| 词汇 | flagstone |
| 释义 | flagstone noun[ C ] uk /ˈflæɡ.stəʊn/ us /ˈflæɡ.stoʊn/(also mainly UKflag) a large, flat piece of stone or concrete used for paths, floors, etc.（用来铺小道、地板等的）石板 Richard Newstead/Moment/GettyImages Building materials acoustic tile adobe agglomerate airbrick asphalt decking drywall fibro fixing flagged particle board paving prestressed putty razor wire two-by-four unreinforced wattle wattle and daub weatherboarding A low passage gives access to a number of small chambers constructed of flagstones. Grass sprouted between the pebbles and a greenish stain lay upon the flagstones. He did not notice her, she had come so quietly and cautiously over the flagstones. He looked down at the chalk map drawn on the flagstones. The flagstones of the floor had been torn up, and a great hollow cavern had been dug below. flagstone | American Dictionaryflagstone noun[ C ] us/ˈflæɡˌstoʊn/(alsoflag, us/flæɡ/) a flat piece of stone used esp. outside a building to make floors, stairs, and paths Examples of flagstoneflagstone Today, with cheap and frequent shipping routes, timber has replaced flagstone as the most viable resource on the island. This contrasts with the absence of marl and charcoal, as well as the non-oily texture, in the midden above the flagstones. The flagstone, even as a skin, would bring something else to our wall, physical and poetic, a sense of continuity, personal memory. Did it matter if this flagstone wall was original or rebuilt? It is now flagstone which is a limited and expensive commodity. The abundance of flagstone has recorded the 'ebb and flow and intermixture' of the islands, narrating a specifically symbolic role. Beneath the flagstone pavement, another midden was encountered. In the midden below the flagstones, 93 sherds were recovered along with 13 pieces of broken unmodified shell and one exhausted chert core. Such on-site debates took on a heightened dimension in relation to the existing flagstone wall, as we began to question our initial assumptions. The prospect of rebuilding was both enticing, as an opportunity to spend a future summer constructing flagstones, and yet deeply questionable as a strategy. The flagstone wall as built narrates ambiguities and contradictions. Early sketches proposed retaining the remaining flagstone walls, which was a decision based on trust. Although the midden was continuous above and below the flagstones, the character of the levels was quite different. Below the midden level, a flagstone pavement was exposed. He excavated inside the platform to a depth of 1.4 m and came across several large flagstones. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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