shelter

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义
英 /ˈʃɛltə/    美 /ˈʃɛltəɹ/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Somewhere one can find protection.; A place where a person or animal may find protection from the elements (especially rain, storms, or cold) sometimes as a place to sleep (such as a cave). countable
    — The band of explorers found a shelter behind the waterfall, which they rested at for three days.
  2. Somewhere one can find protection.; A bare-bones above-ground structure meant to provide temporary cover from the elements; usually small and with no door to close. countable,usually
    — The detective kept them in view. He made his way casually along the inside of the shelter until he reached an open scuttle close to where the two men were standing talking. Eavesdropping was not a thing Larard would have practised from choice, but there were times when, in the public interest, he had to do it, and this was one of them.
  3. Somewhere one can find protection.; A place for protection from deadly conditions outside, including military assault; usually partly or fully underground. countable
    — tornado shelter
  4. Somewhere one can find protection.; A refuge, sanctuary, or (by metonymy) institution that provides temporary housing or a place to sleep for those in need or in danger. countable
    — (in compounds)
  5. Somewhere one can find protection.; A refuge, sanctuary, or (by metonymy) institution that provides temporary housing or a place to sleep for those in need or in danger.; An animal shelter. countable,often
    — I wish more people would look for pets at the shelter before turning to breeders!
  6. That which provides protection or cover. uncountable
    — Along with air, water, and food, shelter is often recognized as a human necessity.
  7. The state of being protected or shielded. abstract,uncountable
动词 v.
  1. To provide cover from damage or harassment; to shield; to protect. transitive
    — Those ruins sheltered once his sacred head.
  2. To take cover. intransitive
    — During the rainstorm, we sheltered under a tree.

词形变化

shelters plural shelters present,singular,third-person sheltering participle,present sheltered participle,past sheltered past

词汇关系

衍生词
Adirondack shelter air-raid shelter Anderson shelter animal shelter bomb shelter bus shelter cooling shelter enshelter fallout shelter fall-out shelter homeless shelter inshelter kill shelter Morrison shelter night shelter no-kill shelter rock shelter shelterable shelterage shelter belt shelterbelt sheltercraft shelter deck shelter dog shelteree shelterer shelter half shelter-half shelterin shelter in place shelter-in-place shelterless sheltermate sheltersome shelter tent shelterwood sheltery tax shelter tornado shelter typhoon shelter waiting shelter women's shelter
相关词
cover roof shed shield

词源

词源 1
From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English sċildtruma, sċyldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from sċyld, sċield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.
Doublet of sheltron (a kind of military formation), which is the more conservative of the two.
词源 2
From Middle English sheltron, sheldtrume (“roof or wall formed by locked shields”), from Old English sċildtruma, sċyldtruma (“a phalanx, company (of troops), a tortoise, a covering, shed, shelter”, literally “shield-troop”), from sċyld, sċield (“shield”) + truma (“a troop of soldiers”). Cognate with Scots schilthrum, schiltrum. More at shield, and Old English trymman (“to strengthen”), from trum (“strong, firm”) at trim.
Doublet of sheltron (a kind of military formation), which is the more conservative of the two.
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