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 attic ['ætik]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 阁楼, 顶楼

[医] 鼓室上隐窝


  1. He made the attic in the small house a reading room.
    他把小屋的阁楼当作阅读室。
  2. From his attic window he looked out over a wilderness of roofs.
    从他阁楼的窗子望出去，他看到一大片屋顶。
  3. We're a bit cramped for space in this attic.
    在这间阁楼里我们有点活动不开.


attic
[ noun ]
  1. floor consisting of open space at the top of a house just below roof; often used for storage

    2. <noun.artifact>
  2. the dialect of Ancient Greek spoken and written in Attica and Athens and Ionia

    3. <noun.communication>
  3. informal terms for a human head

    4. <noun.body>
  4. (architecture) a low wall at the top of the entablature; hides the roof

    5. <noun.artifact>
[ adj ]
  1. of or relating to Attica or its inhabitants or to the dialect spoken in Athens in classical times

    2. <adj.pert>
    Attic Greek


Attic \At"tic\, n. [In sense (a) from F. attique, orig. meaning
Attic. See {Attic}, a.]
1. (Arch.)
(a) A low story above the main order or orders of a
facade, in the classical styles; -- a term introduced
in the 17th century. Hence:
(b) A room or rooms behind that part of the exterior; all
the rooms immediately below the roof.

2. An Athenian; an Athenian author.


Attic \At"tic\, a. [L. Atticus, Gr. ?.]
Of or pertaining to Attica, in Greece, or to Athens, its
principal city; marked by such qualities as were
characteristic of the Athenians; classical; refined.

{Attic base} (Arch.), a peculiar form of molded base for a
column or pilaster, described by Vitruvius, applied under
the Roman Empire to the Ionic and Corinthian and ``Roman
Doric'' orders, and imitated by the architects of the
Renaissance.

{Attic faith}, inviolable faith.

{Attic purity}, special purity of language.

{Attic salt}, {Attic wit}, a poignant, delicate wit, peculiar
to the Athenians.

{Attic story}. See {Attic}, n.

{Attic style}, a style pure and elegant.

  1. A mother raccoon and her two babies who fell through a library ceiling were back in their attic nest Wednesday after spending a day browsing through the reference section.
  2. The Whitneys discovered the bats when Bill peeked into the attic and saw foot-high mounds of bat guano.
  3. The girl's decomposed body was removed from the attic.
  4. Picasso painted "Acrobat and Young Harlequin" in 1905 in his Paris attic studio at 13 rue Ravignon using gouache, an opaque watercolor easier to handle than oil paint.
  5. A man told police he used a trophy to beat a 15-year-old to death almost two years ago and hid her body in his grandmother's attic, authorities said.
  6. The girl and her family lived in an Amsterdam attic for two years before they were discovered and sent to concentration camps.
  7. I don't expect to." Ken Gibbons, 41, who crawled into the rafters of his attic when a 25-floot wall of water crashed into his home, said he sustained $300,000 in losses.
  8. Lord Sheffield hangs himself, abetted by his son, who inherits the title. The young Lord Sheffield dismisses the maid with whom we have seen him romping in the attic.
  9. The girl's mummified body was found the following December in an attic crawl space in Ms. Moore's house.
  10. To begin with, lock doors and windows, including the attic, basement and garage.
  11. An old demo tape of "There's a Tear in my Beer" was found in the attic of songwriter "Big Bill" Lister.
  12. Frantz says the best remedy for ridding an attic of bats is waiting until they're out for a night of feeding and then seal off points of entry and exit.
  13. But in 1986, a pest exterminator found the duffel bag full of letters in an attic in Raleigh, N.C.
  14. Off the stand, Ms. Britt told Maroc that she was taking cocaine during the time in January that young Darlwin was forced to live in the unheated attic apartment.
  15. Meanwhile, back at his chaotic home, his son and daughter and the neighbors' two boys accidentally find themselves in front of the machine, which has been activated when a baseball crashes through the attic window.
  16. Homeowners of the units with the fire-resistant treated plywood should not go up on the roof but instead check inside an attic for signs of decay, experts say.
  17. An elderly woman tossed a hand grenade into a garbage dump and announced, "Enough already, I can't keep this in the attic any more," authorities said.
  18. They asked me for help." Remarkably, she was able to hide 12 people for eight months, first in the basement and attic of a villa occupied by a German major, and then in a tunnel below.
  19. Latterly, he has built an atelier to produce high-quality, women's fashion clothing in the attic of the die factory and branched out into importing liqueurs, and consumer electronics.
  20. A self-described "bunch of frugal Yankees" donned protective suits emblazoned with the words "Pigeon Busters" and offered to shovel pigeon droppings out of the Town Hall attic for free.
  21. He said he and wife then noticed two hot spots on the roof, and thinking the fire had gotten to their attic, tey evacuated.
  22. In the summer, the attic was stifling.
  23. And I still have an attic full of Cabbage Patch dolls.' It couldn't go on like this, he thought.
  24. The three young children who were killed were trapped in their attic apartment by a fire that swept through their west side home before dawn, firefighters said.
  25. Early Monday morning, police found Li and Shang hiding in the attic of the five-story building.
  26. They were once used by grocery firms, and one of the buildings still has a wooden wheel in its attic, part of an old hand-hoisting system.
  27. The auction is the latest of many fund-raising events to help Darlwin Carlisle, 9, found in the attic apartment of an abandoned Gary house by a construction worker on Jan. 17.
  28. A rare collection of early 1940s recordings of native South Seas music which was found gathering dust in a widow's attic was presented Monday to the Library of Congress.
  29. "They could hear his muffled cry from the attic," Bull said. "He was saying, `I'm stuck!
  30. She went to the attic of the wood-frame house, where her son lived with his father, and found the bodies, Slamka said.
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