curtain

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈkɜːtn̩/    美 /ˈkɜɹt(ə)n/|[ˈkʰɜɹʔn̩]

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A piece of cloth covering a window, bed, etc. to offer privacy and keep out light.
    — He drew the curtains at 11:00pm before falling asleep.
  2. A similar piece of cloth that separates the audience and the stage in a theater.
    — “H'm !” he said, “so, so—it is a tragedy in a prologue and three acts. I am going down this afternoon to see the curtain fall for the third time on what[…]will prove a good burlesque ; but it all began dramatically enough. It was last Saturday[…]that two boys, playing in the little spinney just outside Wembley Park Station, came across three large parcels done up in American cloth.[…]”
  3. The beginning of a show; the moment the curtain rises. broadly
    — He took so long to shave his head that we arrived 45 minutes after curtain and were denied late entry.
  4. The flat area of wall which connects two bastions or towers; the main area of a fortified wall.
    — Captain Rense, beleagring the Citie of Errona for us, […] caused a forcible mine to be wrought under a great curtine of the walles […].
  5. Death, final curtain. euphemistic,in-plural,sometimes
    — For life is quite absurd / And death's the final word / You must always face the curtain with a bow.
  6. That part of a wall of a building which is between two pavilions, towers, etc.
  7. A flag; an ensign. derogatory,obsolete
    — Their ragged curtains poorly are let loose
  8. The uninterrupted stream of fluid that falls onto a moving substrate in the process of curtain coating.
动词 v.
  1. To cover (a window) with a curtain; to hang curtains. transitive
    — In a large bedroom upstairs, the window of which was thickly curtained with a great woollen shawl lately discarded by the landlady, Mrs. Rolliver, were gathered on this evening nearly a dozen persons, all seeking vinous bliss; all old inhabitants of the nearer end of Marlott, and frequenters of this retreat.
  2. To hide, cover or separate as if by a curtain. figuratively,transitive
    — And, after conflict such as was supposed / The wandering prince and Dido once enjoy'd, / When with a happy storm they were surprised / And curtain'd with a counsel-keeping cave, / We may, each wreathed in the other's arms, / Our pastimes done, possess a golden slumber;
    Horace Gregory

词形变化

curtains plural curtains present,singular,third-person curtaining participle,present curtained participle,past curtained past

词汇关系

近义词
becurtain
衍生词
act curtain air curtain bamboo curtain bedcurtain beef curtains behind the curtain blackout curtain bring down the curtain bring the curtain down cafe curtains chin curtain curtain array curtain bangs curtain call curtain coating curtainfic curtain lecture curtainless curtainlike curtain off curtain-raise curtain raiser curtain-raiser curtain ring curtain rod curtain-sider curtainsider curtain time curtain twitcher curtain-twitcher curtainwall curtain wall curtainwise draw the curtains drop curtain encurtain final curtain fortification curtain front curtain front-of-house curtain green curtain house curtain incurtain iron curtain lace-curtain lace curtain main curtain meat curtains net curtain olio curtain precurtain proscenium curtain pull back the curtain pull down the curtain recurtain ring down the curtain ring up the curtain roast beef curtains safety curtain shower curtain silicon curtain tableau curtain the curtain falls the curtains match the drapes uncurtain Zion curtain
相关词
blind drape

词源

词源 1
Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.
词源 2
Inherited from Middle English curtine, from Old French cortine, from Late Latin cōrtīna (“curtain”), a calque from Ancient Greek.
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