sill

英 [sɪl] 美[sɪl]

GRE低频词畅通词汇

复数: sills;

sill 门槛，窗台

来自古英语 syll,门槛，窗台，来自 Proto-Germanic*suli,木柱，木板，来自 PIE*swel,木柱，木板，词源同 sylvan,森林的。

sill: sill: [OE] Sill originally denoted the ‘foundation of a wall’. Not until the 15th century was it used for the ‘base of a window-frame’. It is related to German schwelle ‘threshold’ and possibly also to English sole ‘underside of the foot’.
sill (n.): Old English syll "beam, threshold, large timber serving as a foundation of a wall," from Proto-Germanic *suljo (cognates: Old Norse svill, Swedish syll, Danish syld "framework of a building," Middle Low German sull, Old High German swelli, German Schwelle "sill"), perhaps from PIE root *swel- (3) "post, board" (cognates: Greek selma "beam"). Meaning "lower horizontal part of a window opening" is recorded from early 15c.

1. A thin, glistening thread of moisture ran along the rough concrete sill.: 在粗糙不平的水泥窗台上有一条细细的发光水印。

2. The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers.: 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境.

3. The blind was drawn, but I found a rift at the sill.: 遮帘拉了下来, 但我在窗台上找到了一个缝隙.

4. Whitlock was perched on the sill of the room's only window.: 惠特洛克坐在房间里仅有的那扇窗户的边沿上。