fireside meaning in English
n. 炉边;家;家庭;〔古语〕家属。
2.adj. 炉边的,亲切的,毫无拘束的 (the president's fireside chat (美国)总统的炉边谈话)。
Examples
- Let's have tea by the fireside .
让我们在炉边吃茶点吧。 - 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。 - 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。 - This fireside is so neatly swept, his parlor clean and his books so well dusted .
壁灯打扫得那么干净,小客厅收拾得那么整洁,书架上又是那么一尘不染。 - 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。