The prince lived in a large and beautiful castle. 王子住在一个美丽的大城堡里。
The castle walls are very thick. 城堡的墙很厚。
The castle has fallen into decay in the last100 years. 这座古堡在近100年里渐渐荒废了。
castle
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a large and stately mansion
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a large building formerly occupied by a ruler and fortified against attack
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(chess) the piece that can move any number of unoccupied squares in a direction parallel to the sides of the chessboard
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interchanging the positions of the king and a rook
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move the king two squares toward a rook and in the same move the rook to the square next past the king
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Castle \Cas"tle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Castled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Castling}.] (Chess) To move the castle to the square next to king, and then the king around the castle to the square next beyond it, for the purpose of covering the king.
Castle \Cas"tle\, n. [AS. castel, fr. L. castellum, dim. of castrum a fortified place, castle.] 1. A fortified residence, especially that of a prince or nobleman; a fortress.
The house of every one is to him castle and fortress, as well for his defense againts injury and violence, as for his repose. --Coke.
Our castle's strength Will laugh a siege to scorn. --Shak.
Note: Originally the medi[ae]val castle was a single strong tower or keep, with a palisaded inclosure around it and inferior buidings, such as stables and the like, and surrounded by a moat; then such a keep or donjon, with courtyards or baileys and accessory buildings of greater elaboration a great hall and a chapel, all surrounded by defensive walls and a moat, with a drawbridge, etc. Afterwards the name was retained by large dwellings that had formerly been fortresses, or by those which replaced ancient fortresses. A Donjon or Keep, an irregular building containing the dwelling of the lord and his family; B C Large round towers ferming part of the donjon and of the exterior; D Square tower, separating the two inner courts and forming part of the donjon; E Chapel, whose apse forms a half-round tower, F, on the exterior walls; G H Round towers on the exterior walls; K Postern gate, reached from outside by a removable fight of steps or inclined plane for hoisting in stores, and leading to a court, L (see small digagram) whose pavement is on a level with the sill of the postern, but below the level of the larger court, with which it communicates by a separately fortified gateway; M Turret, containing spiral stairway to all the stories of the great tower, B, and serving also as a station for signal fire, banner, etc.; N Turret with stairway for tower, C; O Echauguettes; P P P Battlemants consisting of merlons and crenels alternately, the merlons being pierced by loopholes; Q Q Machicolations (those at Q defend the postern K); R Outwork defending the approach, which is a road ascending the hill and passing under all four faces of the castle; S S Wall of the outer bailey. The road of approach enters the bailey at T and passes thence into the castle by the main entrance gateway (which is in the wall between, and defended by the towers, C H) and over two drawbridges and through fortified passages to the inner court.
2. Any strong, imposing, and stately mansion.
3. A small tower, as on a ship, or an elephant's back.
4. A piece, made to represent a castle, used in the game of chess; a rook.
{Castle in the air}, a visionary project; a baseless scheme; an air castle; -- sometimes called a {castle in Spain} (F. Ch[^a]teau en Espagne).
Syn: Fortress; fortification; citadel; stronghold. See {Fortress}.
The agent is Savills (031-226 6961) and the vendor is the Lochnaw Castle and Estate Trust, set up by an Australian branch of the family to restore the castle.
Students stroll across manicured castle grounds to classes in restored 13th-century buildings, all under the watchful and critical eye of the count, who lives in an 18th-century Baroque castle next door.
Students stroll across manicured castle grounds to classes in restored 13th-century buildings, all under the watchful and critical eye of the count, who lives in an 18th-century Baroque castle next door.
We passed the suspension bridge, now ageing, beneath the castle.
"See Candy's clothes, see Aaron's pad, "See Aaron and Candy's castle, make the neighbors mad.
An unknown Wild Thing haunts the castle's corridors. John Constable's script translates the frustrations of Peake's world without the compensations of his style.
Has the search for Pooh, Prince Charle's runaway Jack Russell, extended to Saltwood castle, home of diarist and former minister Alan Clark?
And why was Florence Quivar as Isolde's pal, Brangane, sending such worried messages into the midnight air from her castle window?
The "Scottish Castle" is a ferocious little picture, nearly all black, of a castle perched on a cliff above a thundering sea.
A salmon-colored castle stretches out on one side; a purplish forest on the other.
The storming of the castle, complete with self-generating monsters, and the climactic battle between the sorceresses could be trimmed.
The value of the castle and estate is estimated at $10 million.
"Dubcek to the castle!" the crowd in Prague yelled, referring to the president's residence.
Andrew, an avid amateur photographer, made a private visit to Carrickfergus last October to take pictures of a 12th-century castle.
Speakers also objected to the decision of Estonia's party and government to fly the Baltic state's old flag, which had long been illegal under Soviet rule, from the highest medieval castle tower in Tallinn, she said.
The holdings include a castle in France and a lavish compound in Vail, Colo.
The castle is now used as a school for U.S. Army noncommissioned officers.
Le Chateau du feu ('The castle of fire') was written later, after the holocaust, for a big manifestation in honour of the French Resistance.
Carlsson moved into his home near the royal castle, on orders of the police, who judged his terrace house in Stockholm suburb of Tyreso too difficult to guard.
Book and magazine publisher Enrico Vallecchi died Thursday in his castle on the outskirts of Florence at age 87.
The castle is now a ruin open to the public, and not available. A complete Victorian fort can be bought for Pounds 1m.
"One rugged Northwestern sand castle builder is worth a dozen East Coasters," he said.
Some British astronomers have criticized the decision to sell the castle in southern England, 21 miles northeast of Brighton in the county of East Sussex, and move the observatory.
Kunsthalle Bremen director Siegfried Salzmann says about 4,000 items went to a castle northwest of Berlin "to prevent damage by air attacks."
Mr. Ross, 64, has declined to comment on his purchase of castle "Olmeta" (Elm Grove).
As for the castle, he says, the airline needed an image "that a tourist could recognize."
Haiti says Duvalier used the money to buy jewelry, luxury cars, a castle near Paris and other property.
Its castle, Mr. Schaeffer says, will be "the most compelling piece of folk architecture ever built."
The top wine is the Tannat/Cabernet Ch de Sabazon, adjoining the fine, turreted 15th century castle.
Inside, the castle, named Dragon's Head, is draped in the eerie quiet of a tomb.