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es·cri·toire
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"写字方便的家具", 1706年,源自法语 écritoire(古法语 escritoire,12世纪,意为“书桌,小隔间”),源自晚期拉丁语 scriptorium “写作之处”(参见 scriptorium)。
obsolete French, writing desk, scriptorium, from Medieval Latin scriptorium
The first known use of escritoire was in 1664
1 They will hide their papers from him, and lock up their escritoires.
2 Well, there was no danger now, she was thinking with a sad sinking of heart, as she looked wistfully at a cluster of long-dried heart's-ease in her escritoire.
3 It’s such a good system that I ended up producing escritoires with a friend who has a furniture factory called SwitzerCultCreative.
4 He went to his escritoire and pressed a secret spring, and a drawer flew out, and he laid something on the table.
5 Lucinda put out an arm deliciously rounded beneath skin of a texture fairer and finer than any other Bellamy had ever seen, and took a morocco-bound engagement book from her escritoire.
6 There is a walnut table, escritoire, and chest of drawers.
7 The dog was asleep on the velvet rug before the hearth, and his mistress sat at her escritoire, with her arms resting on the blue desk, and her face hidden upon them.
8 He noticed a fat Chinese vase set up like an idol in an old escritoire.
9 There was a Pompadour escritoire, some chairs of the Regency, several pictures in pastel; and painted on the ceiling were cherubs floating in an atmosphere which had once been blue.
10 If you look in the left-hand drawer of my dressing-table, you will find the key of the escritoire, properly labelled.
11 Craig's next move was to ransack the little escritoire in the corner of the studio room itself.
12 Next was proved the subsequent finding of a packet of arsenic by the Coroner, in a locked escritoire of the prisoner's, and of which the prisoner kept the keys about his person.
13 Sitting before me in a London hotel room, the 48-year-old looks so comfortable that you would think he had been installed here by the interior designers along with the coffee table and the escritoire.
14 I went and said as I entered: 'Dear friend, you will doubtless be kind enough to give me back the documents which you took from my escritoire to vex me.'
15 Gramont thought a moment, then went to his buhl escritoire and opened it.
16 Taking a lamp from the escritoire in the back parlor, he went from room to room, finding nowhere the object he sought, and at length became alarmed.
17 Harry came down to breakfast to find the table set in the parlour as usual, but instead of sitting at the escritoire finishing up his morning letter, Malfoy was nowhere to be found.
Harry下楼来吃早餐,餐桌仍和以往一样设在会客室里,但是他并没有看到清晨时一向在写字台前写信的Malfoy,反倒是哪儿都找不到他人。
18 Ernestine has profited by some moment of your absence when you might have left your escritoire open, or some other forgetfulness, to take the papers away.'
19 Niki went to the escritoire and picked up the little square of blue envelope lying thereon and handed it to Van Buren.
20 He turned to his escritoire, and took a small Russia case from the drawer; then to the mantel, and carefully shook the dampness from the two flowers he had placed there that morning.