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 hearth [hɑrθ]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 炉床, 灶台, 炉边

[化] 锻造炉; 敞炉; 炉缸; 炉床; 火床; 炉膛


  1. The soldiers swore to fight for the hearth and the altar.
    战士们宣誓为保卫家庭和宗教而战。
  2. An open recess for holding a fire at the base of a chimney; a hearth.
    壁炉用于在烟囱底部燃火的敞口的凹窝;炉床
  3. He hulked up from his chair by the hearth.
    他从火炉边的椅子里懒洋洋地站起来。


hearth
[ noun ]
  1. an open recess in a wall at the base of a chimney where a fire can be built

  2. <noun.artifact>
    the fireplace was so large you could walk inside it
    he laid a fire in the hearth and lit it
    the hearth was black with the charcoal of many fires
  3. home symbolized as a part of the fireplace

  4. <noun.artifact>
    driven from hearth and home
    fighting in defense of their firesides
  5. an area near a fireplace (usually paved and extending out into a room)

  6. <noun.location>
    they sat on the hearth and warmed themselves before the fire


Hearth \Hearth\ (h[aum]rth), n. [OE. harthe, herth, herthe, AS.
heor[eth]; akin to D. haard, heerd, Sw. h["a]rd, G. herd; cf.
Goth. ha['u]ri a coal, Icel. hyrr embers, and L. cremare to
burn.]
1. The pavement or floor of brick, stone, or metal in a
chimney, on which a fire is made; the floor of a
fireplace; also, a corresponding part of a stove.

There was a fire on the hearth burning before him.
--Jer. xxxvi.
22.

Where fires thou find'st unraked and hearths
unswept.
There pinch the maids as blue as bilberry. --Shak.

2. The house itself, as the abode of comfort to its inmates
and of hospitality to strangers; fireside.

Household talk and phrases of the hearth.
--Tennyson.

3. (Metal. & Manuf.) The floor of a furnace, on which the
material to be heated lies, or the lowest part of a
melting furnace, into which the melted material settles;
as, an open-hearth smelting furnace.
[1913 Webster +PJC]

{Hearth ends} (Metal.), fragments of lead ore ejected from
the furnace by the blast.

{Hearth money}, {Hearth penny} [AS. heor[eth]pening], a tax
formerly laid in England on hearths, each hearth (in all
houses paying the church and poor rates) being taxed at
two shillings; -- called also {chimney money}, etc.

He had been importuned by the common people to
relieve them from the . . . burden of the hearth
money. --Macaulay.

  1. Its home audience, seated at the electronic hearth, heard the unmistakable sound of an audience's laughter if they noticed it at all.
  2. But some of these artists tired of the small pleasures of the hearth and views through open windows.
  3. The young women are taking a fresh look at their grandmothers, mistresses of hearth and home, and reassessing their options.
  4. It has become the hearth of Americans' daily lives.
  5. A folk cook is connected to the fuel and water supply, aware how much effort it takes to keep water hot for washing, said Alice Ross, an expert in hearth cooking from Long Island.
  6. So there will be no razzmatazz: this week's press conference was a simple affair held round Richard Branson's hearth.
  7. Meals were made over a hearth of cinderblocks.
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