I saw two children were playing in a cove. 我看到两个小孩正在一个小海湾里玩耍。
What a strange cove he is! 他这人真怪!
He nosed the canoe into the cove. 他把独木舟划进港湾。
cove
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a small inlet
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small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain
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Cove \Cove\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Coved} (k?vd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coving}.] (Arch.) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.
The mosques and other buildings of the Arabians are rounded into domes and coved roofs. --H. Swinburne.
{Coved ceiling}, a ceiling, the part of which next the wail is constructed in a cove.
{Coved vault}, a vault composed of four coves meeting in a central point, and therefore the reverse of a groined vault.
Cove \Cove\, v. t. [CF. F. couver, It. covare. See {Covey}.] To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs. [Obs.]
Not being able to cove or sit upon them [eggs], she [the female tortoise] bestoweth them in the gravel. --Holland.
Cove \Cove\ (k[=o]v), n. [AS. cofa room; akin to G. koben pigsty, orig., hut, Icel. kofi hut, and perh. to E. cobalt.] 1. A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.
Vessels which were in readiness for him within secret coves and nooks. --Holland.
2. A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain. [U.S.]
3. (Arch.) (a) A concave molding. (b) A member, whose section is a concave curve, used especially with regard to an inner roof or ceiling, as around a skylight.
Cove \Cove\, n. [A gypsy word, covo that man, covi that woman.] A boy or man of any age or station. [Slang]
There's a gentry cove here. --Wit's Recreations (1654).
Now, look to it, coves, that all the beef and drink Be not filched from us. --Mrs. Browning.
On Tuesday, he drew a crowd of thousands to a cove near Candlestick Park where he lay beached beside rocks bearing a no-trespassing sign.
Nonetheless, she contended the prosecution could prove its case based on witnesses who said they saw Peel near the Investor around the time of the killings and in the fishing vessel's skiff after the larger boat was found burning in a cove near Craig.
Luxury yachts bob at anchor in a picture-postcard cove near the channel separating Royale from St.Joseph, where sharks used to answer the 6 p.m. chapel bell tolling the burial at sea of another "mec," as the inmates called themselves.
Strangely it has no reef, but it is a magnificent curl of steep-sloping sand where the waves clap and race and the swimming is impeccable. Yet to my mind the beach to beat them all in Anguilla is Captain's Bay in a secluded cove in the far north-east.
He left behind a 30,000-square-foot clifftop estate overlooking a secluded cove beneath famed Diamond Head.
In fact, one of Bush's favorite tricks is to unnerve his guests by bringing his boat full throttle into the cove by his house, seeming to head straight toward a stone wall, and cutting his engines at the very last moment.
Five years after the 40-foot humpback's much publicized voyage through the bay to the Sacramento River, he drew a crowd of thousands to a cove near Candlestick Park, where he lay beached by rocks bearing a "No Trespassing" sign.