mantel

来自mantle拼写变体，其原义为覆盖物，披风，斗篷，后引申词义壁炉架，壁炉台，因其形如一张披风而得名。

mantel (n.)

c. 1200, "short, loose, sleeveless cloak," variant of mantle (q.v.). Sense of "movable shelter for soldiers besieging a fort" is from 1520s. Meaning "timber or stone supporting masonry above a fireplace" first recorded 1510s, a shortened form of Middle English mantiltre "mantletree" (late 15c.).

1. On the mantel were photographs of a man and a woman.

壁炉架上面是一对男女的一些照片。

2. Even the mantel above the fire glowed white.

甚至炉火上方的壁炉台都泛着白光。

3. In Britain they call a mantel a chimneypiece.

英国人把“mantel”(壁炉架)称为“chimneypiece”.

4. He had thrust his chest out, supporting his shoulders against the mantel.

他挺起胸脯, 肩膊抵着壁炉架.

5. She was tired and her mind ticked away dully, mechanically, as the clock on the mantel.

她疲倦,她的心在迟钝地机械的跳动, 就像壁炉架上那座时钟似的.