nooks

英 [nʊks]

美 [nʊks]

n.  僻静处; 幽静的角落
nook的复数

柯林斯词典

• N-COUNT 隐蔽处;偏僻处
  Anookis a small and sheltered place.
  1. We found a seat in a little nook, and had some lunch.
     我们在一个小角落找了个位子，吃了点午饭。

双语例句

• Nearly 40% of libraries let patrons borrow kindles, nooks, or other similar devices, the survey found.
  这项调查发现，近40%的图书馆让顾客借用Kindles、Nook或其他类似设备。
• Spirits whispered in the rustling leaves, ghosts lurked in the murky nooks, the deep baying of a hound floated up out of the distance, an owl answered with his sepulchral note.
  沙沙作响的树叶像是鬼怪们在窃窃私语，暗影里不知有多少魂灵埋伏着，远处不时传来沉沉的狗吠，一只猫头鹰阴森地厉叫着。
• In this old provincial quarter, in the wildest nooks, the pavement shows itself, the sidewalks begin to crawl and to grow longer, even where there are as yet no pedestrians.
  新生命的征兆是明显的，在这村气十足的旧城区里，在这些最荒野的角落里，石块路面出现了，即使是在还没有人走的地方，人行道也开始蜿蜒伸展了。
• Now and then they came upon snug nooks carpeted with grass and jeweled with flowers.
  他们时不时地遇到一些幽僻的地方，地面长满青草，绽放着鲜花，宛如块块镶着宝石的绿色地毯。
• Those little peas will settle into the nooks and crannies around your eyes, getting the cold right to the source.
  这些小小的豌豆可以填满眼睛周围的每个角落，效果直达肿胀的根源。
• I searched every nooks and crannies but didn't find my pen.
  我找遍了每个角落都没找到我的笔。
• If that doesn't work, crews also can shoot golf balls and knotted rope into the nooks and crannies of the device to plug it, Wells said.
  如果这一方法无效，船员们还将向设备的各个弯角和缝隙发射高尔夫球和结绳以阻塞它，Wells说。
• They say that clay layer apparently lubricates the plates-like greasing ball bearings-and that it's deposited there by mineral-rich water, sucked into the fault's nooks and crannies.
  地质学家们表示，显然，粘土层在两个板块之间起着润滑作用就像润滑滚珠轴承那样，而且，粘土层能存积在两板块间是因为断层的角落与缝隙吸入了富含矿物质的水分。
• This morning I was having breakfast with my good friend Diane at one of my favorite breakfast nooks.
  今天早上，我与我的好朋友黛安在我最喜爱的一家便餐点吃早餐。
• Half a dozen doors leading out into the hallways, to the conservatory, and quiet nooks of the mansion offered innumerable possibilities of access.
  六扇门分别通往大厅和暖室，大楼僻静的角落里隐藏着任何作案的可能。