| 释义 |
‖ isba|izˈba|
Also isbah, izba.
[ad. Russ. izbá (related to stove n.1).]
A Russian hut or log-house.
1784J. King in Cook Voy. Pacific Ocean III. 374 These houses consist of three distinct sorts, jourts, balagans, and loghouses, called here isbas. 1833R. Pinkerton Russia 24 These simple articles compose the whole..furniture of a Russian izba. 1883Harper's Mag. Jan. 251/1 Her serfs, if they wanted new isbahs—alias log huts—..would get the priests..to versify their petition. 1892Daily News 22 Jan. 6/7 The meanest Kirghis yourt was more artistically decorated than his grimy, unventilated isba. 1943E. M. Almedingen Frossia ii. 89, I was twenty-one, married, had my own izba, owned my own livestock. 1962Observer 20 May 21/1 We lived in a tiny isba, or log cabin, together with three other families. |