Battlement

(noun.) a rampart built around the top of a castle with regular gaps for firing arrows or guns.

校对:索尼亚

• I expect little aid from their hand, said Front-de-Boeuf, unless we were to hurl them from the battlements on the heads of the villains. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• As the King was walking upon the battlements one day, a woman cried out, saying, Help, my lord, O King! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• To the battlements then, said De Bracy; when didst thou ever see me the graver for the thoughts of battle? 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Lifting his eye to its battlements, he cast over them a glare such as I never saw before or since. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We sauntered carelessly and unthinkingly to the edge of the lofty battlements of the citadel, and looked down--a vision! 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• He ordered every horse and mule in Persia to be shorn, and pulled down the battlements of the neighbouring cities. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• As he came down the great staircase at last, after Mrs. Rochester had flung herself from the battlements, there was a great crash--all fell. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• Gnarled and twisted trees spring from the old walls every where, and beautify and overshadow the gray battlements with a wild luxuriance of foliage. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• The Castle battlements arose upon my view at eight o'clock. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 远大前程.
• You live just below--do you mean at that house with the battlements? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.

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