thatching

英 [ˈθætʃɪŋ]

美 [ˈθætʃɪŋ]

n.  (茅草、稻草、芦苇等)盖屋顶草料; 盖草屋顶(的技术)

现在分词：thatching　

柯林斯词典

• (茅草、稻草、芦苇等)盖屋顶草料
  Thatchingis straw or reeds used to make a roof.
• 盖草屋顶(的技术)
  Thatchingis the skill or activity of making roofs from straw or reeds.

双语例句

• Chilean evergreen whose leafy boughs are used for thatching.
  智利的一种常绿乔木，枝条有叶，用做盖屋顶的材料。
• Listen as a guide describes the ancient art of thatching a roof.
  听一段描述古代茅屋艺术的介绍。
• The craft of thatching as it is practiced toady has changed very little since the Middle Ages.
  像现在我们所使用的茅草屋顶工艺从中世纪以来几乎就没有什么变化。
• He says hand tools like tilling forks, shovels and thatching rakes require more work than a rotary tiller, but they work well and cost less.
  他认为像耕作叉、铲子和茅草耙子一样的手动工具比耕作机需求更多的工作量，但工作的更好，花费的更少。
• He went on thatching in a kind of dream. She had spoken more warmly to him tonight than she had ever done when she was unmarried and free to speak as warmly as she liked.
  盖伯瑞尔像在梦幻中一样继续盖稻草。比起她未婚时和自由自在地热情交谈时，今晚她的态度可热情多了。
• The moon disappeared, and there was a slow, light wind, like the breath of a dying man, as Gabriel climbed the ladder and started thatching high up on top of the third rick.
  月亮消失了，轻风缓缓刮起，仿佛垂死的人的呼吸。这时，盖伯瑞尔爬上梯子，开始在第三垛上盖稻草。
• Thatching is certainly uncommon in the United States today.
  造茅屋在今天的美国来说当然是不多见的。
• Over800full-time Thatchers are employed in England and Wales today, maintaining and renewing the old roofs as well as thatching newer houses.
  现在英格兰、尔士有800多名专职盖茅草屋顶的工人，他们不但维修和更换老屋顶，还盖新屋顶。
• Without these reasons to start thatching roofs again, would it be wonderful to see the disappearing craft return to popularity?
  除了这些原因重新开始建这种屋顶，难道看到这种已经消失的建筑重新流行不是一件非常好的事吗？
• Well, in the nutshell, thatching involving covering the beams or rafters, the wooden skeleton of the roof with reeds or straw.
  概述来说，茅草顶包括了覆盖的横梁和椽，房顶上的木头骨架，有茅草或者麦秆。