fireside

英 [ˈfaɪəsaɪd]

美 [ˈfaɪərsaɪd]

n.  炉边

复数：firesides　

TEM8

BNC.19556 / COCA.22071

牛津词典

noun

• 炉边
  the part of a room beside the fire
  1. sitting by the fireside
     坐在炉边

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 炉边;炉火旁
  If you sit bythefiresidein a room, you sit near the fire.
  1. ...winter evenings by the fireside.
     在炉火旁度过的那些冬夜
  2. ...cosy fireside chats.
     围炉畅聊

英英释义

noun

• home symbolized as a part of the fireplace
  1. driven from hearth and home
  2. fighting in defense of their firesides
  Synonym:hearth
• an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)
  1. they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire
  Synonym:hearth

双语例句

• He ran to join his father at the fireside.
  他跑过去和父亲一起坐在炉边。
• In England they became fireside favourites.
  在美国，它们成了人们爱不释手的家庭读物。
• 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。
• Criticising all with hardly more reverence than the Indian would feel for the clerical band, the judicial robe, the pillory, the gallows, the fireside, or the church.
  她几乎和印第安人一样，以不屑的态度批评牧师的丝带，法官的黑袍，颈手枷，绞刑架，家庭或教会。
• Sooner than sit by the fireside, he'd prefer to take a long talk.
  他宁愿去远途散步，也不愿在炉旁闲坐没事干。
• The three Bassets were already in residence draped snoring on the fireside rug, but they seemed to be used to Debbie.
  那3只短腿猎犬已经四肢舒展地躺在壁炉边的铺垫上呼噜呼噜地睡觉了，但它们看来很习惯戴比。
• GA uses successful, local entrepreneurs to teach many of the classes, but also brings in heavy-hitters such as Sequoia Capital partner roelof botha for "fireside chats" and workshops.
  GA许多课程的老师都是本地的成功企业家，有时也会请来一些重量级的“大人物”进行“炉边谈话”或专题研讨会，比如红杉资本（SequoiaCapital）合伙人鲁洛夫•博塔。
• Later that day, during the play-hour, I found Burns alone by the fireside, reading the same book as before, and I started talking to her.
  后来在游戏的时侯，我找到了独自坐在火边的伯恩斯，她还在读那本书。我开始和她说话。
• 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。
• Fire be good for the fireside.
  火在炉内尽其用。