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词汇 tent
释义 tent
noun[ C ]
uk /tent/ us /tent/
B1
a shelter made of canvas or a similar material and supported by poles and ropes, that you can fold up and carry with you帐篷
 
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Examples

How does it feel to be back in civilization after all those weeks in a tent?在帐篷里住了这么多星期,重返舒适的文明世界,感觉如何?
Rain had dampened the tent so we left it to dry in the afternoon sun.雨水打湿了帐篷,午后我们把它放到太阳底下晒。
Outside the tent I could hear the constant drone of insects.我能听到帐篷外面昆虫发出的持续不断的嗡嗡声。
We thought we'd insure against rain by putting a tent up where people could take shelter.我们想为了以防万一得支起一个防雨帐篷,这样大家就可躲雨了。
We pitched our tent in the shade.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Camping
backpack
bivvy
bivvy sack
boondocking
camp stove
campcraft
camper
camping ground
encamp
flysheet
groundcloth
lean-to
party tent
peg
peg out
pop-up tent
Primus stove
pup tent
sleeping bag
yurt
tent
verb[ T ]
uk /tent/ us /tent/
to make something form a shape that is raised in the middle, like a tent:
Cover the pan with aluminium foil that you have tented to allow for steam.
He tented his fingers and rested his chin on them.
to cover something with a tent or similar structure:
Crews were hurriedly tenting the red carpet.
The house has been tented and sprayed with insecticide.
After the concert, guests went into the garden which had been completely tented over for supper.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Patterns and shapes
amorphous
arabesque
argyle
asymmetrically
asymmetry
fishhook
flecked
formless
formlessly
fretted
saltire
scalloped
scissor
semilunaris
shapeable
vee
wavery
wavily
weave
willow pattern

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Covering and adding layers
Examples from literature

A tent is a temporary shelter you use when you go camping. 
At night, they partied together in their big tent, which they had reserved at the campsite. 
But what do you do if you get lost and do not have a tent? 
He didn’t see any avalanches, but one night, there was a really bad storm and his tent blew away! 
He slept in a tent. 
He waited in an ice-cold tent 3,800 meters up a mountain for seven hours a day – for seven weeks! 
Most left with just the clothes they were wearing and had to live in tents or other temporary shelters. 
Put the branches against a tree or near a tree in the shape of a tent. 
Someone suggested going back to the tent to start packing up. 
The forty-niners lived in camps and slept in tents. 
Then they started to put up tents and bring other useful things from home. 
They all lived in tents, but only one tent had a bath in it! 
Tonight, groups of tourists sleep in tents and wait for the sun to rise. 

tent | American Dictionary


tent
noun[ C ]
us/tent/
a movable shelter, usually made of a strong cloth supported by poles and held in position by ropes fixed to the ground:
We pitched our tents near the stream.

Examples of tent


tent
People and cars milled about us, while posters, caravans, tents, and stalls were crammed in everywhere.
They sat in the tent all day, fully clothed but very cold, waiting for a break in the weather.
In bad weather, convicts had to spend the night in nomad tents erected by the locals, in caravansaries, or in empty huts.
Women calypsonians are joining men in the calypso tent and are competing in the same cultural space and commercial marketplace.
In these two areas we searched for palms and other plants with large leaves that were modified into tents.
It is possible that the microclimatic conditions are so diverse in tropical forests that tent orientation does not influence the quality of the tent.
On the holidays, wherever he camped, one hundred tents would join him.
The implied actual law of motion (3) coincides therefore with the tent map dynamics (4).
We started to head to the wrong way to the side of the tent as we continued to make a detour avoiding the raven.
The user is treated to the carnival tents and exhibitions, each more grotesque and absurd than the last.
The trajectory of the turning point is dense for almost all tent maps.
Yet, even in low density tents, the rate of parasitism exceeded 60% only in a single case.
Travel time, tour, tents, and primary forest were less consistent determinants of tourist choice.
But every simulation of the tent map quickly stabilises on 0 whereas simulations of the logistic map seem erratic.
The hall was covered with a pyramidal roof resembling a tent + an appropriate architecture for a nomadic-warrior culture.
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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