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You can picture a roof as the top cover of a building — the part stretched over your head that keeps the rain, sun, and cold out. It is the highest layer, the lid of a space, and the thing that turns four walls into a place you can shelter inside.

可以想成一棟房子最上面的那層蓋子——撐在你頭頂上、把雨、太陽和寒冷擋在外面的部分。它是一個空間最高的那一層、像蓋子一…更多收起可以想成一棟房子最上面的那層蓋子——撐在你頭頂上、把雨、太陽和寒冷擋在外面的部分。它是一個空間最高的那一層、像蓋子一樣的東西，也正是它讓四面牆變成一個你能躲進去遮風避雨的地方。

原始詞典資料12 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

Roofname詞源 1

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    astronomynatural-sciencesA Chinese constellation located near Aquarius and Pegasus, one of the 28 lunar mansions and part of the larger Black Turtle.

Roofname詞源 2

  • 1

    A surname.

roofnoun詞源 1/ɹuːf/

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    architectureThe external covering at the top of a building.

    • The roof was blown off by the tornado.
    • 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
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    The top external level of a building.

    • Let's go up to the roof.
    • When this old world starts getting me down And people are just too much for me to face, I climb way up to the top of the stairs And all my cares just drift right into space On the roof, it's peaceful as can be And there, the world below can't bother me...
  • 3

    The upper part of a cavity.

    • The palate is the roof of the mouth.
    • As Bent pulled away to the far post, Agbonlahor opted to go it alone, motoring past Gary Caldwell before unleashing a shot into the roof of the net.
  • 4

    businessminingThe surface or bed of rock immediately overlying a bed of coal or a flat vein.

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    climbinghobbieslifestyleAn overhanging rock wall.

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    archaicslangA hat.

    • Tom thought his cap a very knowing affair, but confessed that he had a hat in his hat-box; which was accordingly at once extracted from the hind-boot, and Tom equipped in his go-to-meeting roof, as his new friend called it.

roofverb詞源 2/ɹuːf/

  • 1

    To cover or furnish with a roof.

    • A trench about ten feet deep was dug in the ground and roofed over with sticks and earth so as to form a dark tunnel.
  • 2

    To traverse buildings by walking or climbing across their roofs.

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    slangTo put into prison, to bird.

    • Did you see them, David? I mean, did you see them looking at me? I-I'm walking out of the court, and everybody was practically – yeah, they were gawking. […] I mean, Noah roofed me, I proved it, end of story.
    • I’m open, hype off the chronic I was smoking, feeling zooted That Brooklyn shit got me stupid I’m loose, kid – that’s what the overproof did What the ruck you looking at, son? You’ll get roofed, kid!
  • 4

    To shelter as if under a roof.

    • They reached him: the pieces of rock had roofed him over—he was without injury or scratch.
    • It built him softly round, it roofed him warmly over, it rested, all so firm, on selection.

資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。