地窟 meaning in English
catacombs
Examples
- But beneath the ground - floor , stretching out into the island , was a large subterranean cavern , to which my mother , myself , and the women were conducted
但在地面的下边，还有一个又深又大的地窟，我的母亲我还有女仆们都被领到那儿。 - Smaller herbivores tend to live in caves , by the swamps or up in the tree crowns to hide away from their predators , while larger ones survive on the open fields , along the ridges and in the forest
草食动物躯体较小的，都爱躲在地窟沼泽或者爬到树梢上面生活；躯体较大者如羚羊、鹿等，则多在广阔的原野、山岗、森林以及沼泽中求生。 - You see we knew right where to put our hands on them , by your description ; so we crept along on tiptoe till we got within fifteen feet of them - dark as a cellar that sumach path was - and just then i found i was going to sneeze . it was the meanest kind of luck
你瞧，我们照你说的，知道该在什么地方对他们下手，所以我们踮着脚走到离他们只有十五英尺的地方可那绿树丛黑的像个地窟而这时我觉得要打喷嚏，真是倒霉透了！ - When i was got through the strait , i found the roof rose higher up , i believe near twenty foot ; but never was such a glorious sight seen in the island , i dare say , as it was , to look round the sides and roof of this vault , or cave ; the walls reflected 100 thousand lights to me from my two candles ; what it was in rock , whether diamonds , or any other precious stones , or gold , which i rather suppos d it to be , i knew not
钻过这段通道后，洞顶豁然开朗，洞高差不多有数十英尺。我环顾周围上下，只见这地下室或地窟的四壁和顶上，在我两支蜡烛烛光的照耀下，反射出万道霞光，灿烂耀目这情景是我上岛以来第一次看到的。至于那岩石中是钻石，是宝石，还是金子，我当然不清楚，但我想很可能是这类珍宝。 - What pains we accordingly take , not only with our food , and clothing , and shelter , but with our beds , which are our night - clothes , robbing the nests and breasts of birds to prepare this shelter within a shelter , as the mole has its bed of grass and leaves at the end of its burrow
我们是何等地辛苦，不但为了食物、衣着、住所，还为了我们的床铺? ?那些夜晚的衣服而辛苦着，从飞鸟巢里和飞鸟的胸脯上，我们掠夺羽毛，做成住所中的住所，就像鼹鼠住在地窟尽头草叶的床中一样！