Precinct

(noun.) a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes.

编辑:塞格雷

• Sir Leicester looks on at this invasion of the sacred precincts with an icy stare. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Hope and love had quitted that little tenement, for Robert seemed to have deserted its precincts. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• It must have been he whose men you have heard battling within the precincts of the temple. 埃德加·赖斯·巴勒斯. 火星战神.
• It was eleven o'clock when he came in, though he had not been further than the precincts of the garden. 托马斯·哈代. 还乡.
• It was a toilsome journey up-stairs to his room, and he re-entered its dark solitary precincts in unutterable misery. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 小杜丽.
• The shape standing before me had never crossed my eyes within the precincts of Thornfield Hall before; the height, the contour were new to me. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• We were set down at St. Bartholomew's, and entered the wretched precincts of the house of disease. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• But their curiosity was disappointed; for these outlets only looked upon the court of the castle, and the sound came from beyond its precincts. 沃尔特·司各特. 艾凡赫.
• Reading and writing had already long escaped from the temple precincts and the ranks of the court scribes. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• I had not vainly sought the storied precincts of Rome--I had discovered a medicine for my many and vital wounds. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.

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