| 单词 | curtain |
| 释义 | curtain —curtainless, adj. /kerr"tn/, n. 1. a hanging piece of fabric used to shut out the light from a window, adorn a room, increase privacy, etc. 2. a movable or folding screen used for similar purposes. 3. Chiefly New Eng. a window shade. 4. Theat. a. a set of hanging drapery for concealing all or part of the stage or set from the view of the audience. b. the act or time of raising or opening a curtain at the start of a performance: an 8:30 curtain. c. the end of a scene or act indicated by the closing or falling of a curtain: first-act curtain. d. an effect, line, or plot solution at the conclusion of a performance: a strong curtain; weak curtain. e. music signaling the end of a radio or television performance. f. (used as a direction in a script of a play to indicate that a scene or act is concluded.) 5. anything that shuts off, covers, or conceals: a curtain of artillery fire. 6. Archit. a relatively flat or featureless extent of wall between two pavilions or the like. 7. Fort. the part of a wall or rampart connecting two bastions, towers, or the like. 8. curtains, Slang. the end; death, esp. by violence: It looked like curtains for another mobster. 9. draw the curtain on or over, a. to bring to a close: to draw the curtain on a long career of public service. b. to keep secret. 10. lift the curtain on, a. to commence; start. b. to make known or public; disclose: to lift the curtain on a new scientific discovery. v.t. 11. to provide, shut off, conceal, or adorn with, or as if with, a curtain. [1250-1300; ME co(u)rtine < AF, OF < LL cortina, prob. equiv. to co(ho)rt- (s. of cohors; see COURT) + -ina -INE1, as calque of Gk aulaía curtain, deriv. of aulé courtyard] Syn. 1. drapery, portiere, lambrequin, valance. 1, 3. CURTAIN, BLIND, SHADE, SHUTTER agree in being covers for a window, to shut out light or keep persons from looking in. CURTAIN, BLIND, and SHADE may mean a cover, usually of cloth, which can be rolled up and down inside the window. CURTAIN, however, may also refer to a drapery at a window; and a Venetian BLIND consists of slats mounted on tapes for drawing up or down and varying the pitch of the slats. BLIND and SHUTTER may mean a cover made of two wooden frames with movable slats, attached by hinges outside a window and pulled together or opened at will. SHUTTERS may mean also a set of panels (wooden or iron) put up outside small shops or stores at closing time. Regional Variation. 3. See window shade. |
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