The plural can be pronounced /ruːfs/ or /ruːvz/. 复数可以读作 /ruːfs/ 或 /ruːvz/
- N-COUNT 房顶;屋顶
The roof of a building is the covering on top of it that protects the people and things inside from the weather.
- ...a small stone cottage with a red slate roof...
有着红色石板房顶的小石屋 - A pail stood in one corner of the room to catch the drips where the roof leaked.
房间的一角放着一个提桶,以接住从屋顶漏下来的水滴。
- N-COUNT 顶篷;车顶;车篷
The roof of a car or other vehicle is the top part of it, which protects passengers or goods from the weather.
- The car rolled onto its roof, trapping him.
车翻了,把他困在了里面。
- N-COUNT 口腔顶部;上腭
The roof of your mouth is the highest part of the inside of your mouth.
- She clicked her tongue against the roof of her mouth.
她用舌头顶着上腭发出啧啧声。
- N-COUNT (洞穴、矿井等的)顶部
The roof of an underground space such as a cave or mine is the highest part of it.
- The cave roof collapsed.
洞顶坍塌了。
- PHRASE (价格、通货膨胀率等)猛增,飞涨
If the level of something such as the price of a product or the rate of inflation goes through the roof, it suddenly increases very rapidly indeed.
- Prices for Korean art have gone through the roof.
韩国艺术品的价格飞涨。
- PHRASE 怒气冲天;大发雷霆;暴跳如雷
If you hit the roof or go through the roof, you become very angry indeed, and usually show your anger by shouting at someone.
- Sergeant Long will hit the roof when I tell him you've gone off.
如果我告诉朗中士你已经走了,他会大发雷霆的。
- PHRASE 住处;家
If you have a roof over your head, you have somewhere to live.
- I am just thankful that we have a roof over our heads.
我们有地方住我就很感激了。
- PHRASE (在屋内)喧闹,喧嚣,大闹翻天
If a group of people inside a building raise the roof, they make a very loud noise, for example by singing or shouting.
- He raised the roof at the conference when he sang his own version of the socialist anthem, The Red Flag.
他演唱自己改编的社会主义赞歌《红旗颂》时,声音穿透了会场的屋顶。
- PHRASE 同在一个屋檐下;在同一栋大楼里
If a number of things or people are under one roof or under the same roof, they are in the same building.
- The firms intend to open either together under one roof or alongside each other in shopping malls...
这些公司想一起开在同一栋大楼里,或者彼此紧挨着开在大型购物中心里。 - While his relations with his mother were reasonably satisfactory, having her living under the same roof was a totally different matter!
虽然他和母亲的关系还算不错,但和她住在一起就完全是另外一回事了。
- PHRASE 在…的家里
If something happens under your roof, it happens in your home.
- Lionel has forbidden her ever to mention that name again under his roof.
莱昂内尔已经禁止她在他家里再提到这个名字。