| 释义 |
roofed, ppl. a.|ruːft|
[f. roof v. + -ed1.]
1. Having a roof; covered with or as with a roof. Also with in, over.
a1500Chester Plays iii. 34 Three roofed chambers. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 116 Beinge roofed and paued with maruelous arte. 1605Shakes. Macb. iii. iv. 40 Here had we now our Countries Honor, roof'd, Were the grac'd person of our Banquo present. 1673Ray Journ. Low C. 39 The first publick Building that we saw so rooft since we left England. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) II. 466 Three detached parts of it, which are roofed, but very ruinous. 1792Wordsw. Descrip. Sketches 184 She seeks a covert from the battering shower In the roofed bridge. 1832G. Downes Lett. Cont. Countries I. 274 The Gallery of Kaltwasser, which is roofed like a house. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola xxxiii, A truncated tower roofed in with fluted tiles. 1896W. Black Briseis xxiv, In the roofed-over portion of the Erectheum. 1909C. F. G. Masterman Condition of England viii. 254 The roofed-in labyrinthine airless ant-heaps of Mr. Wells's nightmare. 1923D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 27 All your ponderous roofed-in erection of right and wrong. 1931[see breeze-way, breezeway]. 1934L. B. Lyon White Hare 11 The roofed glade's a sieve That lets drip through sweet water. 1946F. Sargeson That Summer 107 We all went under a little roofed-in part. 1976‘G. Black’ Moon for Killers vi. 83 A roofed-over area that looked almost big enough to be a bus depot.
2. As the second element in combs. denoting a particular form or kind of roof.
1600Hakluyt Voy. III. 391 Their houses are flat-rooffed. 1671Milton P.R. ii. 293 He..entr'd soon the shade High rooft. 1703Neve City & C. Purchaser 271 All kind of flat Roof'd Buildings. 1804Europ. Mag. XLV. 60/2 The thatch-roof'd village, and the busy town. 1857Dufferin Lett. High Lat. (ed. 3) 139 To lie shivering inside a grass-roofed church. 1871Morris in Mackail Life (1899) I. 245 Thorshaven, with its green-roofed little houses. |