the mix and you have a gorgeous day out.
14 Grotto was a quiet world, but the sounds were there, if you knew how to listen.
葛洛托是个寂静的世界, 但你仍然能听到一些自然的只言片语, 只要你知道如何去听.
15 It felt like sifting through the treasures inside Ariel’s’ underwater grotto; even the tiniest trinket was etched with perfect, arcane meaning.
16 The scene is a grotto in a wilderness.
17 Here there are no Patagonian poetry grottos, no naked swimming, fancy dress pirate parades, English National Ballet, wishing trees, or Alice in Wonderland hookah lounges.
18 Set to an easy-on-the ear score by Ezio Bosso and Vivaldi, the ballet is brilliantly vivid and varied in its deployment of seven couples, and particularly lovely in its setting of a radiantly hued grotto.
19 The palais is a manic fusion of biblical characters, animal gatherings, Egyptian tombs, stucco arches, grottos, fairies, fountains, popular sayings and classical columns.
20 And yet seen in the bucolic setting of Kensington Gardens, it also invites association with the use of ruins and grottoes in the 18th Century English landscape garden.